Friday, August 28, 2026

Tag: autocrats

When do autocrats give up?

Why was the opposition successful in Bangladesh and not in Venezuela?

COVID-19 and the end of autocrats

The outbreak of COVID-19 initially looked like a gift to autocrats around the world — until they botched it.

Robert Reich | The art of the autocrat

This is the work of a despot who wants corporate America (and everyone else) to kiss his derriere.

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The Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., site of the August 28 rally. Photo: Carol M. Highsmith, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Thousands rally at Lincoln Memorial to defend voting rights

Civil rights leaders say this is the first march since the Supreme Court gutted a core Voting Rights Act protection.
Microphones at a press podium. Photo: Bill Koplitz / FEMA, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Networks Were Ordered to Stop Filming Trump—and They Didn’t Protest the Illegal Censorship

"Cameras off the president now": The command was an astonishing call for press censorship on behalf of Trump and a direct violation of the First Amendment.
The U.S. Capitol. Photo: Architect of the Capitol, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Rep. LaMonica McIver isn’t just fighting for reelection — she’s fighting for freedom

A federal appeals court has cleared the way for a trial that could send the New Jersey congresswoman to prison over a 2025 clash with officers at an immigration detention center.
The Salem and Hope Creek nuclear plants in New Jersey, among the US reactors subject to NRC radiation exposure rules. Photo: Peretz Partensky / CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Nuclear regulator moves to drop 50-year-old radiation safety standard

The rule NRC officials are preparing to eliminate has required the nuclear industry to keep exposure below legal limits, not just under them.
The Strait of Hormuz, between Iran and Oman. Photo: CIA, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Pakistan’s “Fresh” Proposals to End Iran-U.S. Conflict

Opening the Strait of Hormuz has become the number one U.S. goal.