autocracy

It will demand careful attention to the cognitive toll of living under an absurd autocracy that claims to defend democracy while simultaneously dismantling it.

He has shown that autocracies redistribute more land than democracies and that in Colombia land reform “reduced guerrilla activity” in those areas that “threatened serious violence.”

Half measures only prolong conflicts and embolden autocracies.

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.

“We live in a strange country in which the government acts as though it’s an autocracy while many in civil society act as though we are still a democracy,” she said.