| 单词 | despot |
| 例句 | The papar risked their lives—and lost them in untold droves-r- not in the pursuit of wealth or personal glory or to claim new lands in the name of any despot. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Some people wonder: Could another despot like Hitler rise to power on the shoulders of young people? Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z His quest to create a powerful first impression was good showmanship, but it also exposed the aesthetic despot residing within. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z When he did see the old despot he started back in honor, for Mr. P. was four feet long, his weight incalculable. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z But China’s connectedness eventually became a disadvantage, because a decision by one despot could and repeatedly did halt innovation. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z This convenient comparison is given extra poignancy by Beethoven’s reference to the French despot in his momentous third symphony, these days known as the Eroica but originally dubbed the Bonaparte. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Willoughby was rare—his preference to remain behind the scenes implied the absence of vast personal conceit, a trait essential for two-penny despots. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z All the time and money wasted on political posturing, the lives lost in wars, the populations abused by despots—all gone the moment the Thunderhead was handed power. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z One newspaper editor had sagely, if cynically, observed that “the usual custom is for the capital of new empires to be selected by the whim or caprice of a despot.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z He sur-vived going against the wishes of despots and dictators in some of the most dangerous and war-torn jungles in the world. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z America believes itself exceptional, the greatest and noblest nation ever to exist, a lone champion standing between the white city of democracy and the terrorists, despots, barbarians, and other enemies of civilization. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z There has never been one despot who could turn off the tap for all of Europe, as of China. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I was seventeen when Mussolini attacked Ethiopia, an invasion that spurred not only my hatred of that despot but of fascism in general. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z My new nurse is an unsmiling despot with a nursing degree. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z All men of talent, whether they be men of feeling or not; whether they be zealots, or aspirants, or despots—provided only they be sincere—have their sublime moments, when they subdue and rule. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z If my sister Rachel and Mr. William Shakespeare put their heads together to invent an extravagant despot, they couldn’t outdo Mobutu. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z American newspapers duly reported this, often making fun of these humorless despots, without mentioning an awkward truth: We’ve been hearing the identical rant from our own readers since essentially forever. A wonton abuse of power 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z Links to self-indulgent despots have driven up a few estimates for a Bonhams auction of 154 Chinese snuff bottles on Tuesday. Antiques: Asia Week Dealers Stress Provenance 2011-03-17T20:46:32Z Rather than urging Arab despots to ride out the whirlwind of revolution coming from Tunisia, it's high time you supported the Arab people's efforts to foster grassroots democracy. After Tunisia: Nouri Gana on Tunisia 2011-01-28T13:00:04Z However, in the movie’s key scene, the fearful peons decide that life under a despot might be preferable to death in a failed rebellion. Then and Now: Hollywood Remakes as Election-Year Players 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z Who threatens his opponent with prison and expresses admiration for despots in other lands? Dystopias are fantastic in fiction. But do you really want to live in one? 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z But even if the connection between rock stars and despots isn’t particularly novel, Waters made it in memorably chilling fashion. Concert review: Roger Waters, 'The Wall' at Wrigley Field 2012-06-09T06:30:00Z But while Hassan was often characterized as a brutal despot, his son, “M6,” is seen as an advocate of the poor and of social reform — and he’s just crazy about Tangier. T Magazine: The Last Casbah 2011-05-20T14:00:57Z He was both a romantic and a despot. Obsessed with Anne Boleyn 2012-06-18T22:01:00Z Logan, meanwhile, remains a mystery to all of them and us, since it was never fully explained how he became such a ferocious despot. "Succession" mourns the Roy "family way" in all its tragic glory 2023-05-22T04:00:00Z However, it’s wrong to posit that Kelly or any other journalists should shy away from interviewing influential madmen, despots or agents of disinformation. Megyn Kelly, NBC’s first lady of normalizing 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z There is something Leni Riefenstahl-esque about the vision of a despot authoritatively spouting unintelligible — either by design or accident — verbiage, but a little goes a long way, and the scene overstays its welcome. At Under the Radar, Family Histories Bubble Up With No Easy Answers 2023-01-18T05:00:00Z Trump understands this longing for the hard hand of the despot. Trump's Christian right worships power more than they worship God 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z The Dictator, which sees the Borat star play a despot from a fictional Middle Eastern country, took nearly £5 million in its first five days in cinemas. The Dictator top at UK box office 2012-05-23T15:15:40Z Now that the worst of the worst have finally made it to the screen, we're in a mini golden age of superviolent thrillers about megalomaniacal despots and their sleazy retinues, mass killers and deranged terrorists. The Devil's Double and more movies on the megalomaniacal 2011-08-05T23:12:02Z But a post-authoritarian regime held in place by a violent despot is not easily healed. "Vikings" kicks off its final season with its own "tender moment" in history 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z Some of these new methods were on display during the Arab Spring, when despots fell in Egypt, Tunisia and Libya. Books Of the Times: ‘The Dictator’s Learning Curve,’ by William J. Dobson 2012-06-10T20:56:47Z Forget about Hitler the political nihilist and despot, the warmonger and mass-murderer. Hitler and the Nazi Cult of Celebrity by Michael Munn ? review 2012-05-17T12:35:57Z I can only imagine he was both horrified and mordantly amused by the rise of Donald Trump, a cartoonish would-be despot who seemed to have been conjured out of Cohen’s darker visions. Leonard Cohen, Hillary Clinton and the future: Where does the Democratic Party go after this crushing defeat? 2016-11-12T05:00:00Z Make no mistake, though: Although "The Interview" portrays Kim Jong Un as a megalomaniacal despot who lives in luxury while his people starve, it is no polemic. Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg like that Kim Jong Un doesn't get the joke Comic Guerrilla Tries Sticking With the Script The latest movie from Sacha Baron Cohen is “The Dictator,” about an African despot who takes up residence in Brooklyn. Sacha Baron Cohen Stars in ?The Dictator? 2012-05-04T16:46:34Z The Governor is the ruling despot and head of security. The Walking Dead Watch: The Governor Commeth 2012-10-29T14:54:06Z Look one way and there’s Israel’s right wing carousing with European despots and Holocaust deniers while fanning racism at home. How the Great Leftist Thinkers of the 20th Century Contended With Zionism 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z Since then, a high percentage of black Oscar nominees and winners have played characters such as slaves, African despots, welfare recipients, dysfunctional mothers, drug-addicted musicians or drug-dealing cops. For blacks, mix of 'Help' emotions on Oscar night 2012-02-27T22:18:08Z Cousins opens with shots of today’s Times Square while observing that “the despots you were fascinated by are gaining ground.” ‘The Eyes of Orson Welles’ Review: An Idiosyncratic Look at an Enigmatic Master 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z No music, patience, empathy, no courage and no loyalty Except to brutal despots and hereditary royalty — I like the rich and powerful, and all authoritarians: Korea, Russia, China, Philippines and Saud vulgarians. Style Invitational Week 1361: 2020 vision: The year in preview 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z How it corrupted a medieval scholar turned despot. ‘The Spine of Night’ Review: Cosmic Forces at Work 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z Zadan might just know something I don't, and with a name that suggests an intergalactic despot, I wouldn't rule it out. The Beach Boys musical: wouldn't it be awful? 2010-10-04T14:09:00Z As was the case in Serbia under Milosevic, we are able to watch the role that comedy can play in unsettling a despot. Hitting Trump where it hurts: The satire troops take up comedy arms against Donald Trump 2017-02-11T05:00:00Z Seymour is cleareyed but gentle, ably redeeming a steely, resourceful woman from her decades as a “humorless despot.” Mad, Bad and Dangerous: The Legacy Left to Byron’s Wife and Daughter 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z The play asks who will replace deposed despots, and how might that shape history? Richard II ? review 2011-02-22T18:20:29Z Get down with the despots at Dictator Tunes, a website detailing the music loved by the world's most reviled men. This week's top five music links 2012-05-18T14:53:30Z It’s an enthrallingly sinister story involving the arrival at the Lamb house of a guru-like despot. Review | Listen up! Our critic picks three new audiobooks for your playlist. 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z Looking more widely, Scott suggested that half the world’s leaders were “idiots” and the other half “despots”. Ridley Scott on coronavirus: Trump is a 'nutcase' 2020-03-27T04:00:00Z With political parties duelling in the senate, presidents were more likely to be overthrown, assassinated or installed as despots rather than complete constitutionally mandated five-year terms. Wyclef Jean changes his tune over run for Haiti's toughest job 2010-07-27T19:23:00Z Had they lived in our own time, the charismatic despots of the 20th century would equally have posed, to Montaigne and La Boétie, the threat of passive obedience. All together now: Montaigne and the art of co-operation 2012-02-10T22:55:14Z But this consummate artist used his own vocal frailty to match the psychological journey of the despot he was playing. Sunken Garden; Nabucco; Mark Padmore & Graham Johnson – review 2013-04-20T23:08:33Z This memoir — at once fascinating, mystifying and distressing — tells the story of a father, Louis Didier, who rules his family with the brutality of a despot. A Memoir of a Childhood Crushed by a Despotic Father 2017-12-29T05:00:00Z She has interviewed Academy Award winners, presidential candidates and despots. Christiane Amanpour on journalism in the age of Trump: “It’s an unprecedented assault on the... 2018-09-09T04:00:00Z Their common nemesis is an Eastern European despot, a genocidal maniac with a scholarly mien and personal touch played, it seems almost redundant to point out, by Gary Oldman. Review: ‘The Hitman’s Bodyguard,’ With Samuel L. Jackson 2017-08-16T04:00:00Z All kingpins, he writes, are unaccountable despots whose power stems from an army of volatile young men with big guns. Single-handed 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z "It is about rendition, torture, the suspension of habeas corpus; people sent to prison for no reason by a powerful despot." Edinburgh international festival 2013 lineup announced 2013-03-12T12:27:16Z But when she interviews an old friend of the Marcoses who chortles about American support for despots, the movie — like his comment — becomes the tragedy it was meant to be. ‘The Kingmaker’ Review: The Power and Vainglory of Imelda Marcos 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z Once a supporter of Fidel Castro, he upset leftist fans by denouncing the Cuban leader as a despot. Mario Vargas Llosa surprised and delighted by Nobel prize win 2010-10-07T17:47:00Z Sanchez said he knows Guillen doesn't admire the Cuban despot and "it's all drama for nothing." Report: Group will boycott Marlins seeking Ozzie ouster 2012-04-09T08:35:00Z Drawing inspiration from Genghis Khan and other “ferocious despots,” Stephen Colbert donned a “big furry hat,” one of his favorite props, then declared: “I really feel like giving a press conference.” Jimmy Fallon (as Trump) Meets the Press 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z Her Prospera wields a magic staff like a mercurial despot and frequently appears covered with volcanic mud. Helen Mirren among the guests to laud Julie Taymor at Shakespeare gala 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z Now, Nadler was quoting Hamilton to call Trump a despot, an embarrassment, a “most deadly adversary” of government. Impeachment goes to college 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z Yet critics had waxed ecstatic over her portrait of a despot suddenly betrayed by age — a man, as Ms. Jackson described him, to whom “no one had said ‘no’ in his entire life.” Glenda Jackson on Quitting Parliament, Playing Lear and Returning to Broadway 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z Photograph: Tristram Kenton Not only despots and murderous conspiracy but prophecy and magical portents. Julius Caesar; The Physicists; Wah! Wah! Girls – review 2012-06-09T23:08:07Z The last thing he wanted to become as a creative artist was a musical ideologue or despot. A guide to György Ligeti's music 2012-08-27T12:11:24Z These despots elevated their sons to preserve their reigns, but there is nothing remotely appealing or enviable about their thuggish regimes or brutal falls. Television Review: The Power Brokers: Fathers, Sons, Dynasties 2011-03-31T20:00:05Z One 20th-century English jurist called the Magna Carta “the greatest constitutional document of all times — the foundation of the freedom of the individual against the arbitrary authority of the despot.” Last Chance: Magna Carta at the Morgan Library: Its Birth Was a Royal Pain 2010-05-21T22:51:00Z Clu seems more like an unfortunate Botox victim than a dastardly despot. Tron Review: Prepare for Deresolution 2010-12-16T23:00:00Z This despot’s death may be inspired by the Spanish Golden Age playwright Lope de Vega’s “Fuenteovejuna.” Theater Review: ?Massacre (Sing to Your Children)? at Rattlestick 2012-04-16T21:52:09Z The movie—slated for release later this year—stars Seth Rogen and James Franco, who attempt to assassinate North Korean leader Kim Jong Un after landing an interview with despot. Kim Jong Un Swears 'Merciless' Retaliation if New Seth Rogen Film Released 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z Ho Chi Minh, often romanticized as an amiable nationalist, was in fact a merciless despot who inflicted “systemic cruelties” on his people. The Disaster That Was the Vietnam War 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z Yet the idea of the great conductor as despot is merely a blip in the history of conducting. Mystery of the maestros: what are conductors for? 2012-06-01T21:55:13Z Former workers said that Mr. Meier — a winner of the Pritzker Prize, architecture’s top award, and the designer of notable buildings like the Getty Center in Los Angeles — ruled like a despot. Women Say Richard Meier’s Conduct Was Widely Known Yet Went Unchecked 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z “With Trump’s rhetoric, it would embolden despots and dictators who are looking for an excuse” to restrict press rights or endanger journalism. How the Committee to Protect Journalists broke with tradition to protest Trump 2016-10-16T04:00:00Z Say what you will about Polanski, as long as it’s not “memory was a despot that lived in his house and banged his pots and pans.” It’s ‘Chinatown,’ Jake. On Second Thought, Don’t Forget It. 