As president, Donald Trump pretty much checks all the warning boxes for an autocrat. Last September Scientific American warned of Trump’s “nonsensical conspiracy fantasies,” that he “ignores the ...

KIPCHAK, Turkmenistan - Saparmurat Niyazov was buried Sunday near a golden-capped mosque he built and named for himself in this impoverished Central Asian nation, an elaborate funeral marking the last ...

Schemes of national governance are complicated and subject to generalization, but for the sake of argument, let’s put “democracy” at one end of a spectrum and “autocracy” at the other and consider the ...