Journal Editorial Report: The week's best and worst from Allysia Finley, Mene Ukueberuwa and Kim Strassel. Madison, Wis. On a scale of 1 to 10—1 being Christ, 10 being Hitler—where would we rank ...

In 2026 Nayib Bukele will consolidate his dictatorship. Still only in his early 40s, El Salvador’s president has secured indefinite re-election by rewriting the constitution, having captured the ...

Editor: The Random House College Dictionary defines Dic-ta-tor as 1. a person exercising absolute power, esp. one who assumed absolute control without the free consent of the people. 2. (In Ancient ...

Julius Caesar still casts a long shadow. We have a 12-month calendar — and leap year — thanks to Julius. July is named after him (though the salad isn’t). The words czar and kaiser, now mostly out of ...

Julius Caesar still casts a long shadow. We have a 12-month calendar — and leap year — thanks to Julius. July is named after him (though the salad isn’t). The words “czar” and “kaiser,” now mostly out ...

President Trump dropped an F-bomb Friday as he explained why Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro appears willing to give the US a stake in the South American nation’s oil and mineral wealth. “He’s ...

The U.S. is at war with drug cartels. The news should be cause for celebration, but some are trying to discredit and derail these efforts. According to the detractors, the Cartel of the Suns doesn’t ...

Pope Leo XIV, writing in the first major document of his pontificate, has denounced the “dictatorship” of economic inequality while insisting the Catholic Church is committed to supporting “rejected” ...

If the past is a foreign country, its name is surely Eritrea. Residents of Asmara, its capital, pootle around in ancient Fiat 500s, wistfully gliding past art-deco cinemas, ornate villas and grand ...

Timothy Snyder, the author or editor of 20 books, holds the inaugural chair in modern European history at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at the University of Toronto and is a ...

Recently, President Trump claimed he was not a dictator but said many Americans would like him to be. His statement about people wanting a dictatorship is shocking. However, unlike the citizens of ...

We are no longer heading toward a dictatorship. Under President Donald Trump, we are already there. Military patrols in U.S. cities, police raids on homes of the president’s critics, mass detentions ...