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z But critics continued to ask why the guest list had room for despots while former British Prime Ministers Gordon Brown and Tony Blair, both from the Labour Party, were left out. Britain revokes wedding invite for Syria envoy 2011-04-28T12:27:19Z "Emperor" is the story of a global despot who enlists an old ally, Death, in a campaign to rid paradise of humans. Music of Remembrance to stage Viktor Ullmann's 'Emperor of Atlantis' 2012-11-15T22:28:03Z Everyone would have royal blood in the line, but everyone would also have a connection to ragtag rebels who overthrew some despot. Television: Is Your Family Tree Just a Shrub? 2010-03-03T23:04:00Z He remains frustrated that despots and terrorists are killed instead of tried in criminal courts to deter further aggression. The improbable story of the man who won history’s ‘biggest murder trial’ at Nuremberg 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z None of these degrees prevented him from championing benightedness or learning from the failures of despots past. Bidding a final, poignant adieu to "Jeopardy!" host Alex Trebek amidst our nation's chaos 2021-01-09T05:00:00Z And Iraq, a decade after one of its own despots was removed by a U.S. invasion, is falling into chaos. REVIEW: FX's Tyrant Is Its Own Downfall 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z If there’s a villain in this book it’s “our implacable foe” Vladimir Putin, an “audacious despot” who gets a steady flagellation over the course of two chapters. In ‘The Restless Wave,’ John McCain Says America Is Still Exceptional 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z In it, she controls a US army helicopter waging war on a middle eastern country ruled by an insane moustachioed despot. Fatima Al Qadiri uses the sounds of videogames to evoke the horrors of war 2012-11-24T00:02:00Z Lopez is far from the first celebrity to make an ethically questionable appearance at a despot’s private party. J. Lo in Turkmenistan: How Celebs End Up Performing for Tyrants 2013-07-01T17:00:51Z He often read infuriating news items to me, grinning while I stomped around, haranguing the offending bureaucrat or despot or whatever. My Marriage: A Course in Desert Survival 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z In another, he sounds delightfully cranky as he acquiesces to life with a telephone and its impositions: “I prostrated myself whenever the ringing/ of that horrid despot demanded/ my attention.” Newly discovered works by Pablo Neruda and other best poetry this month 2016-04-26T04:00:00Z “The Treasure” features an aspiring Aztec despot who murders an American envoy, the hijacking of a plane carrying the United Nations Secretary-General and soldiers from ancient Rome looting the Library of Alexandria. Clive Cussler, adventure novelist, dies at 88 in Arizona 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z Then, as now, their followers filled the spaces left by despots reeling in the face of Europe’s technological, military and economic advances. Powers of persuasion 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z My dad ruled our house as if he were an ancient despot. The sex-talking therapist I went to as a teen: “Do you want to learn how to be a woman, not a scared little girl?” 2016-10-16T04:00:00Z Jones writes: “Walt’s journey from family man to narcotics despot is not unlike the APD’s submission to postures of hostility and antagonism.” What real lawyers think about Breaking Bad – and why it should be taught in class 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z Over the centuries, depending on the prevailing political winds, Confucius has been revered in his homeland as social visionary or despised as moral despot. Art Review: At China Institute, Envisioning Confucius, an Abstraction 2010-03-25T22:43:00Z He left Zaire, after performing on the occasion of the Ali-Foreman “Rumble in the Jungle” prizefight, rather than receive a bag of diamonds offered by the despot in charge of that nation. James McBride’s ‘Kill ’Em and Leave’ 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z So he travels thousands of miles, to a desert, to wait for the approval of a despot. Dave Eggers: 'We tend to look everywhere but the mirror' – interview 2013-01-26T21:00:01Z Apparently the news of Russia invading Ukraine moved her read an open letter directed toward…the violent despot responsible for starting this war. Dear Hollywood: In times of international crisis, speechlessness is always preferable to stupidity 2022-02-26T05:00:00Z He also dispatches the facile notion that despots like China’s Xi Jinping do better than democratic leaders. Fareed Zakaria Looks at Life After the Pandemic 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z Eugene O’Neill’s drama about a Pullman porter who becomes an island despot finishes its run. What’s New in NYC Theater 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z Lording over this muddy fiefdom like a visionary despot is Brewce Martin, a 40-year-old pro skater whose problems with anger management pushed him, at an early age, to the margins of society. 'Skatopia: 88 Acres of Anarchy': How a misfit refuge rolls 2012-11-15T21:33:05Z Given the mass death and devastation from an atomic strike, surely only a desperate despot would even consider such a strike. America has stopped worrying, loves the bomb 2013-03-19T18:50:00Z But together they give the measure of this enlightened despot, abundantly energetic in her appetites, sexual, social and political, and a colossal presence in 18th-century Europe. The 10 best portraits of queens 2012-06-02T23:06:01Z "Tell," which premiered in 1829, is filled with noble, impassioned music, befitting the Friedrich Schiller play about the unification of the Swiss people who rise up under Tell's leadership to overthrow the Austrian despot Gessler. Review:"Williams Tell" celebrates all things Swiss 2010-12-10T12:08:00Z Ms. Doria, who died on July 27, at 90, was the longtime director of the Met’s children’s chorus, by all accounts equal parts den mother, wrangler and benevolent despot. Elena Doria, Beloved and ‘Strict as Hell’ Director of Met Children’s Chorus, Dies at 90 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z The South Bank, for example, tends to bear the brunt of most of this devastation, which leads me to believe that most of these egomaniacal despots responsible are simply a bit narky about street entertainers. Film-makers, what has London ever done to you? 2013-04-25T10:48:31Z The distinct Afro-Cuban rhythms are directly linked to evolution of Rock n' Roll, It wasn't born from the fetid loins of despots. Havana’s Symphony of Sound 2018-03-12T04:00:00Z Together, the parts of Ms. Backström’s show serve as powerful analogues for our own era of refugees and migrants moving across a globe ravaged by despots, war and ecological disaster. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z Intimidation is only one tool in the despot’s kit. ‘The Walking Dead’ Season 7, Episode 7: Dictatorship 101 2016-12-04T05:00:00Z In the film, Kim is portrayed as simultaneously a megalomaniacal despot and a vulnerable, overgrown man-child with daddy issues who fawns over Franco's Dave Skylark. 'The Interview's' Kim Jong Un actor, Randall Park, knew it was 'insane' 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z The artist turns Henry from a despot with world-historical importance into an average man with an outsize ego. 4 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2020-12-30T05:00:00Z Making Miranda the despot of her tiny kingdom keeps “Haters” from feeling downright cruel to her, but it’s still harsh. Review: In ‘Haters Back Off!’ a Cringe-Worthy Star Is Born 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z The rebuilding of Ground Zero is an immense public building project, consuming billions of public dollars, pushed by mayors and governors, of a scale that would impress an old-fashioned socialist despot. Memories at Ground Zero 2011-07-30T23:03:01Z And so the courtly lover turns despot, and finally, executioner. Obsessed with Anne Boleyn 2012-06-18T22:01:00Z The tracks on “Yeezus” are raw and bumpy, with the arbitrary whims of a studio despot. Music Review: ‘Yeezus,’ Kanye West’s Raw and Jolting New Album 2013-06-16T18:25:47Z Gigliola is the castoff wife of a local despot, and her ruined body is a reminder that women here are in continual danger of condemnation — by friends, family and society. Elena Ferrante’s ‘Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay’ 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z And it’s even better to be rich with zero sense of consequence or thought about the global consequences of supporting a despot regardless of his actions. How One America News sells an altered reality 2019-10-05T04:00:00Z Nuttall raises a “paradox of democracy” posited by philosopher Karl Popper: “What is one to do when the demos, the people, freely decides to resign its power to a despot?” The theater of Trump: What Shakespeare can teach us about the Donald 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z Your depiction goes against the prevalent image of Cromwell as a ruthless despot. Hilary Mantel talks about her Cromwell saga coming to screen and stage 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z She also said that she was reminded of "despots, you know Stalin and Hitler." Cher insults Trump, with gusto, at Clinton fundraiser 2016-08-23T04:00:00Z Is a despot fussing that a nuclear warhead is round at the tip when he wanted it to be pointy funny? 'The Dictator' uses its power for laughs 2012-05-14T22:41:03Z He is a despot and the leader of the Saviors, a group that runs a protection racket, offering small communities security in exchange for supplies. 'The Walking Dead': Who Is Negan? 2015-11-30T05:00:00Z He is a brutish despot who is about to kill at least one of our favorite characters and rules much of the countryside through violence and extortion. ‘The Walking Dead’: 7 Questions for the Season 7 Premiere 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z Like Fela, Femi aimed his political ire at African corruption, his songs criticizing despots and dictators for destroying the continent's potential. At Metro Femi Kuti carries on his father's music and mission 2011-05-01T15:02:00Z “I love this,” Ms. Abramovic announced beforehand, as she paced the large party tent outside the museum’s downtown building, referring to her role as benevolent despot. Marina Abramovic?s Crossover Moment 2011-11-18T23:58:05Z It’s the one long preferred by despots and autocrats the world over. Fear and Fumbling: Brexit, Trump and the Nationalist Surge 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z We’re backstage with the star, Katniss, as she tries to rally the rebels in the other Districts against the fatherly despot Snow. Review: To Shill a Mockingjay - Part 1 2014-11-12T05:00:00Z We know they're brutal despots, but are they any good as writers? Dictator-lit: Saddam Hussein tortured metaphors, too 2011-03-31T15:17:36Z "Citizen's Arrest is bonkers to begin with, and it shouldn't be used by aspirational despots to go after perceived enemies. We must get rid of it once and for all," he wrote. "This is an actual incitement": Legal experts alarmed after Trump pushes "citizen's arrest" 2023-11-14T05:00:00Z Yet nearly half of the electorate supports this would-be despot, polls show, including a CNN poll released Tuesday. Opinion: Trump promises vengeance and power grabs if he wins in 2024. Here's the plan. 2023-11-09T05:00:00Z No, the coverage has been largely about Biden's "negatives" — his age and supposed unpopularity — not about the other candidate, who is also old and obviously unhealthy, as well as being a sociopath and would-be despot. Calm down, everybody: An ugly election is coming — but younger voters will save us 2023-10-01T04:00:00Z He is facing charges because he's a dangerous would-be despot. Donald Trump's thrill ride is nearly over — but the media refuses to let go 2023-09-28T04:00:00Z The similarities expose the reality: information control is a tool of despots, and it's ultimately rarely effective. DeSantis' weaponization of education turns deadly 2023-09-18T04:00:00Z That is the sad history of people democratically electing such despots; they don't realize the level of malignant psychology behind the populist face. How Trump weaponizes his own fears 2023-09-11T04:00:00Z Machiavelli saw this as the necessary performance of the lion role that the despot must always be ready to enact. Don't look away: It's a mistake to ignore Donald Trump's interview with Tucker Carlson 2023-08-30T04:00:00Z From the Arab Spring and the Palestinian freedom fight to feminism and class struggles, rap music is a popular medium for calls to action, as well as call-outs of despots and colonizers. Hip-hop and justice: Culture carries the spirit of protest, 50 years and counting 2023-08-09T04:00:00Z This type of speech is not an invention by Trump; it has always been the style adopted by despots to affect the polity. How Trump's speech is warping MAGA minds 2023-07-18T04:00:00Z In other words, he isn't into empathy or leadership, unless it involves being a racist despot. Joe Biden says the right things — in Lithuania. But does that even count? 