Almost overnight, countries that had long outsourced their energy security to autocrats found their supplies cut, and their economies shaken.
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Jennifer Granholm,
semafor.com,
30 Apr. 2026
Even as long-reigning autocrats such as Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei are removed from power, the outlook for the global state of democracy remains highly uncertain.
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Yana Gorokhovskaia,
Washington Post,
19 Mar. 2026
Russian athletes are routinely asked to answer for the actions of their government, yet athletes from other countries are rarely subjected to the same scrutiny or treated as though they are personally aligned with war criminals or dictators.
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Jon Root OutKick,
FOXNews.com,
7 June 2026
Blatter also suggested that Infantino, like a lot of dictators, has started acting withdrawn.
This president, who called his treasonous supporters to arms, wants our tax dollars to compensate these tyrants.
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Sun Sentinel Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
27 May 2026
Because, after all, as in all of Haber’s novels, the point is not really what is happening in the world but what is happening in the mind—in this case the mind of the pettiest of tyrants.
In the vacuum left by absent landlords and ineffective courts, communities turned instead to local strongmen—enforcers who offered protection for a price.
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Encyclopedia Britannica,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
13 May 2026
Just beyond the respectable edges of Paris, among the soothsayers and strongmen, works Suzanne (Anaïs Demoustier).
The Boys – Season 5 (Prime Video) Things have gone from bad to worse in the final season of The Boys, Prime Video’s irreverent superhero satire about America succumbing to charismatic despots and fascistic opportunists.
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Erik Kain,
Forbes.com,
15 May 2026
Underlying such obvious acts of aggression lies an insidious tendency for transnational repression to flow from despots into democracies, oppressing lawyers of all nationalities in the process.
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