List of Authoritarianism articles
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 All Hail Queen Banerjee
How the chief minister of the Indian state of West Bengal went from being the people’s savior to the people’s tyrant.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Is China Returning to the Madness of Mao’s Cultural Revolution?
There are disturbing similarities between the authoritarianism and thought control of one of the most awful periods of modern history and Xi's China today.
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Kushner_image1 Fear This Man
To spies, David Vincenzetti is a salesman. To tyrants, he is a savior. How the Italian mogul built a hacking empire.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Dictator of the Vatican
The “People’s Pope” is not trying to build an inclusive Catholic Church. He’s ruthlessly making it liberal.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 It’s Time to Abandon the Pursuit for Great Leaders
From Napoleon to Donald Trump, it has always been tempting to empower individuals who seem extraordinary. It has also always been a mistake.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Age of Disillusionment
Both the world’s liberal democracies and their authoritarian competitors are facing an uncertain year. Who will rise to the challenge?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 When Dictators Die
The world’s dictators are aging — but democrats shouldn’t be too quick to rejoice.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Sri Lanka: Back to the Future?
Sri Lanka's authoritarian former president is on the brink of a political resurgence. His electoral success would put a halt to the country's already troubled political reform process.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 It’s Not All About the Censorship
A veteran New Yorker correspondent on why he publishes his books in Mainland China.
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457979644 cropped Why Technology Hasn’t Delivered More Democracy
New technologies offer important tools for empowerment — yet democracy is stagnating. What’s up?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Ethiopia’s Economic Miracle Is Running Out of Steam
Why it’s time for East Africa’s big success story to change the way it does business.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Africa’s Singapore Dream
Why Rwanda's president styles himself as the heir to Lee Kuan Yew.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Lewd Anti-Lee Kuan Yew Video That Got a Singaporean Teenage Blogger Jailed
Amos Yee is evidence authoritarianism is alive and well in Singapore.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Strongman of Singapore
Lee Kuan Yew built a gleaming metropolis out of an ex-colonial backwater -- but it wasn't pretty.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Watching Top Gun in Tehran
Life in 1980s Iran was unbearable. And then Masoud the video-man came to call.
