Trump and like-minded demagogues are betting that they can take down the knowledge community and replace it with an authoritarian system. Yet Trump is unwittingly inducing dogged resistance to ...

Yet the rise in China of open technology, which relies on transparency and decentralisation, is awkward for an authoritarian ...

A soldier smiles from the hatch of an M1A2/Abrams tank on Constitution Avenue near the White House during the U.S. Army’s ...

At a White House meeting, presidents Nayib Bukele and Donald Trump exchanged praises and joked about mass incarceration.

While the media in Bangladesh has enjoyed some degree of freedom following the fall of the fascist government on 5 August, it is still not entirely free from the grip of authoritarian forces, BNP ...

Thousands flock to ‘No Kings’ protests across Diane Kolifrath of Forward leads the "No Kings" protests in Derry on Saturday afternoon. Nearly 1,000 people lined both sides of Crystal Avenue from East ...

Demonstrators crowded into parks and plazas across the U.S. Saturday to rally against President Donald Trump as officials ...

Some experts say democracy depends on politicians’ self restraint. But a system that survives only if leaders choose to respect its limits is not much of a system at all. What matters more is ...

especially since this system controls the media and collective consciousness. Therefore, the book points to a gap between society and the ruling party. It adds that Vietnam has succeeded in combining ...

Steven Levitsky is director of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American studies at Harvard and researches authoritarian governments. He talks with NPR about Trump's attacks on universities.

In recent days, we've been hearing from Harvard students and faculty. Today, Steven Levitsky joins me. Levitsky conducts research on authoritarian governments and leads the David Rockefeller Center ...