2023-07-13T04:00:00Z He doesn't seem to consider dictators and despots as his special friends which is a nice change. Biden's old age is key to his success 2023-07-07T04:00:00Z The Committed to America “Strength” ad, which will run on Fox News and online in Iowa, dings Mr. Trump for being an apologist for Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean despot Kim Jong-un. Pro-Pence ad knocks Trump for embracing Putin, Kim 2023-07-06T04:00:00Z The Venezuelan victims of the DeSantis administration's deception are fleeing persecution by Maduro, a left-wing despot who embraces Marxist ideology to support suppression of free speech and the imprisonment and torture of political opponents. Ron DeSantis' biggest political stunt comes back to bite him where it hurts 2023-07-01T04:00:00Z In the best way possible, by showing him and other despots, within and beyond Russia, that aggression against democracies never pays. An endgame for Ukraine | Bret Stephens 2023-06-08T04:00:00Z Although they maintained the absolute jurisdiction of their rule, enlightened despots differentiated themselves from other monarchs by claiming they received their power from the social contract to rule in the best interest of their subjects. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z After ordering her murder, however, Nero proved a vicious despot who used the Praetorian Guard to intimidate and execute his critics in the Senate. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z Even Amnesty International, the human rights watchdog best known for standing up to despots and criminal regimes, has issued warnings about the dangers of traveling to the U.S. Mass shootings and gun violence in U.S. could damage 2026 World Cup bottom line 2023-05-16T04:00:00Z His ninth-grade civics teacher, Mrs. Ellison, who had flunked his mom and ran her class like a totalitarian despot, also taught him the value of freedom of speech, he said. Killer Mike goes off: 'Right now, in this country, your freedom of speech is at risk' 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z Beijing’s claim to practice what it calls “whole-process democracy” is appealing to other dictators and despots who don’t want to acknowledge they are holding on to power simply through brute force. Opinion | Why Xi and Putin pretend they run democracies 2023-03-23T04:00:00Z Commonly known as Catherine the Great, Empress Catherine II of Russia was an “enlightened despot” whose rule remained authoritarian even as she claimed to derive her political power from the social contract. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z But police searches and arrests cannot suppress an idea — or the desire of people to live free of the despots ruling Russia and Belarus. Opinion | The despots of Russia and Belarus cannot jail freedom 2023-03-22T04:00:00Z Absent pushback, every despot and dictator will soon be trying to buy this new, dangerous way to control what their people do, say or think. Opinion | U.S. companies must stop enabling mass DNA collection in Tibet 2023-03-19T04:00:00Z The warrant could affect Putin’s ability to travel overseas and adds his name to a notorious list of despots and dictators. Your Monday Briefing: Putin and Xi to Meet in Moscow 2023-03-19T04:00:00Z Twenty years ago, President George W. Bush ordered the invasion of Iraq, toppling the despot Saddam Hussein and fomenting a kind of hell that Iraq is still grappling with today. Column: The 20th anniversary of the Iraq war also marks a colossal failure of the mainstream media 2023-03-19T04:00:00Z Although the nature of authoritarian rule may seem at odds with the preservation of natural rights and the social contract, many philosophers developed political models that appealed to enlightened despots. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z The arrest warrant adds Mr. Putin’s name to a notorious list of despots and dictators accused of humanity’s worst atrocities. Russia Signals It Will Take More Ukrainian Children, a Crime in Progress 2023-03-18T04:00:00Z Why is it so hard to bring brutal despots to justice? Review | A stolen South Seas treasure that helps reveal colonial crimes 2023-03-08T05:00:00Z ‘Resonates in this moment,’ says actor who plays Roman despot. Lots of Russian soldiers want to surrender. Ukraine makes it easier with a high-tech hotline 2023-03-07T05:00:00Z Dressed as a despot with robe and crown, Mr. Gutfeld is the centerpiece of an ad to air during the Super Bowl on Sunday. Gutfeld to boast his TV crown in Super Bowl ad 2023-02-09T05:00:00Z Khashoggi’s journalism, including his criticism of the Saudi despot, was in the best tradition of American values of free expression, shining a light on dark corners of the world. Opinion | Mike Pompeo’s revolting embrace of MBS after the Khashoggi murder 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z “The president must turn to American-made energy and jobs rather than dictators and despots to fix the energy crisis he created on his first day in office.” Biden axing Keystone XL pipeline cost thousands of jobs, billions of dollars, Energy Department says 2023-01-06T05:00:00Z There is something desperately boring about despots and plutocrats. Opinion | Not another column about Elon Musk 2022-12-17T05:00:00Z Now in custody, the despot would finally have to answer for his crimes. Review | Why is it so hard to bring brutal despots to justice? 2022-12-16T05:00:00Z Overseas, one can only cheer the fact that Iran’s despots are finally living in fear of the magnificent women taking off their hijabs and burning them in the streets. Handing the matches to the arsonists within 2022-12-14T05:00:00Z “Whenever you trade an innocent American for a guilty Russian, it’s an incentive to other despots to essentially grab an American and use them as a bargaining chip,” Mr. Schiff said. Adam Schiff: Putin’s intent was to ‘roil the American body politic’ with Griner prisoner swap 2022-12-11T05:00:00Z It's the ultimate monument to all of the Americans who have given their lives to defeat self-serving despots that abused their power and trampled on fundamental rights. GOP silence on Trump's call to cancel Constitution shows "full embrace of fascism," warns House Dem 2022-12-05T05:00:00Z Does the executive branch understand that its position in this case will only encourage future despots to believe they are exempt from civil judicial actions involving murder? Opinion | MBS should not be granted immunity 2022-11-21T05:00:00Z Under the law of universal jurisdiction, he sought the former despot’s extradition to Belgium for trial. Review | Why is it so hard to bring brutal despots to justice? 2022-12-16T05:00:00Z And just because it is clearly in the right in this conflict, fighting the good fight against a despot, does not magically transform Kyiv into a shining city on a hill. Maybe the lunatics are right about Ukraine: Defeating Putin isn't worth nuclear war 2022-11-13T05:00:00Z The accused plotters appeared to be likely acting in part, the authors suggested, on language from then-president Donald J. Trump portraying Ms. Whitmer as a runaway despot and urging followers to “liberate Michigan.” Troubled Loner or Radical Recruit? In Political Violence, It’s Often Hard to Say 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z The flaw in the argument, obviously, was what might happen if the benevolent despot turned out to be not so benevolent or enlightened. Column: Meta and Twitter show the drawbacks of giving self-satisfied billionaires too much power 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z The two countries have had no diplomatic relations since 1980, when the Islamic Revolution toppled the shah, a U.S.-supported despot widely despised by his own people. Oil, Russia and reckoning: OPEC's price hike as a history lesson 2022-10-18T04:00:00Z But the former despot refused to recognize the chambers’ jurisdiction and declared that his initial forced presence in court was a kidnapping. Review | Why is it so hard to bring brutal despots to justice? 2022-12-16T05:00:00Z He publicly admires despots, tyrants and other authoritarian leaders who kill their enemies and take away the rights of anyone who oppose them. Political warlord Trump now targets his enemies — and Mitch is first on the list 2022-10-07T04:00:00Z He was simply providing security for protesters and awaiting orders from President Donald Trump — waiting for Trump to give the go ahead to battle fellow Americans in service to him, a would-be despot. Perspective | Stewart Rhodes romanticized deadly force and called it patriotism 2022-10-04T04:00:00Z Today Putin is this bloody-handed despot; he's going to be either a prisoner in a war crimes tribunal or more likely dead at some point. Putin's doom: Russia expert Mark Galeotti on how a once-feared leader threw it all away 2022-09-26T04:00:00Z The present generation rules like a clumsy despot over the generations to come. Perspective | Want politics to be better? Focus on future generations. 2022-09-16T04:00:00Z Other despots convicted of crimes against humanity, even after years of evading justice, never spend a day in prison. Review | Why is it so hard to bring brutal despots to justice? 2022-12-16T05:00:00Z “These despots are using the Queen’s state funeral as an opportunity to whitewash their reputations.” Invitation list spurs awkward diplomatic dance ahead of queen's funeral 2022-09-17T04:00:00Z Over the years, that character has been cast in many lights: fairy tale princess, colonial despot, self-sacrificing monarch, money-sucking figurehead, under-appreciated working woman, unfeeling mother-in-law. For Americans, Queen Elizabeth II was the central character in the world's longest running soap opera 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z Try as they might, the world’s despots can never hide their fear of their own people. Opinion | In China, they lost their shirts, then their right to protest 2022-07-20T04:00:00Z But then I recalled that MBS is hardly the first, or even the worst, despot that U.S. presidents have greeted in similar ways. Opinion | Cut Biden some slack. U.S. presidents have to deal with dictators. 2022-07-17T04:00:00Z “The creation of the internet and social media has given today’s tyrants tools of propaganda and disinformation that yesterday’s despots could only have dreamed of,” he said. Trump hid plan for Capitol march on day he marked as ‘wild’, panel says 2022-07-12T04:00:00Z Many of these regions also experienced decades of civil conflict and unrest during the Cold War, when the United States and Soviet Union treated them as battlegrounds, propping up despots and insurgents. Is the World Really Falling Apart, or Does It Just Feel That Way? 2022-07-12T04:00:00Z He accused López Obrador of choosing to stand “with dictators and despots over representing the interests of the Mexican people in a summit with his partners from across the hemisphere.” Mexico’s president snubs Biden’s invitation to summit 2022-06-06T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, opposition hardliners and even some Democrats in Congress have accused the administration of bending over backward to appease an oil despot for little gain because of Venezuela’s diminished importance in global energy markets. Biden renews Chevron license to bypass Venezuela sanctions 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z Russia, however battered and inept, is still capable of inflicting untold destruction on Ukraine and is still a nuclear superpower with an aggrieved, volatile despot who has shown little inclination toward a negotiated settlement. Opinion | The War in Ukraine Is Getting Complicated, and America Isn’t Ready 2022-05-19T04:00:00Z We've done nothing about his murder, and nothing to dissuade future despots from following suit. We celebrated "free speech" this week — just as it's slipping away from us 2022-05-05T04:00:00Z It’s never boring when the Warriors disprove Barkley’s maxims about teams needing a big despot on the floor, a “bus driver” instead of “bus riders.” Perspective | The Warriors don’t stop moving, or sharing, and foes can’t keep up 2022-05-03T04:00:00Z In Stormblood, the warriors of light fought a megalomaniacal despot imbued with the powers of a dragon god, and in Shadowbringers, you fought that despot’s even more powerful great grandfather. A walk through the end with Naoki Yoshida 2022-04-29T04:00:00Z And for a few days in 1953, a place to get free borscht and toast the demise of a despot. Perspective | When Joseph Stalin died in 1953, this D.C. restaurant celebrated 2022-04-23T04:00:00Z European governments have been paying foreign despots and warlords, in countries like Sudan and Libya, to detain migrants on their behalf for years. The World’s Broken Promise of Asylum 2022-04-17T04:00:00Z He views our legal protections as “obsolete” sources of weakness, part of his broader boast that free societies cannot stand up to him and other despots around the world. Opinion | $100 Billion. Russia’s Treasure in the U.S. Should Be Turned Against Putin. 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z But as long as there are despots, there will be journalists trying to expose them. Trump, Putin and their kind are still dangerous — but their time is almost up 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z As expert in authoritarianism Brian Klaas explained last month in The Atlantic, the "stubborn myth" of "the savvy strongman, the rational, calculating despot who can play the long game" doesn't hold up to reality. Putin's war crimes — and his military failures — are making his GOP apologists squirm 2022-04-05T04:00:00Z But as the eyes of the world turn toward another Russian despot whose death would not be, let us say, unwelcome, let us head back to March 1953. Perspective | When Joseph Stalin died in 1953, this D.C. restaurant celebrated 2022-04-23T04:00:00Z If he used federal troops too aggressively, opponents would freely call him a military despot who would keep his party in office by force. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z One of the weaknesses of despots is that they begin to believe their own propaganda. Opinion | Chechens haven’t forgotten what Russia did 2022-03-26T04:00:00Z A “despot hellbent on reinstating Russia’s imperial reach” alongside China’s military buildup had reinforced the importance of hard power, he added. Space Force Down Under? Australia partners with the Pentagon on space defense. 2022-03-22T04:00:00Z “If we lower demand, that really saps the power of these petro despots to control our lives.” Nations Should Conserve Fuel as Global Energy Crisis Looms, Agency Warns 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z The digital revolution, which allows information to flow and spread at the speed of light, was supposed to be a boon for freedom and a blow to despots around the world. Opinion | Zelensky is going viral, but Putin is winning the information war that counts 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z In it, the Founding Father begged Americans to abandon “the baneful effects of the spirit of party,” warning that its disruptions could drive them to a despot for the sake of peace. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z The answer is money, boatloads of money, the same enticement despots use to get their hooks into the morally bankrupt souls in the increasingly interconnected worlds of business, sports and entertainment. COLUMN: Will sports ever stop cozying up to strongmen? 