The competing systems of power in the United States are divided between oligarchy and autocracy. There are no other alternatives. Neither are pleasant. Each have peculiar and distasteful ...

A response to the letter writers who make claims that if Donald Trump is elected, the US will turn into an autocracy. Example: "If you vote for Donald Trump, you will get a dictator on the first day.

Increased political polarization makes a country more vulnerable to the schemes of a “closet autocrat” — an elected leader who implements authoritarian reforms in the disguise of advancing the ...