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"Without satire ... democracy doesn’t just weaken, it can disappear, and we cannot let that happen," the actor says.

What’s more, strongmen - and they are almost all men - are more prone to getting into fights because national virility is part of their image.

Strongmen know how effective intimidation can be when they’re consolidating their power, and many have advertised their own capacity for and/or proximity to political and sexual violence.

Authoritarianism expert Ruth Ben-Ghiat on Thursday issued a pointed warning in response to State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce’s latest praise of President Donald Trump. Ben-Ghiat, author of ...

Strongmen can also be seen across Asia. In China, memories of Tiananmen traumas and the horror of the Soviet collapse have pushed the Communist Party to keep a tight hold on dissent.

Trump’s embrace of strongmen is a very bad strategy. June 22, 2017. Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sissi, Saudi King Salman, first lady Melania Trump and President Trump.

In the very first sentence of “Strongmen,” its author, Ruth Ben-Ghiat, declares that her book “reflects a lifetime of thinking about authoritarian rulers.” This revelation of an extensive ...

For years, strongmen and autocrats had a novel weapon in their hunt for political enemies. They used Interpol, the world’s largest police organization, to reach across borders and grab them ...

STRONGMEN Mussolini to the Present By Ruth Ben-Ghiat. Ever since the 2016 election, observers like Timothy Snyder, Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt speculated that Donald Trump could undermine ...

Around the globe, strongman rulers–Trump among them– flaunt their macho qualities and sexual prowess while they limit women’s rights. Yet something historic is happening in America today ...