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z The organizing tool of the freedom fighter might equally serve the surveillance system of the despot. A Surge of Unifying Moral Outrage Over Russia’s War 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z "Today must mark a historical shift in how the world views and deals with the despot in Moscow." Biden to unveil new sanctions on Russia after it invades Ukraine 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z I mean, for most of the history of our species, people have lived under despots and tyrants and dictators and bullies and kings and queens and all that. "Trump will get his comeuppance": Rep. Jamie Raskin promises consequences for Jan. 6 2022-02-13T05:00:00Z Maybe it matters, academics say, that other countries in Europe were run by despots and monarchs into the 20th century. Britannia, With Fewer Rules 2022-01-29T05:00:00Z But I have also seen how new democratic systems — and sometimes even established ones — can fall to military juntas or power-hungry despots. Opinion | Jimmy Carter: I Fear for Our Democracy 2022-01-05T05:00:00Z This is why despots tend to hide from public view when they have health problems, to avoid any appearance of frailty that might set off a race to replace them. Behind Kazakhstan Unrest, the ‘Strongman’s Dilemma’ 2022-01-07T05:00:00Z Dictators and despots abused the free world’s distraction to double down on repression. Opinion | The world’s forgotten crises all got worse in 2021 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z Another follower of the station, commenting on a major staff shakeup in the vice president’s office, referred to Ms. Harris being a “despot, rude and demands a lot, having an unbearable character.” Another place VP Harris isn’t popular: Spanish-language talk radio in Florida 2021-12-14T05:00:00Z Instead, it becomes a kind of plaything for a despot. Opinion | Congress must act to protect democracy from presidential abuse, just as it did after Nixon 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z Their protests ring false, of course, but revealingly so: Despite recent backsliding, democracy is still such a popular concept around the world that even despots feel they must pay lip service to it. Opinion | At a moment of peril, the world’s democracies needed Biden’s pep rally 2021-12-10T05:00:00Z The simple reality here is President Biden and the Democratic Party saved the country from an out of control despot, a raging deadly virus and a spiraling, closed economy. Humility is the Democrats’ Kryptonite 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z “This is not democracy. … This is how despots get elected. These are Third World tactics.” 3 progressive candidates just changed politics in SeaTac — here’s how 2021-11-28T05:00:00Z “At the end of the day, people are not going to put that despot in office one more time.” Biden and aides tell allies he is running in 2024 amid growing Democratic fears 2021-11-20T05:00:00Z Both Dickens and Moore capitalized on the issue, framing Reed as a power-hungry despot. Kasim Reed’s comeback in Atlanta collapses with 3rd-place finish 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z His actions were even anticipated by America's first president, George Washington, who worried that an aspiring despot would manipulate partisanship to convince supporters to end democracy so they could win. As violence broke out on Jan. 6, Donald Trump's lawyer lashed out at Mike Pence 2021-11-01T04:00:00Z Parson’s attack came shortly after the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to journalists threatened by despots in Russia and the Philippines. Timely stories highlight journalism crisis 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z These despots have reframed democratic opponents and civil society activists as security threats and decided to pursue them wherever they flee. Opinion | Repression Without Borders 2021-08-28T04:00:00Z While the balance sheet here favors the peacemakers — the Gandhis, Kings and Mandelas — the book includes, as it must, despots and demagogues. Review | An anthology of great speeches, from the inspirational to the ominous 2021-07-08T04:00:00Z Generals conspire to have the despot institutionalized only to be fed one of their own at a banquet as a cautionary lesson. A reading guide to legendary Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez 2021-07-02T04:00:00Z Rivet, for example, lives in that dimension where Dr. Nefarious is a despot known as Emperor Nefarious. Review | ‘Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart’ is a zany showcase for PS5′s visual potential 2021-06-08T04:00:00Z Sobol and Duncan teamed against Perez, a vicious despot with deep beliefs in racial pseudoscience, to demand Duncan’s rights be upheld and not take a plea deal. Review: Simmering doc 'A Crime on the Bayou' illustrates the cyclical ills of systemic racism 2021-06-18T04:00:00Z Increasingly, despots use the machinery of foreign law enforcement to repress without resorting to assassination or rendition. As Dictators Target Citizens Abroad, Few Safe Spaces Remain 2021-06-04T04:00:00Z “Our democracy is collapsing, and that’s dangerous for all of us because the void will be filled by carnival barkers, despots and authoritarians.” Column: Tyranny of the minority, or how Trump and other sore losers are making our nasty politics worse 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z This despot weaves a fairy tale about what he will do, and it’s in a very aggressive ‘lock her up’ kind of way. Opinion | How do Trump’s perpetrators and bystanders stay silent? 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z It has become the partner of despots seeking prestige and money laundering on billion-dollar building projects for their cronies. Perspective | China controls the IOC and Olympic sponsors the way it governs its citizens: Through fear 2021-04-14T04:00:00Z ANNAPOLIS, Md. — Maryland lawmakers gave final passage on Monday to repeal the state song, a Civil War-era call to arms for the Confederacy against “Northern scum” that refers to President Abraham Lincoln as a despot. Maryland votes to repeal state song 2021-03-29T04:00:00Z As authorities learn to check twice when foreign despots claim terrorism, warrants often cite money laundering instead. As Dictators Target Citizens Abroad, Few Safe Spaces Remain 2021-06-04T04:00:00Z Written in April 1861, the song’s lyrics refer to then-President Abraham Lincoln as a “despot” and “tyrant” and speaks in support of Maryland seceding from the U.S. and fighting “Northern scum.” Maryland Senate unanimously votes to repeal state song 2021-03-20T04:00:00Z It appears as though under the Biden administration, despots who offer momentarily strategic value to the United States might be given a “one free murder” pass. Opinion | Say it ain’t so, Joe 2021-03-01T05:00:00Z He calmed the residents of Bnei Brak before the 1991 Persian Gulf war, assuring them that Saddam Hussein’s missiles would not harm them, despite the Iraqi despot’s threats to strike at metropolitan Tel Aviv. How the Pandemic Nearly Tore Israel Apart 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z The Feb. 21 editorial “Confront despots where they live” was right that the United States must be part of the solution in the global struggles for democracy and universal human rights. Opinion | Use our arms sales to leverage despots 2021-02-24T05:00:00Z It’s the digital equivalent of seizing control of the local TV and radio station that was part of the pre-internet playbook for despots and rebels. Digital siege: Internet cuts become favored tool of regimes 2021-02-10T05:00:00Z Brazen despots, such as Uzbekistan's former leader Islam Karimov, simply disregard a constitutional term limit. Trump sees power as private property – a habit shared by autocrats throughout the ages 2021-01-26T05:00:00Z The despot is fighting back the only way he knows how, with a police state reception at the airport. Opinion | Putin’s arrest of Navalny reveals his true colors 2021-01-19T05:00:00Z President Trump and his supporters were likened to dictators, despots, terrorists, and genocidal maniacs this week by dueling cable news competitors and elected officials. Trump, supporters likened to Nazis, Saddam’s Ba’ath Party in cable-news demonization duel 2021-01-14T05:00:00Z They gestured to the venality of tin-pot despots in banana republics when talking about Trump’s incitement of an insurrection. Analysis | The end of the road for American exceptionalism 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z The song begins with a hostile reference to Lincoln: “The despot’s heel is on thy shore, Maryland! His torch is at thy temple door, Maryland!” Maryland may repeal state song, a Confederate call to arms 2020-12-29T05:00:00Z Trump combines the ambitions of a despot with the strategic planning and operational competence of a hamster. Opinion | Trump and his party are threatening our constitutional order 2020-12-17T05:00:00Z There was the mounting evidence that Trump simply couldn't function as the president of a democracy and that he consistently gravitated towards the behavior of a despot. Why Donald Trump is failing at making his dictator dreams a reality 2020-12-13T05:00:00Z Or, as King James I put it, writing as only a racist despot can: “a wonderful plague … so as there is not left any that do claim or challenge any kind of interest therein.” Column: What you don't know about the first Thanksgiving might keep you home for this one 2020-11-24T05:00:00Z His rise exemplifies a standoff in recent years between aging despots and young voters in Africa, a trend also playing out in countries like Algeria, Cameroon, Sudan and Zimbabwe. Deadly Protests Erupt in Uganda After Arrest of 2 Opposition Figures 2020-11-19T05:00:00Z “We will not be cowed or ruled by a lawless, power-hungry despot.” With caravans and outdoor rallies that some see as intimidation, Trump supporters step up public promotion 2020-11-01T04:00:00Z That’s a welcome contrast to a president so ignorant and hungry for praise that he is easily manipulated by wily despots. Opinion | I’m not just voting against Trump — I’m voting for Biden. Here are eight reasons. 2020-10-27T04:00:00Z We often focus on the bluster and bullying of despots, but they don't rise to power through sheer invective. Why Donald Trump is failing at making his dictator dreams a reality 2020-12-13T05:00:00Z Trump has argued that befriending Putin and other despots around the world, including North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, pays dividends for the United States. Tumult at home, ailing alliances abroad: Why Trump’s America has been a ‘gift’ to Putin 2020-10-24T04:00:00Z Mr. Kim, arguably the nastiest despot on earth, made a striking metamorphosis from “little rocket man” to writer of “love letters” in Mr. Trump’s universe after two summit meetings that achieved nothing. Opinion | The Foreign Policy That Wasn’t 2020-10-16T04:00:00Z After four years of conservatives warning that Roosevelt was a despot, he came charging into his second term demanding to pack the court with his picks. The problem is Congress 2020-09-23T04:00:00Z It refers to Abraham Lincoln as a tyrant and opens with “the despot’s heel is on thy shore,” a reference to Lincoln. Preakness will not play Maryland’s state song, a Civil War-era ballad that celebrates the Confederacy 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z Approval ratings that low don't tend to translate into overwhelming enthusiasm or even acceptance of a budding dictatorship, especially when our would-be despot lacks other pillars of support. Why Donald Trump is failing at making his dictator dreams a reality 2020-12-13T05:00:00Z The poem’s opening line is “The despot’s heel is on thy shore,” a reference to President Abraham Lincoln. Preakness ends playing of ‘extremely offensive’ state song 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z Hayden said the president has committed an abuse of power used by despots all over the world by trying to distort the nature of reality itself. 'Our democracy will be gone': Critics raise alarm over authoritarianism if Trump is reelected 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z Trump goes around the world bragging about all the arms contracts with despots and dictators that he has personally brought home to American contractors. Trump's contempt for the military reveals his fatuous, bloated ego — and could finish him off 2020-09-09T04:00:00Z Likewise, former Joint Chiefs chairman and George W. Bush’s secretary of state Colin Powell endorsed Biden because he wouldn’t succumb to “the flattery of dictators and despots.” Opinion | The U.S. military builds a bulwark against Trump 2020-09-03T04:00:00Z Like despots in so many developing countries, Trump governs more and more by decree in the form of executive orders. 5 epic failures of Donald Trump that illustrate the U.S.’s decline 2020-08-29T04:00:00Z His disinterest in American values, his tolerance for despots and his hostility to allies leave us uniquely vulnerable while our adversaries take every advantage of absent American leadership. Opinion | Why dozens of John McCain aides, including me, are endorsing Joe Biden 2020-08-27T04:00:00Z Talk radio host Glenn Beck on Thursday issued a public mea culpa for fiercely opposing President Trump in 2016 and warning on air that Mr. Trump was an aspiring despot. Glenn Beck apologizes to Trump: ‘He proved me wrong at almost every turn’ 2020-08-27T04:00:00Z Yes, Lincoln overstepped his bounds, notably in the creation of the state of West Virginia, but he committed himself to govern as a citizen, not a despot. A woke Trump convention 2020-08-26T04:00:00Z Former President Barack Obama on Wednesday said President Trump is a despot and a threat to American democracy, warning of dire and lasting consequences if voters don’t put a stop to him in November. Obama: Trump will ‘tear our democracy down’ if not stopped 2020-08-19T04:00:00Z Mr. Powell drew an unsubtle contrast with the current president, saying Mr. Biden would reject “the flattery of dictators and despots” and project American moral values overseas. Democrats Nominate Biden for President, Delivering Long-Sought Prize 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z “He will trust our diplomats and our intelligence community, not the flattery of dictators and despots.” Colin Powell says Biden will 'restore America’s leadership' in convention speech 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z “We have a President that has openly solicited foreign assistance in his campaigns and in the style of a despot recently floated the idea of delaying this year’s election.” Mississippi mayor works against Trump, won’t seek 3rd term 2020-08-03T04:00:00Z So, according to Andersen, Stalin, Mao and the many other despots who have murdered millions of their own people are not as evil as President Trump. Replace the national anthem? Readers have some suggestions 2020-07-24T04:00:00Z White House sources recently told the veteran reporter Carl Bernstein that Trump was fawning in his calls with Putin and other despots, and demeaning to Angela Merkel and – when she was PM – to Theresa May. Covering Russia and the west: 'Putin's goal is to make the truth unknowable' 2020-07-12T04:00:00Z He added: “This is what despots do: wield the law like a weapon to attack political opponents and protect loyal cronies. It’s a disgraceful, dark day for American democracy.” Trump's commutation of ally Roger Stone's sentence sparks outrage 2020-07-11T04:00:00Z The senators rightly observed that the United States “cannot afford to invest in an enterprise that denigrates its own journalists and staff to the satisfaction of dictators and despots.” Opinion | Failing to renew VOA foreign staffers’ visas would devastate one of its core functions 2020-07-10T04:00:00Z But that resolution will expire Friday, triggering frantic negotiations to try and solve the stalemate and to overcome opposition from Russia -- which is Syrian despot Bashar al-Assad’s largest backer. Russian resolution to cut US-backed Syrian cross-border aid program fails at UN Security Council 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z Such thinking is like that of King George III and the other despots who the founders rejected with the Declaration of Independence, the Revolutionary War and the United States Constitution. Donald Trump is the 21st-century Jefferson Davis: History will judge him — and us 2020-07-04T04:00:00Z Trump has a long history of making excuses for despots. Opinion | Trump’s diminished moral capacity is on full display 2020-06-29T04:00:00Z But, many others revile him as a despot who imprisoned and killed opponents during a reign of terror. Taiwan's Chiang Kai-shek statues draw curious crowds - and controversy 2020-06-24T04:00:00Z Iron Man, Thor, the Hulk and the rest of the Avengers unite to battle the evil Thanos -- an intergalactic despot who plans to use all six Infinity Stones to inflict his twisted will on reality. Movies on TV this week: 'Terms of Endearment' and more 2020-06-19T04:00:00Z The use of military force for political ends is a defining characteristic of tin-pot despots, a practice regarded with revulsion by Mullen and his peers. America convulses amid a week of protests, but can it change? 