Trump’s Third Term Talk Defies Constitution and Tests Democracy
After President Trump said last year that he wanted to be a dictator for a day, he insisted that he was only joking. Now he is saying that he may…
‘0 to 1939 in 3 seconds’: Why Anti-Elon Musk Satire Is Flourishing in Britain
The mischievous posters began appearing all over London in the past two months. On the side of an East London bus stop, one of them shows Elon Musk, the world’s…
Opinion | The Roman Empire Loved by Elon Musk and Steve Bannon Never Existed
It’s a convenient intellectual starting place. An imminent political apocalypse naturally requires extreme solutions. The pressures on America, Mr. Anton has suggested, may necessitate the rise of a Caesar, whose…
Trump Says He’s ‘Not Joking’ About Seeking a Third Term in Defiance of Constitution
President Trump did not rule out seeking a third term in office on Sunday, telling NBC News that he was “not joking” about the possibility and suggesting there were “methods”…
How Trump Is Inspiring Wannabe Authoritarians Everywhere
When President Joseph R. Biden Jr. convened democracy summits at the White House in 2021 and 2023, he pointedly disinvited President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey, a man he had…
For Some Autocrats, Even Rigged Elections Can Be Too Much of a Threat
Over the last two decades, countries like Turkey, Hungary, Venezuela and India gave the world a lesson on how democracy can erode into “competitive authoritarianism” — a system in which…
El desafío de Trump a los tribunales supera el manual del autócrata
El conflicto cada vez más intenso del presidente Donald Trump con los tribunales federales es inusualmente agresivo en comparación con disputas similares en otros países, según los académicos. A diferencia…
In Turkey, Critics of Erdogan See Democracy Eroding After Istanbul Mayor’s Detention
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan entered this year facing a knot of political problems with little precedent in his two decades at the summit of power in Turkey. Voters were angry…
For Trump and Netanyahu, Similar Strategies With Similar Goals
If it wasn’t obvious that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel believes he has an ally in his battle against the country’s attorney general, its judges and even the head…
‘This Is Worse’: Trump’s Judicial Defiance Veers Beyond the Autocrat Playbook
President Trump’s intensifying conflict with the federal courts is unusually aggressive compared with similar disputes in other countries, according to scholars. Unlike leaders who subverted or restructured the courts, Mr.…