And evidence suggests that strongmen are becoming increasingly creative in how they wield tools of financial suppression. At fault is a body called the Financial Action Task Force (FATF).

From Malaysia to South Africa, strongmen have eventually been felled by popular revulsion at the scale of their corruption. These similarities hold some lessons.

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MAZAR-E SHARIF, Afghanistan — A massive portrait of a middle-aged man towers over the Ferris wheel and giant mushrooms at an amusement park here. At night, the image is bathed in an ethereal ...

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.

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

Strongmen Find New Ways to Abuse Interpol, Despite Years of Fixes The international police organization has toughened oversight of its protocols, which autocrats have used to pursue dissidents.

Discover the key differences between oligarchs and strongmen in the Trump era, with insights on wealth, power, and control mechanisms.

Bannon might give an additional thumbs-up to Ruth Ben-Ghiat’s Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present, an incisive survey of authoritarian leaders across the decades, and one that brings Trump into ...

Why do strongmen have bellies? There are a number of reasons for the physique of strongmen and it starts with training.

Strongmen like Eddie Hall might crush world records in the gym—but can they crush a massive eating challenge against Leah Shutkever? Watch as three titans clash in the Fast & Ravenous showdown!

By inviting foreign leaders like former Brazilian president Bolsonaro to his swearing-in, Trump is breaking another norm - and US political tradition.