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Rodrigo Duterte
April 3, 2020
Adam Weinstein
The Coronavirus Coups Are Upon Us
Emergency contagion measures are quickly eroding democracy worldwide.
March 24, 2020
Magazine
Aryeh Neier
The Imitation Games That Authoritarians Play
The subtlest way to undermine democracy is to fake it.
December 19, 2018
Magazine
Joel Simon
Why Were So Many Journalists Murdered in 2018?
To date, 34 of them were killed in retaliation for their work, nearly doubling last year's number.
January 26, 2018
Alex Shephard
The Case Against Facebook’s Neutrality
How the social network's laissez-faire ideology plunged it into crisis
November 14, 2017
Jeet Heer
Trump’s White Nationalist Foreign Policy
In Asia, the president makes friends with autocrats. In Europe, he uses soft power to energize the populist masses against democratic leaders.
May 26, 2017
Jeet Heer
Why Trump Is a Salesman With Autocrats and a Slumlord With Allies
On his first foreign trip, he charmed the Saudis and shamed NATO.
May 3, 2017
Jeet Heer
Is Trump Authoritarian or Incompetent? Yes.
John McCain and Corey Robin say the president's actions speak louder than his words. But this is a false distinction.
December 8, 2016
Alex Shephard
Rodrigo Duterte should work on his Trump impression, which is bad.
September 30, 2016
Sukjong Hong
Rodrigo Duterte wants to kill three million drug addicts because ... Hitler?
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