Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The United States is no longer a democracy. At least, that's the verdict of one nonprofit, the Center for Systemic Peace, which ...

Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman (D) says the repeated Democratic warnings that President Trump is trying to turn the United States into an "autocracy" are at odds with the hard-line stance Democratic ...

Over the first months of the second Trump presidency, we have watched the guardrails of democracy come off rapidly in real time. Mass firings of civil servants, the dismissal of government watchdogs, ...

Ahead of a Monday oral argument at the U.S. Supreme Court, as a 90-year-old firing protection precedent hangs in the balance, the federal appeals court for Washington, D.C., on the strength of a 2-1 ...

A key and crucial attribute of autocratic regimes is that they permit neither dissent nor contradiction. The notion of truth does not matter. In fact, myth and fantasy—as well as unpredictability and ...

In the recent election, for reasons that many are still debating, Americans elected a president with autocratic tendencies who has made threats against those who oppose him. Plans have been adopted to ...

As the United States heads toward the midterm elections, there are growing concerns among some political scientists that the country has moved even further along the path to some form of autocracy.