The phrase “death by a thousand cuts” has come to describe the accumulation of a number of seemingly minor actions that ...

Since his return to power in 2023, Prime Minister Robert Fico has implemented measures to exert control over the media in Slovakia. Since years, Fico expresses contempt for press freedom, frequently ...

Bratislava, Jun. 10, (dpa/GNA) – During a visit to Uzbekistan on Monday, Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico suggested that authoritarian states may be more economically efficient than democracies ...

On Sunday’s episode of The Excerpt podcast: A quick Google search reveals many articles, commentaries, social media posts, and scholarly debates on whether or not America is sliding into an ...

The mainstream American news media have failed as an institution to properly confront the country’s worsening democracy crisis in the Age of Trump. He is America’s first elected autocrat. His ...

A man has gone on trial for last year’s attempted assassination of Slovakia’s populist Prime Minister Robert Fico ...

Competitive-authoritarian governments further subvert democracy by shielding those who engage in criminal or antidemocratic behavior through captured referees and other impunity mechanisms.

This is member-exclusive content opinion Commentary Viktor Orbán’s authoritarianism is market-driven Hungarian PM’s “soft fascism” works for him By Zoltan Boka Aug. 5, 2022 | ...

At the moment when a gunman tried to kill Donald Trump, Slovakian prime minister Robert Fico was just returning to work after an assassination attempt on May 15. He was hit by four bullets and ...

The months that followed were no less hostile, with Fico referring to the media as "bloodthirsty bastards", NGO media and the opposition as "political pigs".

IDEAS What the Democrats can learn from Slovakia The country’s opposition party is fighting to slow down its own would-be authoritarian. And it is winning.