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Comparative Authoritarianism

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In authoritarianism , Trump
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On September 16, 2025
Source: The Economist, Global Democracy Index, 2025 I haven't been doing due diligence in following news in other countries, in large part because developments in the United States exhaust so much of my mental bandwidth. But I was dimly aware that, over in Türkiye (aka...
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NSA leadership ousted

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In Trump
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On April 4, 2025
Cover of the Commissar Vanishes, by David King. Image from Abe Books. So this happened: The head of the National Security Agency and U.S. Cyber Command was removed from his job on Thursday, according to the top Democrats on the congressional intelligence committees.... a U.S....
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Hong Kong

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In china , General
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On July 6, 2020
Peter Fitzgerald, amendments by Globe-trotter / CC BY (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0) We haven't blogged much about Hong Kong recently. The news, as readers probably now, has been pretty grim. On June 30, Beijing enacted a National Security Law that, in effect, ended any guarantee of Hong Kong's...
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This morning's tweets nicely encapsulate how the President of the United States is an authoritarian-minded demagogue. First, the President fed conspiracy theories designed to discredit an investigation into wrongdoing by his campaign. Trump already explicitly obstructed this investigation when he fired James Comey. Trump then...
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