Tag: Autocracy
Is India an Autocracy? – The Atlantic
Last October, Indian authorities revived legal proceedings against the novelist and activist Arundhati Roy. In a case first registered against her in 2010, Roy stood accused of “provocative speech” that aroused “enmity between different groups” for having said that Kashmir was not an “integral” part of India. The charge carries a maximum sentence of seven years and kept her from traveling to Germany to deliver the opening address at the 2023 Munich Literature Festival.
The assault on expression, and on
A Second Trump Term Will Bring the US Closer to Autocracy
March 27, 2024
Oppression feels closer than ever in America today.
President Trump and President Putin shake hands during a joint news conference after their meeting in Helsinki, Finland.
(Reuters / Kevin Lamarque)
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We should already be talking about what it would be like, if Donald Trump were to win the 2024 election, to
Autocracy Is Winning – The Atlantic
The future of democracy may well be decided in a drab office building on the outskirts of Vilnius, alongside a highway crammed with impatient drivers heading out of town.
I met Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya there this spring, in a room that held a conference table, a whiteboard, and not much else. Her team—more than a dozen young journalists, bloggers, vloggers, and activists—was in the process of changing offices. But that wasn’t the only reason the space felt stale and perfunctory.