When Chilean soldiers broke into her home and dragged her partner from bed on a spring night in 1986, Alicia Lira was 37 ...

Whether a glass is half full or half empty is a matter of perspective. The same can be said about the half of Americans who oppose the idea of allowing presidents to rule unilaterally—an exercise of ...

The memory of state repression has divided Chilean society ahead of the presidential runoff on Sunday, in which the far-right ...

Earlier this week, following a CIA briefing of US senators regarding the killing of Washington Post writer Jamal Khashoggi, Lindsay Graham commented that “there’s not a smoking gun, there’s a smoking ...

BUENOS AIRES, March 24 (Reuters) - Thousands of Argentines took to the streets around the country on Sunday to commemorate the anniversary of the 1976 military coup that lasted eight years and led to ...

General Motors was the largest corporation in the United States on November 11, 1969, when one of its employees, retired Brazilian air force Col. Evaldo Herbert Sirin, walked into the local ...

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 ...

Half a century ago, Jean Marc von der Weid was strapped to a pole and bludgeoned with clubs by Brazilian security agents seeking information about his fellow leftist student leaders. His torturers ...

Listening to the Roundtable a few days ago I heard Vera Eccarius-Kelly explain that dictatorship is much worse than people understand. She couldn’t be more right, but I don’t know how many got her ...

A new film in Mexico opens this week about corruption and collusion with drug traffickers in Mexican politics. In 'The Perfect Dictatorship,' the plot of political corruption and media collusion is ...

CNN and MSNBC with a constant “The Trump Dictatorship” chyron on-screen. How Democracies Die authors Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt writing weekly columns in The New York Times, The Washington ...

Most of the business owners I’ve met don’t want to be jerks to their employees. They want to be fair and reasonable. But it is possible to go too far. Some business owners try so hard to be friends ...