The competing systems of power in the United States are divided between oligarchy and autocracy. There are no other alternatives. Neither are pleasant. Each have peculiar and distasteful ...

When we think of premodern governance, we often default to an image of concentrated authority: imposing rulers presiding over intricately layered hierarchies—pharaohs, emperors, and kings whose power ...

Democracies under pressure: more and more countries are sliding into authoritarian systems of government and democratic systems are on the defensive, according to the latest Bertelsmann Stiftung ...