2020-06-06T04:00:00Z Instead, Shirley centers the author’s artistic brilliance, Dickinson revels in the poet’s real creative confidence, The Great trickily extricates the contradictions of the Enlightened despot’s position. History remixed: the rise of the anachronistic female lead 2020-06-04T04:00:00Z President Trump is, temperamentally, a tinpot despot of this type. Opinion | Salman Rushdie: I’ve seen dictators rise and fall. Beware, America. 2020-06-03T04:00:00Z "These are the words of an authoritarian. Threatening the use of military force against one's own citizens is the last resort of despots and tyrants," the board said. Leaked audio: Trump attacks “weak” governors for not calling in "military" after he hid in a bunker 2020-06-01T04:00:00Z Mr. Brennan tweeted Thursday that the president’s “propaganda & disinformation machine, which operates according to a despot’s playbook, is the most aggressive & odious in history.” Graham welcomes Obama, Trump to testify on spying on campaign 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z “On the other hand, if you defend Dr. Tedros and the WHO, you’re seen as somehow endorsing his comfort level with the world’s despots and dictators.” WHO chief unbowed amid attacks, Trump criticism 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z Unbowed, Mr. Paul declared his independence from the mask despots. Recovered Rand Paul leads anti-mask rebellion: ‘I’m the only safe person in Washington’ 2020-05-06T04:00:00Z Is the devious despot dead after heart surgery? Perspective | Is the talk about Kim Jong Un being sick — or worse — true? Pyongyang is abuzz, too. 2020-04-26T04:00:00Z The subject features less on her new album, Good Souls Better Angels, although you could say it deals with worse fates: shame, depression, the uncanny horror of watching despots crush the values you hold dear. Lucinda Williams: 'I don't mind pushing people's buttons' 2020-04-24T04:00:00Z In geopolitical terms, Mr. Trump should be absorbing the lesson that Russia’s president is not a U.S. friend, actual or potential, but rather a despot willing to play hardball against this country’s vital interests. Opinion | The oil price war’s ultimate loser is America 2020-03-10T04:00:00Z The campaign also sent tweets pretending to be Sanders about the former Ugandan despot Idi Amin, and the Soviet leader Joseph Stalin. Bloomberg effort to mock Sanders with tweets praising dictators backfires 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z Just as the dust was settling from that one, Bloomberg’s campaign posted a bunch of “satirical” tweets imagining what Sanders would say to various despots throughout history. The Bloomberg campaign’s social media stunts keep backfiring 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z Now, Sanders’s comments are coming back to life as opponents say his warm feelings toward his hosts decades ago make him vulnerable to attack and reveal a soft spot for left-wing despots. In Cold War travels, Bernie Sanders found much to admire behind enemy lines. Now that’s a problem for his campaign. 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z Now, Sanders’ comments are coming back to life as opponents say his warm feelings toward his hosts decades ago make him vulnerable to attack and reveal a soft spot for left-wing despots. Sanders’ praise for communists roils race 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z American laws have allowed foreign despots, terror networks and drug cartels to benefit, said Gary Kalman, director of the Transparency International's U.S. office. Which countries are considered the most corrupt? 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z Democracies that work together to stem the flow won’t stop countries such as China from exporting surveillance systems to despots around the world. Opinion | We don’t know whether MBS hacked Jeff Bezos’s phone. We do know spyware is everywhere. 2020-01-26T05:00:00Z Sowing fear of the “other” is seductive and effective, which is why despots throughout history have employed it to achieve their aims. Discrimination has no place at the U.S.-Canada border 2020-01-13T05:00:00Z Whether intentional or a simulation, plenty of despots and strongmen since then have engaged in this “madman theory,” too often with terrifying consequences. Donald Trump's new "fire and fury": More madman cosplay, with no exit strategy 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z Senator Jack Reed, Democrat of Rhode Island and a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said Mr. Trump’s threats would only encourage despots of the world to target antiquities themselves. Pentagon Rules Out Striking Iranian Cultural Sites, Contradicting Trump 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z At the United Nations, Mr. Trump pulled the plug on a public airing of the atrocities, bowing to the despot. Opinion | Trump panders to a dictator while North Korea advances its weapons development 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z Before that, the former Miss Manila was a globe-trotter who met with world leaders — U.S. presidents as well as Third World despots — and partied with George Hamilton, Andy Warhol and, inevitably, Donald Trump. Review | A soul-chilling portrait of Imelda Marcos, in the documentary ‘The Kingmaker’ 2019-12-10T05:00:00Z To many Afghans, the warlords were cruel despots whose misrule helped destroy the country. U.S. flooded nation with money, then turned a blind eye to corruption 2019-12-10T05:00:00Z The leader of a band of desert mercenaries is hired to kill a ruthless despot and his clairvoyant sorceress. Movies on TV this week: 'The Deer Hunter,' 'White Christmas' and more 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z Today, citizens of Hong Kong are battling in the streets and at the ballot box against the same sort of “silly despots” who held sway in much of the world 2½ centuries ago. Opinion | Gratitude once suffused America. Today, things are not as they should be. 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z Now imagine how many despots, autocrats and enterprising intelligence agencies have had the same idea, but targeted at Facebook’s and Google’s astronomically more extensive and intensive records about their billions of users. Tech giants watch our every move online. Does that violate our human rights? 2019-11-23T05:00:00Z Others, including Carlos Mesa, the former Bolivian president who is vying to replace Mr. Morales, and Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil’s far-right leader, saw it as the triumph of peaceful resistance to a despot. ‘This Will Be Forever’: How the Ambitions of Evo Morales Contributed to His Fall 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z He behaves like a Third World tyrant: insisting he possesses absolute power, launching investigations into his political opponents and elevating foreign despots over his own people, while feloniously attempting to rig his own re-election. So we're supposed to treat Donald Trump with respect, after all this? Oh, hell no 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z The way that you go after your rivals, if you're a despot in an authoritarian regime, is by basically bending the institutions to work for you against them. Brian Klaas: Trump has "exposed the weakness of American democracy" — but there's hope 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z Impeachment is a terrible power because it was forged to counter a terrible power: the despot who deems himself to be above the law. The Invention—and Reinvention—of Impeachment 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z Perversely, whenever developing countries sought to cancel debts racked up by old despots, the west maintained crippling rates of interest, thus restricting their ability to build their own sustainable economies. Time to recognise that western greed is one of the causes of global hunger | Kevin McKenna 2019-10-20T04:00:00Z In an opinion article in the New York Times, McRaven accused Trump of spreading “frustration, humiliation, anger and fear” through the armed forces and of championing “despots and strongmen” while abandoning US allies. General discontent: how the president's military men turned on Trump 2019-10-18T04:00:00Z Learning about the great historical contributions of this diverse network of cultures is far more interesting than reading about another egomaniacal despot. The truth about Columbus Day, explained 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z They should also recognize that the whole world should not be forced to play by their rules, just as they would likely prefer not to play by those of some opportunistic despot. Opinion | An E.U. court just gave countries a free pass for censorship on Facebook 2019-10-06T04:00:00Z But despots, tyrants, authoritarians and demagogues such as Donald Trump are universally afraid of hope. Impeachment and emotional whiplash: Can Americans rise up in hope and courage? 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z In some ways, it’s hard to imagine that an undisputed corporate overlord would have much of an interest in operating like a twentieth- or twenty-first-century despot. The day a tech billionaire takes over the world 2019-09-18T04:00:00Z But this effort made Johnson look like some second-rate despot holed up in his bunker, terrified of an actual encounter with his people. Brexit: government publishes Operation Yellowhammer documents – live news 2019-09-11T04:00:00Z That is the measure of a despot, and advocacy for that view in itself should be a high crime and a misdemeanor. Another Look at Impeachment, at the End of a Long Summer 2019-08-28T04:00:00Z He built a rickety seven-foot riser for his drum kit, so that he towered over his bandmates like some sort of magnificent despot. The Survival of Iggy Pop 2019-08-26T04:00:00Z The pamphlet scandal is an end-point in colonial India's history in which Hyderabad and the princely states were still "oriental despots," just before many became nationalist supporters. The Victorian sex scandal that shook India 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z Predictably, Trump feels deep affection and admiration for foreign dictators and despots like North Korea's Kim Jong-un and Russia's Vladimir Putin. When Trump talks about "our movement," be afraid — it will outlast his presidency 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z When I spoke to him in January, I asked McFaul about what ideology if any is held by the current Russian despot. Trumpists are the real McCarthyists 2019-08-11T04:00:00Z “This year’s program captures characters you’ll never forget: lovers, fighters, dancers, athletes, despots, rebels, hustlers, and heroes,” said Thom Powers, documentary programmer at the festival, in a statement. Nicolas Cage's latest genre freakout headlines Toronto Film Festival's midnight line-up 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z Hence his admiration for foreign despots and his infantile delight in his own bad manners. Opinion | Trump doesn’t just pollute the social environment with hate. He is the environment. 2019-08-05T04:00:00Z In 13th-century England, a skilled archer and his men confront a despot in a local village and set out to prevent their homeland from erupting in civil war. Here are the feature and TV films airing the week of Aug. 4-10, 2019 2019-08-02T04:00:00Z We have an authoritarian despot in the White House, and he’s got the national credit card and Congress is his “minder.” Lessons from the Puerto Rican insurrection: "When tyranny is the law, revolution is the order." 