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This bifurcation, which began during the Reagan years—and was anticipated by Richard Nixon’s administrative presidency—has accelerated in the decades since, fueled by the rise of populism, its political power, and its antidemocratic sentiments.—
Terry M. Moe,
Harpers Magazine,
16 July 2025 -
Transparency and accountability are what separate democracy from authoritarianism and legitimate law enforcement from the secret police in antidemocratic regimes.—
Christy Lopez Guest,
Mercury News,
5 July 2025
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What was mostly missing was the occasional cool front that pushes out the most oppressive heat and humidity.—
Staff And Wire Reports,
Boston Herald,
10 Aug. 2025
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Philadelphia had 29 days, Washington had 27 days and Baltimore had 24 days where the highest dew point simmered to at least 75 degrees, which even the the weather service office in Tampa calls oppressive, according to weather service data.—
Preston Fore,
Fortune,
10 Aug. 2025
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The story, which comprises three books altogether, explores the dangerous yet heroic actions taken by a group of rebels to topple a totalitarian regime that has inflicted fear and hatred upon its citizens.—
Robert English,
EW.com,
30 July 2025
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Set to Dmitri Shostakovich’s Symphony No.10 (a work long associated with the composer’s fraught relationship with Stalin) the film interrogates the tension between artistic freedom and totalitarian control.—
Nargess Banks,
Forbes.com,
1 July 2025
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The interim government, formed shortly afterward under the leadership of Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus, was widely hailed as a new chapter for Bangladesh: a chance to repair years of authoritarian rule, enforced disappearances, corruption and human rights abuses.—
Shamim Chowdhury,
NPR,
5 Aug. 2025
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For any authoritarian regime, political succession is a moment of peril, and for all its strengths, the CCP is no exception.—
TYLER JOST,
Foreign Affairs,
4 Aug. 2025
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The most recent of these, Wildcat Dome, originally published in Japan in 2013 and newly translated by Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda, is an ambitious, at times magisterial, epic.—
Katie Kitamura,
Harpers Magazine,
16 July 2025
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Twain’s narrative boasts some—discrepancies is too magisterial a word … peculiarities, say.—
Caity Weaver,
The Atlantic,
5 June 2025
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“Antirepublican.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/antirepublican. Accessed 22 Aug. 2025.
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