Inside Syria’s “human slaughterhouse”
Bashar al-Assad tortured and mutilated his own people. Will the country he leaves behind ever recover?
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The Syrian crucible
Can a new Middle East be fashioned from the ruins of the Assad regime?
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The fall of Assad represents a revolution in the Middle East
The Syrian dictator was one of the region’s key powerbrokers. His regime’s sudden collapse has left a vacuum.
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Is Netanyahu cracking down on Palestinian Israelis?
The arrest of Intisar Hijazi is part of an alarming illiberal turn.
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Democracy begins with us
As a journalist in authoritarian China, I learned the value of community. As a parliamentary candidate in the UK, I…
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The new authoritarian personality
What is driving the resurgence of the libertarian far right?
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The West is emulating China
Instead of the People’s Republic becoming more liberal, we have become more authoritarian.
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Israel’s democratic unravelling
The judicial overhaul is just the first step in the far-right government’s plan to transform the country.
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Why the West will keep losing in Africa
Neocolonialism is giving birth to a wretched authoritarianism.
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David Davis: “The right to demonstrate includes the right to disrupt”
The former Brexit secretary on Britain’s authoritarian turn and why the UK will never leave the European Convention on Human…
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The end of the liberal delusion
At the turn of the century, Western leaders claimed progress was inevitable. Yet events have contradicted this “faith”.
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Macron’s interior minister signals his authoritarian shift
As the French president endures weekly protests, Gérald Darmanin has emerged as his most prominent law and order hard-liner.
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Greece is becoming an illiberal democracy
The government’s sinister framing of an attack on me is part of a climate of creeping authoritarianism.
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We are watching Israel build an authoritarian government in real time
Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition is eroding checks and balances on power.
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What Kim Jong Un really wants
North Korea’s leader has started his second decade in power with a slew of missile tests and revealed his young…
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Volodymyr Zelensky is wrong to ask the West to ban Russian tourists
There is a Russia that is not Putin. The West should seek to build bridges with these Russians, not cut…
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Viktor Orbán is using the war in Ukraine to entrench his power
The Hungarian leader’s declaration of a state of emergency will allow him to ignore inconvenient restrictions.
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The strange allure of the strongman leader
Authoritarians and autocrats continue to flourish despite a long parade of inadequacy. Can liberal democracy strike back?
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Vladimir Putin vows to undertake a “purification” of Russia
As the Russian president’s war on Ukraine enters its fourth week, he has begun to threaten his own citizens.
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“My flight out of Moscow was full of fleeing Russians”: Felix Light leaves Russia
The Moscow-based correspondent on his decision to depart the country amid war, media clampdown and rumours of martial law.
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