Dictators
For more than eight years, Nanette has been waiting for Rodrigo Duterte to pay
The first day of the former Philippine president’s committal hearing for crimes against humanity took place in The Hague on Monday. In Manila, families of the dead gathered to watch the livestream.
- Zach Hope
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- Opinion
- Venezuela crisis
Trump has pulled the US into a joint venture with a leftist kleptocracy
Little now remains of the moral and legal order that we used to call the West.
- Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
With slow, deliberate steps and a smile, ousted autocrat meets his new reality
Ripped from his compound two days earlier as he slept, Nicolás Maduro found himself in a crowded New York courtroom - where he was no longer the highest authority.
- Jonah E. Bromwich, Benjamin Weiser, Maia Coleman and Hurubie Meko
Private yachts and $20,000 hotels: Online posts reveal exiled dictator’s life of luxury
From the moment they fled their Damascus palace via private jets and convoys of cars, the Assad family has maintained an opulent lifestyle.
- Erika Solomon, Christiaan Triebert, Haley Willis and Ahmad Mhidi
The accidental power couple taking on a dictator – and Putin
She was a housewife until her politician husband was sent to jail. When he was finally released, he was shocked at what he found.
- Francesca Ebel
A hot mic revealed Putin’s secret immortality hope. Here’s how that could go
A regenerative medicine expert weighs in on the Russian leader’s ideas about living forever.
- Angus Dalton
- Opinion
- Democracy
Democracy was on the defensive before Trump 2.0. Now it may be dying
Donald Trump is not the cause of democratic decline around the world. He’s a symptom of it. But we’re facing a third wave of global autocratisation.
- Peter Hartcher
Hitler’s favourite filmmaker always denied she was a Nazi. Now we know the truth
The director of a new documentary on Leni Riefenstahl trawled through 700 boxes of material from her estate to find answers.
- Garry Maddox
Peter Hartcher on how Trump is remaking America in China’s image
A secret directive issued by Xi Jinping in 2013 holds the key to the most successful one-party dictatorship in the world. Peter Hartcher in The Morning Edition says it appears the new US president has been reading it.
- Opinion
- Trump's America
Day by day, Trump’s America becomes more like Xi’s China
The West thought China would be entranced by its freedoms. But now an American president is aping Beijing’s repressive controls.
- Peter Hartcher