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Unlike the United States, Russia never chastised the region’s autocrats with speeches about democracy and human rights.—
Michael McFaul,
Foreign Affairs,
25 July 2025 -
Countries run by controlling autocrats go to great lengths to clamp down on the opposition and maintain the upper hand.—
New York Daily News Editorial Board,
New York Daily News,
4 July 2025
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Fear is the tool of a tyrant, wielded to suppress independent thought.—
Kate Plummer,
MSNBC Newsweek,
21 July 2025
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Our tyrant locks up immigrants, comptrollers too, And sows chaos no matter the cost, so, what’s a public theater to do, To ensure that our democracy is not lost?—
James Folta,
Literary Hub,
17 July 2025
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The Boys mothership show is heading towards its fifth and final season, premiering next year, and so far, no one seems powerful enough to take down the dictator supe.—
EW.com,
EW.com,
25 July 2025
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In 2003: Qusay and Uday Hussein, sons of Iraqi dictator Sadam Hussein, were killed by U.S. Special Forces and infantrymen from 101st Airborne after a three-hour firefight in the city of Mosul, Iraq.—
Lorenzino Estrada,
AZCentral.com,
23 July 2025
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The trailer teases fights from the critical tournament, where if Earth's fighters lose, the Outworld overlord Shao Kahn (played by Martyn Ford) will take over.—
Sharareh Drury,
People.com,
17 July 2025
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How Businesses Must Respond to the Existential Risks of AI This is not a warning about robot overlords.—
Jason Snyder,
Forbes.com,
9 July 2025
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In the year 1260 B.C., Noni is tasked with taking down a man known as the Lion (Cress Williams), a former Wakandan who took their nation's coveted technology and transformed himself into a warlord.—
EW.com,
EW.com,
24 July 2025
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Brolin made his foray into the Marvel Cinematic Universe as the warlord Thanos in the Avengers film series.—
Sarah Weldon,
EW.com,
7 June 2025
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By most historical accounts, the Roman Emperor Caligula was a nightmare–a sadistic, debaucherous, and unstable despot.—
Andrew Paul,
Popular Science,
10 July 2025
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The American Declaration of Independence and Constitution frightened monarchies and despots around the world without a single bullet or gunboat.—
Bruce Fein,
Baltimore Sun,
14 Apr. 2025
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With The Terminator in the rearview, and a great boost to Arnold Schwarzenegger's career, Cameron was tight with the Austrian strongman's agent, Lou Pitt.—
Jordan Hoffman,
EW.com,
18 July 2025
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The United States and Europe, puzzlingly, back Turkey's strongman, enabling the emergence of a new, full-fledged autocracy on Europe's periphery.—
Jesse Edwards,
MSNBC Newsweek,
15 July 2025
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His personal goal was surely the vanity of wanting to have never been wrong and the superpower of always being right—George Orwell speaks of the theological nature of totalitarians, who must constantly alter the past to claim to be always right in the present.—
Rebecca Solnit
April 29,
Literary Hub,
29 Apr. 2021
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Ridicule only appeals to cool kids on coasts and the college towns and totalitarians.—
Letters to the Editor,
Orange County Register,
17 Oct. 2020
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“Autarch.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/autarch. Accessed 2 Aug. 2025.
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