2019-07-28T04:00:00Z A day later, the President stepped into North Korea to reward Kim Jong Un, the world’s most authoritarian despot, with a handshake and the promise of better relations. The Unbelievable Hypocrisy of Trump’s New “Unalienable Rights” Panel 2019-07-09T04:00:00Z Hansen, however, endeavors not to evaluate Castro’s time in government but to reintroduce us to Fidel Castro before he became the liberator/despot we thought we knew. Review | Portrait of a young Castro, drawn from his personal archive 2019-07-05T04:00:00Z They understood that such a pageant is the stuff of despots, not democrats. Donald Trump wants to be a dictator. It’s not enough just to laugh at him 2019-07-05T04:00:00Z She says the most shameful aspect of the event is that “our military is being co-opted for a gratuitous display of strength by a commander in chief who relishes the attention of dictators and despots.” Rep. McCollum says Trump is “hijacking” July 4th festivities 2019-07-03T04:00:00Z A country could be ruled by the consent of its citizens and not by despots. Opinion | Trump is stealing the Fourth of July from the American people 2019-07-02T04:00:00Z In his sometimes bitter memoirs, Iacocca called Henry an evil despot and boorish drunk who was bigoted, paranoid about “palace revolts” and frightened of strong executives. Lee Iacocca, father of the Ford Mustang who later rescued Chrysler, dies at 94 2019-07-02T04:00:00Z There are widespread concerns that Trump's current approach toward North Korea has empowered and legitimized the despot while doing little, if anything, to curtail the power of his unstable regime. President Trump mulls tacit acceptance of North Korea as a nuclear power: report 2019-07-01T04:00:00Z The archetypal despot lodged in the collective imagination does not speak English. Donald Trump wants to be a dictator. It’s not enough just to laugh at him 2019-07-05T04:00:00Z Any optimism remains cloaked in caution and wariness of the pitfalls of negotiating with despots. EXCLUSIVE: Trump’s ‘unconvential’ diplomacy opens doors, Pompeo says 2019-06-30T04:00:00Z Kim, along with his wife, and his powerful sister Kim Yo Jong, watched the show, titled "The Land of the People," on Monday in Pyongyang, but the despot expressed his disapproval. North Korea suspends Mass Games after Kim Jong Un criticized famous show 2019-06-05T04:00:00Z To alert ears, that was a coded rebuke to a president who actively undermines those very structures, admires despots and belittles the leaders of America’s democratic allies. Brexiteers want a leader with Trump’s swagger. That would be the ruin of Britain | Rafael Behr 2019-06-04T04:00:00Z If the military prevails in Sudan, it will mark a victory as well for these ruthless despots and their road-to-nowhere style of governance. Opinion | Sudan’s revolution could end up like Tiananmen — or even more tragic 2019-06-03T04:00:00Z The Saudi royals are among the worst despots around. Troika fever: Key American allies in the Middle East are the real tyrants 2019-06-02T04:00:00Z Trump is enamored of foreign despots, dictators and other authoritarians. Last week, Trump nearly knocked out democracy: Can it still be saved? 2019-05-29T04:00:00Z The problem with that policy is not just its moral depravity; it is also an invitation to Mohammed bin Salman and other despots to murder more journalists and other opponents. Opinion | Congress can seek justice for Jamal Khashoggi’s murder. It’s clear Trump won’t. 2019-05-18T04:00:00Z The king of Burma, they insisted, was a drunk despot with a wicked wife. The Quandary of Myanmar: Will Starving the Country of Visitors Make Things Better? 2019-05-15T04:00:00Z As the Founding Fathers of the United States taught us, we should always keep a vigilant watch over the liberties we enjoy so that those rights are not taken away by tyrannical, power-hungry despots. Perspective | Dear Vice President Pence: The real persecution of Christians isn’t here in America 2019-05-13T04:00:00Z More recently, President Trump’s tweets directed at a certain Asian despot almost mimic Heller. Why Joseph Heller's ‘Catch-22’ is a relevant antiwar satire in the age of Trump 2019-05-15T04:00:00Z “If we were in Syria and some despot threw chemicals at us, and we died, the whole world would stand up and say: ‘Oh, how horrible. 'It’s been killing us for 50 years': residents on living in Cancer Town 2019-05-07T04:00:00Z Protesters in Algeria and Sudan, after successfully pushing for the ouster of their own aging despots, are watching for a similar bait-and-switch. What Makes a Coup Succeed? Confidence, Consensus and a Sense of Inevitability 2019-05-02T04:00:00Z Again and again, Trump is drawn toward the sheikhs, the generals and other despots. Opinion | Democrats should call attention to Trump’s patriotism deficit 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z The despot traveled to Russia with a big entourage — possibly more than 200 people — and lots of supplies. Kim Jong Un’s arrival in Russia for Putin summit hit by train mishap 2019-04-24T04:00:00Z A would-be despot who thinks the rule of law does not apply to him. Opinion | Seattle isn’t afraid of immigrants, Mr. Trump 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z Such despots should pay close attention to what happened in Sudan, where protests began against economic misery and were fueled by resentment of corruption, arrogance and indifference by Mr. Bashir and his cronies. Opinion | What Trump should learn from the downfall of Sudan’s dictator 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z Over the last few years, in our time-honoured tradition of flogging weapons to human-rights abusing despots, the British government has approved millions of pounds worth of arms licences to Brunei. Holidays and arms deals with Brunei don’t trump gay people’s right to exist | Owen Jones 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z No wonder the Victorians looked down their noses on referendums and plebiscites, the devices of such despots as Louis Napoleon, who was “elected” emperor of the French by universal male suffrage in 1852. Paths from the past: historians make sense of Brexit and our current political turmoil 2019-03-30T04:00:00Z He said it’s no coincidence that “fake news” – one of Trump’s favourite labels – “has become the phrase of choice for every despot terrorising his people”. Joe Biden's verbal slip sets off speculation of presidential run 2019-03-17T04:00:00Z Independence movements sometimes deliver liberation, but sometimes they simply replace foreign despots with local ones. Algeria Tests Path Toward Democracy in an Era of Authoritarianism 2019-03-13T04:00:00Z He made clear he still believed in the North Korean despot’s good faith, even in the matter of the brutal and fatal torture of the US student Otto Warmbier in a North Korean prison. The art of the no deal: how Trump and Kim misread each other | Julian Borger 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z That one of the world’s most prestigious universities is handing out such honours to dictators and despots is itself morally repellant, and helps confer them with ill-gotten legitimacy and respectability. Holidays and arms deals with Brunei don’t trump gay people’s right to exist | Owen Jones 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z Customs office spokesman Roul Velleman confirmed the seizure, but did not elaborate on why Dutch officials believe it was intended for the North Korean despot. 90K bottles of Russian vodka believed to be for Kim Jong Un seized by Dutch customs 2019-02-26T05:00:00Z The despot will most likely arrive at the Dong Dang railway station bordering China and Vietnam early Tuesday morning. Kim Jong Un’s train travel to Vietnam hidden by Chinese censors 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z He realized that there would never be an “enlightened” despot, and, when the American Revolution happened, he welcomed it in a way he might not have a decade earlier. How the Man of Reason Got Radicalized 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z The despot may choose to travel by train from Pyongyang to the Dong Dang railway station on the Chinese border — and pass through Beijing along the way. Kim Jong Un may travel more than 2,500 miles to Vietnam via his signature train for Trump summit 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z His abuse of journalism and embrace of despots are already having serious global consequences. Opinion | Trump is terrible, but the sabotage of Brexit will outlast him 2019-02-18T05:00:00Z But despots — and would-be despots — have seen in Trump a model, as well as an alibi. Around the globe, Trump’s style is inspiring imitators and unleashing dark impulses 2019-01-22T05:00:00Z There are many who seek to diminish Lincoln’s legacy by casting him as some sort of despot, but that tends to either be sour grapes among still-unreconstructed Southerners or hot take aficionados. Trump backs away from emergency declaration 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z An Enlightenment foe of despotism becomes the boy toy of a despot. How the Man of Reason Got Radicalized 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z At the play’s opening, the scenario seems grimly clear: Mr B is a bullying despot, Pamela his cowering victim. Cate Blanchett on her S&M-themed play: 'I see theatre as a provocation' 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z It’s too bad that more technology titans won’t show a little more backbone standing up to censors and despots. Opinion | The Saudi blocking of Hasan Minhaj’s Netflix show proves nothing has changed in Riyadh 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z “I mean, the way I understand it, they laughed at Hitler. They all look funny. Hitler looked funny, Mussolini looked funny and other dictators and despots look funny.” Robert De Niro: ‘Democrats have to be more aggressive’ 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z The despot made his first visit last year in March — which officials first confirmed days after a mystery train was spotted arriving and leaving a train station in the Chinese capital of Beijing. North Korean train crossing into China sparks rumor of possible 4th meeting between Kim, Xi 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z That meant—despite various feints at creating “intermediary powers” in Russia that could stand between the despot and the people—putting it off for good. How the Man of Reason Got Radicalized 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z In return, many have turned a blind eye to his contempt for the free market, his willingness to run up the national debt and his embrace of foreign despots at the expense of allies. Is Mitt Romney the man to lead a Republican rebellion against Trump? 2019-01-06T05:00:00Z They also wrestle with the nightmare that he will abandon them to a despot who flatters him. Opinion | Trump gives American hostages held abroad hope — and also takes it away 2018-12-23T05:00:00Z The Trump administration would “no longer appease dictators and despots near our shores”, Bolton vowed. Ortega condemned for raids on NGOs and media in Nicaragua 2018-12-16T05:00:00Z The company stands accused of various offenses: degrading politics; empowering despots; leaving users vulnerable to abuse; abusing its users’ data for profit. What Happens When Facebook Goes the Way of Myspace? 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z In her analysis of the causes of repression in her society, Ms. Alexeyeva consistently disputed any neat apposition of Russian despots and Western democratic leaders. Lyudmila Alexeyeva, ‘Grandmother’ of Russia’s Human Rights Movement, Dies at 91 2018-12-09T05:00:00Z The people Trump shows loyalty to are despots, Putin chief among them. John Kelly, Trump’s Chief of Staff, to Leave White House 2018-12-08T05:00:00Z Kushner, without any knowledge of the internal workings of the Saudi Royal family, through casual small talk developed a relationship with MBS by providing cover for that despot. The Wooing of Jared Kushner: How the Saudis Got a Friend in the White House 2018-12-08T05:00:00Z The Dec. 3 editorial “A quartet of despots in the Middle East” mischaracterized the United Arab Emirates as neglecting its role as a positive force for change in the world’s most troubled region. Opinion | The UAE has made progress toward being a model for positive change in the Middle East 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z The firm was well on its way to becoming Exhibit A of a Washington phenomenon known as “The Torturers’ Lobby” — highly paid firms working for despots and tyrants. Swamp builders: How Manafort and Stone created the mess Trump said he’d drain 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z Trump once again chooses to believe the disingenuous denials of a despot over the findings of the U.S. intelligence community — just as he did with Russia’s attack on the 2016 election. Opinion | How Trump is making the world a very dangerous place 2018-11-27T05:00:00Z Xi’s autocratic Chinese model sets the standard for every jumped-up tuppenny despot keen to make a mark. The Chinese export we really should be worried about: repression | Simon Tisdall 2018-11-23T05:00:00Z Our national interests are too closely bound up with those of Saudi Arabia, and especially to a modernizing despot, to make this terrible death the basis of policy. In Extraordinary Statement, Trump Stands With Saudis Despite Khashoggi Killing 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z The aged Shah, a despot installed and propped up by U.S. power, imposed military rule in a desperate attempt to extend his reign. Opinion | You think things are bad now? Look back 40 years. 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z Kim was joined by other officials scrawling information on notepads — a standard scene when the despot conducts field guidance at factories. Kim Jong Un visits glass factory once suspected of producing military equipment, report says 2018-11-18T05:00:00Z Fox News on Thursday reported he was paid $750,000 in 2011 to lobby on behalf of an Ivory Coast despot who is now on trial at the International Criminal Court. In Mississippi, GOP concern rises over U.S. Senate runoff 2018-11-17T05:00:00Z He alleged it was used to deflect attention away from accusations that Espy accepted payments from an African despot. GOP Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith jokes about voter suppression in video: “I think that’s a great... 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z A Democratic Senate hopeful in Mississippi cashed in $750,000 after lobbying on behalf of an African despot currently on trial for crimes against humanity at the International Criminal Court. Democrat Mississippi Senate hopeful misled about $750G lobbying contract with African despot 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z Young men are nothing if not understudy poets — imams, kings, despots, loafers, all of them. 5 Men, a Sack of Beer and a Forest With a Magical Well 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z Watching television aboard Air Force One, on a flight back from his summit in Singapore with Kim Jong-un, the North Korean despot, Mr. Trump decreed that Representative Mark Sanford of South Carolina must be defeated. How the House Fell: Republican Chaos and Democratic Focus 2018-11-07T05:00:00Z “We had thousands of people boycotting our county, protesting our board meetings, the Washington Post claimed that I was a third-world despot,” he said. Trumpism Lives On in Corey Stewart’s Campaign for the Virginia Senate 2018-11-06T05:00:00Z The despots' portraits hang in nearly all buildings and households in North Korea, the BBC reported. North Korea unveils Kim Jong Un’s first official portrait 2018-11-06T05:00:00Z Regardless, it remains evidently clear that many UFC fighters and champions are willing to be used as political puppets, and as a means to an end for tyrants and despots. Khabib Nurmagomedov's UFC victory tour turns into a case of political puppetry 2018-11-06T05:00:00Z The European Union partnered with brutal despots, like Libya’s Muammar Qaddafi, to prevent refugees from reaching Europe. Trump Wants to Make it Hard to Get Asylum. Other Countries Feel the Same. 