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A gate opened from a tall brick archway on a college campus
The World's Global Classroom
Professors fear creeping authoritarianism in academia amid Harvard fallout
In this March 21, 2011, file photo, a Syrian soldier steps out of the burned courthouse that was set on fire by anti-government protesters in the southern city of Daraa, Syria.
Civil workshopping: Part II
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses the media during a joint press statement as part of a meeting with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz at the chancellery in Berlin, Germany, Monday, May 2, 2022. 
Critical State
Democracy, interrupted: Part II
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro speaks during a ceremony marking the start of the judicial year at the Supreme Court in Caracas, Venezuela, Jan. 27, 2022.
Archetypes of autocracy: Part II
Chinese President Xi Jingping speaks during the opening session of the US-China Strategic and Economic Dialogues at Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing, Monday, June 6, 2016. 
Critical State
Archetypes of autocracy: Part I
A masked man in a suit stands in front of a line of people waiting for a COVID-19 vaccine.
COVID-19
Efficiency over privacy: How trust in the Chinese government helped contain the pandemic
A man walks along a street
Leaders
‘Putin is obsessed with the idea of legitimacy,’ opposition activist says of ‘sham’ referendum
A man in a suit stands in front of European flags
COVID-19
Emergency authoritarianism? Hungary’s Orbán uses coronavirus to seize more power
A police officer talks to a woman and child, all in face masks, outside a hotel
COVID-19
How ‘war’ with coronavirus could lead to lasting government overreach
Protesters wa;l through the streets of a city carrying Russian flags and large signs written in Russian.
Global Politics
Laws are chipping away at democracy around the world
A Russian soldier stands in the foreground of citizens celebrating, waving flags
Autocracies that look like democracies are a threat across the globe
Orban points his finger with red and white flags behind him.
Global Politics
How Viktor Orban degraded Hungary’s weak democracy