Maduro’s arrest marks the latest instance in which the U.S. has played a key role in removing an authoritarian leader from ...

Professor and authoritarianism scholar Ruth Ben-Ghiat joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about dictators and fascism. Why do people support dictators? How do dictators come to ...

Throughout history, some of humanity's most feared leaders harbored surprisingly ordinary fears. Recent psychological research and historical analysis reveal that beneath the iron fists of dictators ...

Muammar Gaddafi continues to hold tightly to power even as NATO bombs rain down on Tripoli. Syrian autocrat Bashar al-Assad has killed more than 1,000 of his own people in an effort to quash protests.

SAO PAULO — Brazil's government on Monday apologized to families of victims of the country's military dictatorship whose remains could be among those found in a clandestine mass grave 35 years ago.

Their much talked about brief alliance, despite differences, helped end nearly a decade of dictatorship under General Hussain ...

The dictatorship of President Daniel Ortega and his wife, Vice President Rosario Murillo, in Nicaragua has banned more than 16,500 religious processions and activities in recent years and has ...