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z A day prior, Bolton called Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua a “troika of tyranny,” saying the U.S. “will no longer appease dictators and despots near our shores in this hemisphere.” Cuba condemns latest tough talk from US about the island 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z Bolton told the audience at Miami Dade College that under President Trump, “we will no longer appease dictators and despots near our shores in this Hemisphere.” Bolton brands Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua a ‘troika of tyranny’ in sanctions rollout 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z In September, South Korean President Moon Jae-in said Kim held another summit where the North Korean despot agreed to allow experts into its facilities if the U.S. made reciprocal measures. North Korea preparing to let international inspectors visit nuclear test site, report says 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z The narrator is accompanied by moody music and news clips of reporters covering the despots. Steyer likens Trump to ‘worst tyrants on earth,’ in ad condemned by RNC 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z Edwards said: “Spinelessly sending the British ambassador to this ‘Davos in the desert’ shows just how desperate the Westminster government is to appease despots. Evidence suggests crown prince ordered Khashoggi killing, says ex-MI6 chief 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z Ironically, for someone so ferociously anti-Iranian, MBS resembles no Middle Eastern ruler as much as the shah of Iran, a reformer and also a despot, who was much loved by Western elites. Opinion | Khashoggi’s alleged murder says as much about America as Saudi Arabia 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z Another receptive audience for Trump’s disinformation campaigns is made up of foreign despots, such as Gulf monarchs, who face fewer constraints on their actions than he does. Donald Trump, Jamal Khashoggi, and the Post-Truth World 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z Mr. Abrams used his op-ed to send helpful advice to the “enlightened despot” so that he can better whitewash this little mess he has created. Opinion | Missing morality in the Jamal Khashoggi saga 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z Nikki was a voice of reason in a sea of despots. Nikki Haley to Resign as Trump’s Ambassador to the U.N. 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z These usurpers of the democratic order in America, then, would prepare the way for a true despot to rise to power, even in America. Alexander Hamilton was preoccupied with the threat that a presidency like Trump’s posed for Ame... 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z Her critiques echo those of warlords and despots whose arguments have long been dismissed by the West. U.S. attack on Hague Court seen as boost to world’s dictators 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z History views resisters of despots as heroes rather than cowards. Opinion | Should the resisters in the White House resign? 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z It sounds like food and medicine to another country, when in fact it’s money to the despots that’s in charge. Gary Johnson wants to be the Senate swing vote — and a “Better Call Saul” cameo 2018-09-08T04:00:00Z Goose-stepping was once favored by despots like Hitler, Mussolini, Mao and Stalin, but North Korea is now one of the few nations whose military still does a full-fledged version. Past goose-steppers proud of place in North Korean parades 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z The folks in the New Yorker circle are far more likely to believe that Trump is a nascent despot than to believe that he is anything like a normal president. Opinion | Why the New Yorker’s concerns about normalizing Steve Bannon miss the point 2018-09-04T04:00:00Z “He could not abide bigots and swaggering despots. There was something inside of him that made him stand up for the little guy. To speak for forgotten people and forgotten places.” McCain’s funeral was a melancholy last hurrah for what’s been lost in Trump era 2018-09-01T04:00:00Z “He could not abide bigots and swaggering despots. There was something deep inside him that made him stand up for the little guy — to speak for forgotten people in forgotten places.” Sen. McCain’s farewell carries message for Trump 2018-09-01T04:00:00Z That is the language of dictators and despots. Trump’s Attacks on the News Media Are Getting Even More Dangerous 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z As it is, they behave as despots from a darker era. Opinion | Saudi Arabia’s barbaric price for protest 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z Are there legions of K Street big shots working for foreign despots and parking their riches in Cypriot bank accounts to avoid the I.R.S.? Why Manafort and Cohen Thought They’d Get Away With It 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z In an interview on CNN on Saturday, executive editor Dean Baquet said Trump had “sent a message to despots abroad that you can disrespect the press”. Trump blasts New York Times over White House counsel report in Twitter rant 2018-08-19T04:00:00Z Groups like the Committee to Protect Journalists have noted an uptick in foreign leaders, often autocrats and despots, using the phrase “fake news” to silence unflattering coverage and attack independent reporters. For News Media, a Day of Solidarity in a Summer of Unease 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z Brennan reacted to the news by comparing Trump’s actions to those of “foreign despots and autocrats.” Trump revokes security clearance of former CIA director John Brennan — a leading critic of the president 2018-08-15T04:00:00Z You would describe President Trump as a despot? Christine Hallquist on Her Primary Victory: ‘It Gives the Transgender Community Hope’ 2018-08-15T04:00:00Z Doesn’t he see how this futuristic vision is undermined when he throws critics into dungeons and behaves like a police-state despot? Opinion | Canada won’t look the other way on Saudi Arabia. We shouldn’t either. 2018-08-07T04:00:00Z During the Oval Office discussion, Sulzberger pointed out to Trump that foreign leaders, particularly authoritarians and despots, have taken up Trump’s language and angle of attack. Trump vs. the Times: Inside an Off-the-Record Meeting 2018-07-30T04:00:00Z Most perilous, Trump imagines himself a match for the despots whose company he prefers to democratic leaders. Trump’s homage to Putin at Helsinki proves him unfit to govern 2018-07-22T04:00:00Z From the Western media’s perspective, the story looks clear enough: One of them is a crusader against corruption and abuse, the other is a foreign despot with a trail of bodies. Bill Browder and Vladimir Putin: A tangled tale of two nations, two centuries and a lot of history 2018-07-21T04:00:00Z To put all those pesky democratic types behind him, and relax with a proper despot, will probably feel like a vacation to Donald Trump. Meeting Donald Trump, the Queen Stays Calm and Carries On 2018-07-14T04:00:00Z As someone who has protested against both, I agree, although those who pursue this line of argument are notably absent when it comes to marching against any foreign despot. Protest against what Donald Trump represents, not who he is | Owen Jones 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z It's not that American presidents haven't killed innocents or supported despots when it pleased them. A new axis of evil? Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin share an open contempt for human rights 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z It’s one thing to blow up the G-7 with trade wars and make nice with a murderous North Korean despot; it’s quite another to disappoint the D.C. conservative legal establishment. A watershed moment for the politics of abortion 2018-07-10T04:00:00Z The day after July Fourth — a celebration of the Founding Fathers’ rejection of despots — Trump again praised Russian strongman Vladimir Putin. Kicking NATO, hugging Putin 2018-07-09T04:00:00Z In comments afterward he called the despot “very honorable.” Donald Trump’s presidency: Yet another failed product. Will he ever face the consequences? 2018-07-03T04:00:00Z It is the deserved consequence of minority-rule government protecting the rich over everybody else, corporations over workers, whites over nonwhites and despots over democracies. Opinion | An explosion is coming 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z But the discovery that his offspring had musical talent turned him from merely cold and violent into a despot. Joe Jackson was one of the most monstrous fathers in pop 2018-06-27T04:00:00Z As the U.S. chill with Cuba deepens, Trump has praised one of the world’s most notorious despots, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, and promised economic opportunity if Kim’s government gives up its nuclear weapons. A year after declaring tougher Cuba policy, White House sits on the sidelines as Havana faces change 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z No tendency of Mr. Trump better demonstrates his underlying ideology and intentions than his disparate treatment of Moscow’s reactionary despot and Berlin’s liberal democrat. Opinion | NATO’s most powerful member could become its most destructive 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z He even joked that he wished American media praised his every move the way North Korea’s state-run media fawns over their despot. There are children in cages: It’s time to stop enabling the Trump administration’s vicious lies 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z In López Obrador’s speech, he likened the current administration to the despots and colonists who had controlled the country before the revolution. A New Revolution in Mexico 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z To make up for all the spending, another partner added, Bell “was reduced to more and more scratching around for the despots and other difficult communications jobs from around the world.” The Reputation-Laundering Firm That Ruined Its Own Reputation 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z “They believe that Trump is somehow this autocratic despot and they’re waiting for any words that fill in that narrative,” Barron said in an interview. Trump bombs with joke about North Korean dictator Kim 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z As Republicans held the luncheon Wednesday where Graham fought with Corker and Lee, Flake was on the Senate floor delivering a speech criticizing Trump’s embrace of “despots and dictators” while “ridiculing our allies.” Animosity in the Senate as GOP trades insults over criticism of Trump 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z On the world stage, Trump has gone out of his way to praise murderous despots who brutalize their own citizens, including Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korea’s Kim Jong-un. There are children in cages: It’s time to stop enabling the Trump administration’s vicious lies 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z Moreover, in many ways Kim Jong-un is everything Trump would like to be -- a despot with no restraints on his personal and political power. Psychologist John Gartner on Trump’s behavior: “It’s a coup that’s not moving slowly anym... 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z Trump's budding bromance with the North Korean despot sharply contrasts his contentious relationship with patriots and lawmakers. Trump's bromance with Kim Jong Un on display in Singapore: "We have developed a very special bond" 2018-06-12T04:00:00Z Having shown extreme discomfort in the company of the elected leaders of democratic countries, Trump was, by contrast, all smiles with the murderous young despot. Trump gets cozy with North Korea’s despot while picking fights with Canada’s Trudeau and other allies 2018-06-12T04:00:00Z Mr Trump said it was an “honour” to be sitting down with the North Korean despot. Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un sign the blandest of agreements 2018-06-12T04:00:00Z For the time being, it’s the world’s despots — whether friendly to the United States, hostile or somewhere in-between — with whom Trump seems most eager to deal: Egypt, Russia, Saudi Arabia and, of course, North Korea. Opinion | What if Trump cannot be appeased? 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z What’s become abundantly clear is that Trump’s well-documented fascination with overseas despots and dictators is emerging as a prime animator of his erratic, greenhorn foreign policy agenda. What’s next for Trump after G7: A supervillain alliance with Kim Jong-un, Xi Jinping and Putin? 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z After years of “strategic indifference,” as the haughty diplomats call it, North Korea is now a nuclear nation with long range missiles helmed by a short, fat, murderous little jarhead, a hermit-crab of a despot. Donald Trump seeks peace in Singapore 2018-06-10T04:00:00Z As far as we know, his despot father only traveled out of the country by train, and rarely at that, because of fears of assassination. Isolated Kim takes big gamble leaving home for Trump summit 2018-06-09T04:00:00Z He would point to one of the pillars of our freedom — a free press — which sets us apart from dictatorships and countries ruled by despots. Opinion | Mourning America: What my father, Ronald Reagan, would say today 2018-06-03T04:00:00Z But then he added that, yes, now you come to mention it, if the North Korean despot wouldn’t make a deal in Singapore, his regime would “most likely” have to be “decimated”. John Bolton, the world’s hope 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z When Mr. Trump grew disgruntled with North Korean despot Kim Jong-un, he wrote him a personal — almost corny — letter canceling their planned summit. Trump inherits Reagan’s wind 2018-05-27T04:00:00Z He wonders if the worst despots throughout history, including Mao and Stalin, might be artists in their own right, finding in acts of mass extermination what Jack describes as "the beauty of decay." Lars von Trier’s ‘The House That Jack Built’ and Spike Lee’s ‘BlacKkKlansman’ make for a night of provocation in Cannes 2018-05-15T04:00:00Z He wonders if the worst despots throughout history, including Mao and Stalin, might be artists in their own right, finding in acts of mass extermination what Jack describes as “the beauty of decay.” Lars von Trier’s ‘The House That Jack Built’ and Spike Lee’s ‘BlacKkKlansman’ make for a night of provocation in Cannes 2018-05-15T04:00:00Z At one time, Mr. Mahathir might have been more suited to the hall of infamy that included Asia’s despots and junta chiefs. Malaysia Finds an Unlikely Champion of Democracy: Its Ex-Strongman 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z And the Chinese despots don;t relish that prospect. China Moves to Steady Ties With North Korea Before Trump-Kim Meeting 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z A ruthless despot with a history of sponsoring terrorism surrendered his efforts to build a catastrophic weapon. Libya as a Model for Disarmament? North Korea May See It Very Differently 2018-04-29T04:00:00Z One part of the table will be occupied by Mr. Kim, a young despot atop an insular and impoverished country whose degree of political stability remains a mystery. An Unpredictable Trump and a Risk-Prone Kim Mean High Stakes and Mismatched Expectations 2018-04-23T04:00:00Z Mr Kim’s aim may be to offer a concession big enough to entice Mr Trump into the kind of protracted negotiation that would suit the North Korean despot nicely. What to expect from talks with North Korea 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z Tokyo was dismayed last month when Trump suddenly announced he would meet with Kim Jong Un, the North Korean despot. Snubbed by Trump, Japanese leader returns for summit at Mar-a-Lago 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z The rest of the book, in which she melds her travels as secretary of state with ruminations about despots around the world, is decidedly weaker. Review | Is the United States really on the road to fascism? 