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

What I notice now, as a journalist working during the second Trump administration, is that for all the ways that America is ...

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A 72-year-old poet said he had shot and wounded Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico to defend "free culture" as he went on ...

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

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 ...

Professor and UVA alumnus Jason Johnson called the forced resignation of UVA President James Ryan “an internal coup.” ...

The slow authoritarian slide of Giorgia Meloni’s Italy It is just over two and a half years since Giorgia Meloni became Italy's prime minister. Her influence continues to grow among Europe's far-right ...

Why critics believe Trump's big win in Supreme Court is 'terrifying step towards authoritarianism' In simple terms, this ruling - from a Supreme Court weighted towards conservative judges - frees ...

This should stand as a warning to democracies that might be struggling in the standoff against authoritarian control backed by misplaced religions steeped in politics.

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