With no shock to anyone, Donald Trump is pushing his way onto the list of the authoritarian leaders of the 21st century. Does ...

Professor and authoritarianism scholar Ruth Ben-Ghiat joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about dictators and fascism. Why do people support dictators? How do dictators come to ...

President Donald Trump brushed off criticism that he is acting like a “dictator” by putting federal law enforcement in U.S. cities to control crime – but insisted that some people think the country ...

The year is 501 BC, and the Roman Republic is threatened by a powerful enemy. Following a procedure recognized in Roman law, Titus Larcius is appointed to be Rome's first dictator. To deal with that ...

A former Department of Homeland Security (DHS) official who served in the first Trump administration recalled private conversations in which President Trump admired the ability of foreign dictators to ...

Julius Caesar still casts a long shadow. We have a 12-month calendar — and leap year — thanks to Julius. July is named after him (though the salad isn’t). The words czar and kaiser, now mostly out of ...

A version of this story appeared in CNN’s What Matters newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. For the second day in a row, President Donald Trump has felt the need to assure ...

Victor Joecks is a columnist for the Las Vegas Review-Journal. Dictators crave power. President Donald Trump is using his power to give Americans more freedom. That’s a massive difference. Desperate ...

We are no longer heading toward a dictatorship. Under President Donald Trump, we are already there. Military patrols in U.S. cities, police raids on homes of the president’s critics, mass detentions ...

President Trump continues to let America know that he has no issue with being considered a dictator. In fact, he’s embracing it. Trump spent much of his Tuesday Cabinet meeting touting his federal ...