autocracy
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While news organizations are in many ways top-down institutions—newsroom editors exercise an autocracy quite rare in other fields—in reality they are bottom-up, their product shaped by those who wield the digital pens.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2025
The Gbagbos protested against Houphouët-Boigny's autocracy, which lasted for 33 years, calling for multi-party democracy.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2025
Now the formally restless Susan Choi turns to social realism in her beguiling if baggy “Flashlight,“ mapping a family’s journey among political autocracy and personal pain, from Midwestern cornfields to the Pacific Rim.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2025
The death of most European monarchies after World War I did not signal the demise of lawless autocracy so much as its translation into the new form of nonhereditary dictatorships, Adolf Hitler’s first among them.
From Slate ● Feb. 21, 2025
Although his reign may have begun idealistically, Cahokia quickly became an autocracy; in an Ozymandiac extension of his ego, the supreme leader set in motion the construction projects.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
A common and mostly true dictum holds that democratic societies possess a capacity for self-criticism and self-correction that autocracies don’t.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 15, 2026
Though in fairness, the app has stood firm against other censorship orders from autocracies like Myanmar and Russia, the latter of which temporarily banned the app in 2018.
From Slate ● Aug. 28, 2024
When we picture the ways autocracies end and, more specifically, how dictators end, the greatest hits to mind.
From Salon ● Apr. 8, 2024
Will Tracy, the show’s creator and co-writer, said he read 20 books about autocracies, authoritarian leaders and totalitarian states to develop the six episodes.
From New York Times ● Mar. 15, 2024
The formidable autocracies of Egypt, Persia, and Syria, made playthings of the lives of millions of men; and the secret of their power lay in the supernatural light of their pseudo-divinity.
From Clerambault The Story of an Independent Spirit During the War by Romain Rolland
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