No dictator rises by accident - they follow a pattern. From manipulating fear to silencing opponents, the methods used by authoritarian leaders are chillingly predictable. This documentary reveals the ...

A version of this story appeared in CNN’s What Matters newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. For the second day in a row, President Donald Trump has felt the need to assure ...

After months of public solidarity and support for Maduro, Petro called the Venezuelan authoritarian leader a dictator for the first time.

President Donald Trump defended his use of the National Guard for policing in Washington, DC − and his threats to deploy troops to other cities − against criticism that he's acting like an ...

President Prabowo Subianto has centralised power and forged close ties with the military, raising concerns about autocratic ...

How can anyone seriously call President Trump a dictator when he has complied with every judicial injunction issued against him — even the ones that appear blatantly partisan? A true dictator would ...

Gov. JB Pritzker began the week with a rather extraordinary speech in Chicago, responding to Donald Trump’s apparent plans to deploy National Guard troops to public streets in the Midwest’s largest ...

If the U.S. democracy were to ever collapse, AI ranked the top 10 influential figures who would be responsible. And the list is scary. A Black man, who goes by Truth_Hasno_Party on Instagram, shared a ...

Whether Keir Starmer is deliberately trying to put Britain on the path to becoming an authoritarian state or not is irrelevant, the outcome is the same and it is deeply sinister. Nigel Farage is, ...

There are only five nations whose governments and economies resemble to any degree the communism preached by Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin, Josef Stalin and their disciples. They are China, Cuba, Laos, ...

The satirical display equates Trump with authoritarian leaders such as Putin, Xi, and Kim, a comparison that reflects ongoing global debates over his political style and rhetoric. By borrowing the ...