In her new book, "Autocracy Inc.," journalist Anne Applebaum argues that many of today's dictators collaborate to help keep one another in power. She joins the show to discuss this phenomenon.

Over the first months of the second Trump presidency, we have watched the guardrails of democracy come off rapidly in real time. Mass firings of civil servants, the dismissal of government watchdogs, ...

Since Donald Trump was elected again, I’ve feared one scenario above all others: that he’d call out the military against people protesting his mass deportations, putting America on the road to martial ...

Is the United States headed toward autocracy? That is a question prompted by a steady stream of executive orders seeking to consolidate power in the White House and upend long-held policies and norms.

While some who have lived their entire lives under democracy seem willing to forsake it, many who have experienced life under autocracy want out There is plenty to worry about in the global contest ...

MSNBC Political Analyst Molly Jong-Fast said Jimmy Kimmel’s brief suspension and return to ABC showed Americans are not ready to sit back and accept President Donald Trump’s “autocracy.” Jong-Fast ...

July 20, 2025 presents a fundamental issue facing our nation. Do we preserve our democracy or allow an autocracy to form? America is experiencing an unprecedented era of its history. I believe that ...

Is every democracy the same, or are they all different? This is the question that confronts us when we look at the results of Sunday’s local elections in Turkey. The ruling coalition’s senior party, ...

BIANNA GOLODRYGA, SENIOR GLOBAL AFFAIRS ANALYST: Well, next, in a momentous deal struck between Moscow and several western nations, the biggest prisoner swap since the Cold War happened last week.