I’ve never been more alarmed about the state of our democracy. The U.S. is sliding toward authoritarianism faster than ever, while corporate media turns a blind eye. That’s why Common Dreams exists—to ...

It's one measure of Latin America's arduous history that it has spawned so many books and movies about dictatorship. Over the years, I've been through scads of them, from novels by Gabriel García ...

Liberal presidential historian and frequent MSNBC guest Michael Beschloss uttered a dire prediction about former President Trump securing re-election this week. Appearing on MSNBC’s "Morning Joe" on ...

Today, the British-made Skyvan airplane, now 50 years old, is grounded for good at the former Navy School of Mechanics, or ESMA, in Buenos Aires. The facility, once a death camp, is now a museum and a ...

Recently, President Trump claimed he was not a dictator but said many Americans would like him to be. His statement about people wanting a dictatorship is shocking. However, unlike the citizens of ...

Footage of a man describing the U.S. as a dictatorship has gone viral and been viewed millions of times. "It is a dictatorship, and there is not much we can do about it right now," creator ...

Standing beneath the birch and flowering jacaranda trees at what used to be ESMA (the acronym in Spanish for the Navy School of Mechanics) it's not easy to picture the horrors that took place at this ...

An MSNBC presidential historian warned on Saturday if former President Trump were to win back the White House that the United States would devolve into "dictatorship and anarchy." "He is saying, I ...

Javier Milei strode onto the stage in Santiago, flung up his arms and gave a bow to an economist with a front-row seat: Rolf ...

SANTIAGO, Aug 29 (Reuters) - A 42-year-old lawyer who was stolen at birth during the rule of Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet and raised in the United States has traveled thousands of miles to South ...