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monocrat

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as in autocrat

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These innovations may reduce the number of bureaucrats autocrats need.

— Seva Gunitsky, Foreign Affairs, 1 Oct. 2026
In other countries that have recently experienced democratic backsliding, such as Turkey and Hungary, installing loyalists in the judiciary and in government agencies has played a key role in helping autocrats consolidate power.

— Eyal Press, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2026

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Devens ultimately won Big Brother in a vote of six to one from the jury, beating out runner-up Taylor Brown.

— McKinley Franklin, HollywoodReporter, 2 Oct. 2026
Alison Hammond joined the This Morning team in 2003 after originally rising to fame on Big Brother in 2002.

— Jake Kanter, Deadline, 2 Oct. 2026

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Finchelstein, Stanley and others warn that the most dangerous moment for democracies can be when a wanna-be dictator loses momentum.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 2 Oct. 2026
No matter how powerful, dictators have always needed subordinates—censors, propagandists, security guards, police officers, intelligence analysts, and local bureaucrats—to carry out their orders.

— Seva Gunitsky, Foreign Affairs, 1 Oct. 2026

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Plato warned that an unhealthy democracy can easily fall prey to a tyrant.

— Kenneth Michael White, The Conversation, 10 Sep. 2026
Some of the rumors, and a few of the reports at the time, paint Khrzhanovsky as a tyrant who went mad with power, like Colonel Kurtz in Heart of Darkness (or maybe Francis Ford Coppola making Apocalypse Now).

— Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 8 Sep. 2026

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While many of the Middle East’s archaeological sites invoke pharaohs, Nabataeans, Romans, Islamic civilization, and Crusaders, the columns of Al-Rajajil are an echo of a prehistoric period wrapped in mystery.

— Taylor Luck, Christian Science Monitor, 7 Oct. 2026
She’s loved by her family of humans (the Osteens) and other farm animals (including Elsie the cow; goats Honey, Dolly, Roger, Polly and Dodger; and Tom, the king of the turkeys who stalks around his enclosure like a pharaoh).

— Emily L. Mahoney, Miami Herald, 4 Sep. 2026

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Can an accurate story of a system of oppression be derived from sources created and preserved by the oppressors?

— Drew Gilpin Faust, The New York Review of Books, 19 Sep. 2026
For the left that supports the Palestinian cause, Muslims are the oppressed and the West – including Israel – are the oppressors… Whether Muslims hold conservative-religious views in this context is irrelevant.

— Tyler Speicher, FOXNews.com, 15 Sep. 2026

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Belarus, a completely landlocked country thousands of miles away from America’s farm country that is run by a strongman ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

— Matt Egan, CNN Money, 23 Sep. 2026
Robert Mugabe, longtime strongman of Zimbabwe, printed money to ensure his party kept control of the country and to finance the nation's deficits.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 19 Sep. 2026

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