Dictators loom large in the cultural imagination of the 20th and 21st centuries. It’s easy to see why this would be the case, as these periods saw the rise and dominance of despots around the ...

Deposed Syrian president Bashar al-Assad joins a succession of autocratic Arab leaders ousted from power since the Arab Spring uprisings in 2011. His peers in Egypt, Libya, Tunisia and Yemen were ...

Ilya Yashin is a Russian opposition politician. In many countries around the world — from Russia and Iran to Venezuela and Cuba — dictators regularly draft new laws aimed at destroying ...