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.

The FBI search of a Washington Post reporter’s home on Jan. 14, 2026, was a rare and intimidating move by an administration focused on repressing criticism and dissent. In its story about the search ...

Houston, we have a problem … And I mean Houston literally and humorously. America today is pretty much an autocratic plutocracy. That is a technical political term: “a system of governance where ...

new video loaded: Are We Losing Our Democracy? transcript While the United States is not yet close to a full-on autocracy, the New York Times editorial board outlines some of the warning signs of ...

But Trump’s autocratic project continues apace thanks to a largely compliant Supreme Court that he packed with three justices in his first term. We were living under an authoritarian government in the ...

This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. On Sunday, April 12, Hungarians will go ...

Everything Donald Trump has said and done in his second term as president was lifted from the Autocracy for Dummies handbook he should have committed to memory after trying and failing on January 6, ...