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Dictators
November 13, 2018
MagazineAndre Pagliarini
Why Brazilians Elected an Aspiring Dictator
Jair Bolsonaro won the presidency on a promise to bring back military rule.
March 13, 2017
MagazineJeet Heer
Horrible Histories
The perils of comparing Trump to twentieth-century dictators.
January 4, 2017
MagazineSean Williams
Rodrigo Duterte’s Army of Online Trolls
How authoritarian regimes are winning the social media wars.
October 6, 2014
Jonathan M. Katz
Jean-Claude Duvalier Is Dead, But He Will Haunt Haiti for Years to Come
March 3, 2014
Michael Ahn Paarlberg
The Pinochet Myth Is Alive and Well Among Pundits Who Write About Egypt
January 10, 2014
Nora Caplan-Bricker
Six Dictators' Favorite Books
September 24, 2013
Isaac Chotiner
Obama's U.N. Speech Reveals His Greatest Rhetorical Weakness
September 6, 2013
Nora Caplan-Bricker
Iran Tweets, and the World Gets Way Too Excited
August 27, 2013
Isaac Chotiner
Finally, a Dictator Does Something that Lanny Davis Cannot Tolerate
March 2, 1942
Upton Sinclair
The Man Within

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