Schemes of national governance are complicated and subject to generalization, but for the sake of argument, let’s put “democracy” at one end of a spectrum and “autocracy” at the other and consider the ...

Historically, there has been the proverbial argument about whether the United States is a democracy or republic. The answer is the United States is both. But that question pales in comparison to the ...

On many levels, the re-election of Donald Trump looks like an aberration, a singular event that stands outside the expected flow of history. After all, America has never elected a convicted felon as ...

Readers respond to a Times editorial detailing the country’s slide toward autocracy. To the Editor: Re “Are We Losing Our Democracy?” (editorial, Nov. 2): The editorial board’s sweeping catalog of the ...

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The Resolute desk as President Donald Trump, center signs executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Monday, Aug. 25, 2025. The Resolute desk as President Donald ...

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.” Within weeks of their publication in July 1776, those words spread around the world. In August, a London newspaper reprinted ...

Professor Scheppele teaches sociology and international affairs at Princeton and lived and worked in Hungary for many years as a researcher at the Hungarian Constitutional Court. Mr. Eisen is a senior ...

Democracy experts agree that President Donald Trump is pushing America towards autocracy with little sign of stopping. The New York Times' Editorial Board launched a chilling “autocracy tracker” for ...

The citizens of the U.S. are in a cold civil war. There are the people who believe in the rule of law and the Constitution that has lasted 250 years and those who believe in wielding power without ...

"There's no way to sugarcoat it. There's no way to explain it away. Autocracy is on the march, and we now have a government in the United States that has thrown in its lot with the autocrats." "where ...