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By prohibiting questions and challenges, autocrats gain the power to limit how people think and control their bodies.—
Elizabeth Anne Wood,
The Conversation,
21 Oct. 2025 -
Egyptian-British blogger and activist Alaa Abdel-Fattah,rose to prominence as an impassioned voice in the Arab Spring uprising that toppled Egypt's veteran autocrat and has since become a symbol of the struggle for human rights in his country.—
Reuters,
NBC news,
22 Sep. 2025
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Several of their fellow Big Brother housemates shared their excitement for the couple in the comment section.—
Madison E. Goldberg,
PEOPLE,
24 Oct. 2025
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Most people do, in fact, experience ADHD symptoms from time to time, says Russ Jones, an ADHD productivity coach and host of the ADHD Big Brother podcast.—
Angela Haupt,
Time,
22 Oct. 2025
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He had been found guilty of conspiring to raise funds from late Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi to finance his campaign, and became the first post-World War II leader in France to go to jail.—
Jesse Whittock,
Deadline,
24 Oct. 2025
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These deployments are nothing more than partisan spite from an increasingly unhinged aspiring dictator, and the Supreme Court must halt them.—
Newsweek Contributors,
MSNBC Newsweek,
22 Oct. 2025
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As historian Timothy Snyder warns, tyrants will always take advantage of a national crisis to consolidate their power and remove their opponents’ civil liberties.—
Rev. Nathan Empsall,
MSNBC Newsweek,
21 Oct. 2025
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So how should CHROs and other talent leaders handle reports of an office tyrant?—
Susan Caminiti,
CNBC,
14 Oct. 2025
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The announcement comes weeks after officials announced that a pharaoh's priceless bracelet had been stolen the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.—
Andrea Margolis,
FOXNews.com,
17 Oct. 2025
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The mysteries of Cleopatra’s death Despite her short life of just 39 years, Cleopatra made an impact on the ancient world as one of a handful of female rulers and the last pharaoh of Egypt.—
Ashley Strickland,
CNN Money,
26 Sep. 2025
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Despite Republican efforts to identify their party with Israel and to tag Democrats as providing aid and comfort to its enemies, younger evangelical Christians are breaking with their parents on the issue, seeing Israel as an oppressor rather than as a victim.—
David M. Halbfinger,
New York Times,
12 Oct. 2025
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There were only the oppressors and the oppressed.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
2 Oct. 2025
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Many, however, see the strikes as a warning to Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro, who faces criminal charges in the United States and has a $50 million reward for information that leads to his capture.—
Emily Goodin,
Miami Herald,
24 Oct. 2025
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With so many governments today led by strongmen—or would-be strongmen—in Africa and beyond, Odinga’s passing is a landmark loss.—
Ian Bremmer,
Time,
22 Oct. 2025
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Phantom Thread is a masterfully claustrophobic portrayal of a ’50s fashion house, as well as a nuanced depiction of a petty despot ruling over his small kingdom.—
Alison Willmore,
Vulture,
25 Sep. 2025
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Armed with such sensational journalistic and fictional sources, artists from across the world, one after the other, proclaimed in virtual artistic unison that King Henry had been nothing more than a despot who essentially re-enslaved his people.—
Marlene L. Daut
September 22,
Literary Hub,
22 Sep. 2025
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“Monocrat.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/monocrat. Accessed 27 Oct. 2025.
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