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z Indeed, like a besieged despot, he regularly patronises states that voted for him while generally avoiding hostile territory in the hands of the “resistance”. 'He talked about jobs': Trump comes out fighting – and touts ally in Roseanne 2018-04-07T04:00:00Z So the fact that he is a corrupt despot and brutal warmonger doesnt matter as long as he serves the militant and racist Likud Blocks agenda. Saudi Prince Says Israelis Have Right to ‘Their Own Land’ 2018-04-03T04:00:00Z The purpose of the Second Amendment is to provide a firewall against a despot taking control of our country. Second Amendment: Despots 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z In a region of despots, Iraqis talk freely. Fifteen bloody years after America’s invasion, Iraq is getting back on its feet 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z But Bolton, who was a zealot about Saddam Hussein’s supposedly fearsome arsenal, is now hyperventilating over a brutal, but tin-pot, despot who appears to be reaching a modus vivendi with South Korean President Moon Jae-in. John Bolton is a hawk itching for war – and few there to stop him | Walter Shapiro 2018-03-23T04:00:00Z Mr. Trump acts like a nasty, small-minded despot, not the leader of a democracy more than two centuries old in which rule of law is a sturdy pillar. Opinion | We’re not sure why McCabe was fired. But Trump’s tweet suggests the worst. 2018-03-17T04:00:00Z With their influence and wealth, why would the tech giants change from digital dictators to enlightened despots? Meet the tech evangelist who now fears for our mental health 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z Firing all who disagree with you, the act of a despot. In Replacing Tillerson With Pompeo, Trump Turns to Loyalists Who Reflect ‘America First’ Views 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z It is beyond description how decades of safety laws, regulations and enforcement to protect workers and the environment are being eliminated or watered down by one despot. Trump Rollbacks Target Offshore Rules ‘Written With Human Blood’ 2018-03-10T05:00:00Z Stalin was a man of gulags and firing squads, a poster villain for the dangers posed by despots. Armando Iannucci's biting satire takes on history and black comedy in 'The Death of Stalin' 2018-03-06T05:00:00Z Democracy is dying in Cambodia at the hands of a despot, and it would be a double tragedy if Facebook helped, however unwittingly. Opinion | Democracy is dying in Cambodia. Facebook should make sure it doesn’t help kill it. 2018-03-04T05:00:00Z And that self-centered self-assuredness is the slender framework supporting his enthusiasm for adopting the bloodthirsty edicts of a genuine despot and a notoriously repressive quasi-police state. Perspective | Trump actually thinks executing drug dealers would help. That’s the problem. 2018-02-28T05:00:00Z Mabanckou, who has French and Congolese citizenship, warned that the network’s international summits allowed French leaders to have quiet meetings with African dictators and be “uselessly complicit” with despots. Emmanuel Macron challenged over attitude to France’s former colonies 2018-02-19T05:00:00Z The institution, he said, was merely “a continuation of French foreign policy towards its former colonies”, which props up African despots and treats Francophone writers as the exotic “other”. Emmanuel Macron wants to redefine French culture 2018-02-08T05:00:00Z Bell Pottinger was hardly the only British outfit working for rogues and despots, as well as publicly traded companies, nor was it the largest or most profitable. How a P.R. Firm That Aided Despots and Rogues Met Its End in South Africa 2018-02-04T05:00:00Z American rhetoric on human rights is seen cynically in parts of the world where Washington has a history of selectively embracing despots. As Strongmen Steamroll Their Opponents, U.S. Is Silent 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z Critics call Mr Trump an appeaser of despots. The Trump White House has more power to constrain bad guys 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z The FBI is in place to protect our country and if they need to protect us from our unscrupulous and criminally-inclined president and his complicit GOP despots, then let them do their job. F.B.I. Condemns Push to Release Secret Republican Memo 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z At a get-out-the-vote rally in Santo Domingo, a farm town at the foot of the Andes, Mr. Moreno compared his old boss to Napoleon, who espoused democratic ideals but turned into a despot. Ecuador’s President Turns On His Anti-American Mentor 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z And, at this writing, he is in Switzerland, responding by renewing his denunciations of the “fake news” media — an attack on the free press now emulated by despots the world over. Opinion | Republicans redefine morality as whatever Trump does 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z It was his first exposure to extreme international wealth, especially the variety that accrued to despots and their associates. Selling Airborne Opulence to the Upper Upper Upper Class 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z They also stirred controversy when the bank was criticized for environmental destruction and supporting despots. The World Bank Is Remaking Itself as a Creature of Wall Street 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z This leads to empowering charismatic despots and destroying institutions that have done a lot of good. The Mind Meld of Bill Gates and Steven Pinker 2018-01-27T05:00:00Z The president is at home with despots because he sees himself in them. Opinion | Year One in Donald Trump’s World 2018-01-20T05:00:00Z As with most great despots there is a method to his madness. Opinion | Donald Trump’s Radical Honesty 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z When a U.S. leader delegitimizes the free press, he gives cover to despots to do likewise. Trump wins the prize for undermining global press freedom 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z After all, if the entire world is busy congratulating the despot on his newfound rationality, he might well take that as an opportunity to get to work on furthering his nuclear and ballistic missile programs. Editorials from around New England 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z Despotism is the enemy of the people, while a free press is the despot’s enemy and a guardian of democracy, Flake said. Republican senator Jeff Flake: Trump's attacks on media reminiscent of Stalin 2018-01-17T05:00:00Z The free press is the despot’s enemy, which makes the free press the guardian of democracy. In planned speech, Sen. Jeff Flake compares Trump’s media attacks to comments by Stalin 2018-01-14T05:00:00Z Trump does not understand these basic principles; he likes authoritarian despots like Putin who abuse the prosecutorial process to punish political enemies. Amid Calls from Trump, F.B.I. Renews Questions Over Clinton Foundation 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z It seemed that Iran was doomed to remain under the yoke of theocratic despots, even as other brutal regimes in the neighborhood fell. Editorials from around New England 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z This, folks, is dangerous despot territory, and we're firmly in it already. Trump Breaks With Bannon, Saying He Has ‘Lost His Mind’ 2018-01-03T05:00:00Z It's about time the citizens of Iran rose up to oust these despots, and to install representative democracy and freedom. Hard-Liners and Reformers Tapped Iranians’ Ire. Now, Both Are Protest Targets. 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z And in Zimbabwe, the ageing despot Robert Mugabe was peacefully removed from power, sending a chill down the spines of stubborn autocrats in Uganda and elsewhere. Trump, Putin and Xi: a year of tough-guy leaders and foolish brinkmanship 2017-12-25T05:00:00Z Unfortunately, President Trump echoes the rhetoric of despots in these countries with his combative slogan of “fake news.” Opinion | Journalists around the world sit behind bars for telling the truth 2017-12-16T05:00:00Z Do we know if N. Korea's little despot read Kevin's piece in The Times, and was retorting ? Opinion | Roadkill on Capitol Hill 2017-12-09T05:00:00Z Unlike some other despots, he is seemingly still healthy and works long hours—indeed, he micromanages almost every decision. Africa’s ageing leaders don’t know when to quit 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z But now many Taiwanese view Chiang as a despot who repressed island culture and unleashed a deadly campaign against dissent. Taiwan has statues of him everywhere. Now many want Chiang Kai-shek's image removed 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z He might be delusional, or he might simply be asserting the power to blithely override truth, which is the ultimate privilege of a despot. Opinion | Trump Is Cracking Up 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z So what's at the heart of our hatred for despots' wives? Why we love to hate despots' wives 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z The plot fails: one of the conspirators ends up hawking his plan to would-be African despots. Italians are still haunted by the Years of Lead 2017-11-27T05:00:00Z Women are special, which might mean special like a relationship with Britain or special like a golf tournament or special like an evening with a foreign despot. Opinion | I am President Trump, and I think women are very special 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z In my lifetime, newspapers have also helped end unjust wars, brought down bad presidents, nailed despots, shamed crackpots and entertained us just enough to keep us coming back every day. A toast to a small morning pleasure, and a toast to you for reading it 2017-11-24T05:00:00Z In China Trump kow tows to another Asian despot eschewing the universal human rights concerns and aspirations of over a billion people, climate change and the South China Sea incursions condemned by the Hague. Trump Lauds ‘Great Relationship’ With Duterte in Manila 2017-11-13T05:00:00Z Marrying a despot guarantees a woman two things: An extravagant lifestyle, and a fragile reputation. Why we love to hate despots' wives 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z Looks like despots are emboldened, given that the White House appears to condone bad behavior and ignores human rights violations by 'allies' This is very dangerous and reverses decades of human rights progress worldwide. Case of Missing Lebanese Prime Minister Stirs Middle East Tensions 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z This is especially true in the international community, where some see him as nothing more than a despot. Why Mugabe still commands respect 2017-11-19T05:00:00Z But he is reviled in the West as a despot whose disastrous handling of the economy and willingness to resort to violence to maintain power pauperized one of Africa’s most promising states. Mugabe under house arrest resists army pressure to quit 2017-11-16T05:00:00Z As for his wife - characterised by the paper as "Gucci Grace" because of her lavish spending - the generals acted to prevent her from succeeding the 93-year-old despot. Mugabe's 'fall from Grace' in Zimbabwe 2017-11-16T05:00:00Z But secularisation may last only as long as the despots pushing the plan. Despots are pushing the Arab world to become more secular 2017-11-02T04:00:00Z A preliminary investigation revealed he was an adherent of an ideology that regards law enforcement officers as despots and killing them as a form of jihad, the ministry statement said. Tunisia: Alleged extremist stabs 2 officers near Parliament 2017-11-01T04:00:00Z The French would have told you the same thing about any of the despots they supported in Francophone Africa. Kenya poll: A key moment for African democracy 2017-10-24T04:00:00Z But he is reviled in the West as a despot whose disastrous handling of the economy and willingness to resort to violence to maintain power pauperized one of Africa’s most promising states. Mugabe under house arrest resists army pressure to quit 2017-11-16T05:00:00Z The outcry rocketed around the world after this week’s announcement and seemed centered around one primary point: Can you be a “goodwill ambassador” if the world widely regards you as a violent, tyrannical despot? Robert Mugabe, under sanction for human rights abuses, is named a WHO ‘goodwill ambassador’ 2017-10-21T04:00:00Z His new film, The Death of Stalin, is set in 1953 and depicts – with unexpected historical accuracy – the undignified scrabble for dominance that followed the demise of the Soviet despot. Armando Iannucci: ‘I was saved from being a reject by comedy’ 2017-10-15T04:00:00Z Iran’s modern history is replete with examples of the citizenry seeking to reclaim power from despots. How to Defeat the Islamic Republic 2017-10-11T04:00:00Z Many will register skepticism about the terminology, given its association with murderous 20th-century despots whose victims outnumbered Putin’s by many millions. Putin’s Russia, guided by its totalitarian past, has no future 2017-10-04T04:00:00Z It was to Ukraine that Mr. Manafort looked for new business horizons after doing work for despots in Africa and Asia. Schooled in Scandal: What Makes Ukraine a Hotbed of Intrigue 2017-10-07T04:00:00Z Sadly, America is a most notorious nation for mass killings, and not because of civil war or the bloodied thumbs of a despot. Las Vegas shooting one in a string of mass casualty incidents 2017-10-02T04:00:00Z Mr Xi’s frustration with North Korea’s hereditary despot stands out as “the strongest statement that I have ever heard Xi make”, says Mr Baucus. North Korea has brought America and China closer 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z History suggests that even when the international community widely condemns a weapon as inhumane — like chemical weapons — some despots will use them anyway. Why We Must Not Build Automated Weapons of War 2017-09-25T04:00:00Z |
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