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Byline: the Monitor's Editorial Board Abstract: The first official plan to search for those Chileans who disappeared during the country's dictatorship strengthens the role of truth in how post-conflict nations [...]

Byline: Ned Temko Columnist Abstract: Three prominent autocrats, in China, Russia, and Iran, are being pressed to change course. Can they do so without fatally hurting their reputations? It is [...]

Byline: Matt Viser and Yasmeen Abutaleb DUA NUSA, Indonesia - When President Biden met here with Xi Jinping, whom he called a 'thug' not long ago, he warmly greeted the [...]

Byline: Ishaan Tharoor Over the past weekend, perhaps as many as 4,000 black-clad Italian fascist sympathizers assembled in the birthplace of their hero. They shouted slogans and raised their arms [...]

Byline: Suzanne Cope A century ago, Benito Mussolini began a dictatorship that would last more than 20 years. It started on a night in late October 1922, when he sent [...]

The last five years have been a master class in comparative politics, because something happened that we'd never seen before at the same time: The world's three most powerful leaders [...]

Byline: Michael E. Ruane Chinese dictator Mao Zedong woke up early and got a shave and a haircut for the first time in months. He put on a crisp new [...]

A wave of misleading revisionism has become epidemic in both autocracies and democracies. It has been notably effective -- and contagious. In Russia, an organization dedicated to remembering Soviet-era abuses [...]

It's shocking to see. Children huddle over precariously built bonfires and parents hold babies to their chests while soldiers, behind thickets of razor wire, look on impassively. But the images [...]

Just over a year ago, on Aug. 9, 2020, I stood in Belarus's presidential election against Aleksandr Lukashenko. The dictator, who has ruled the country for 27 years with an [...]

Byline: Erin Cunningham A Chilean woman living in Australia and accused of multiple kidnappings during the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet must be extradited to face the charges in her [...]

Byline: Kathy Kiely At marquee events during his first 100 days in office, President Joe Biden cast the challenge of our times in stark terms. When the history of this [...]

Byline: Simon Denyer TOKYO - Kim Jong Un is angry, and he's lashing out. North Korea's last economic plan failed 'tremendously,' he complained. And his inner circle lacked an 'innovative [...]

Byline: Brian Klaas For Print Use Only. Throughout his turbulent presidency, President Donald Trump has been erratic and unpredictable. But in one realm, he has been consistent: supporting bloodthirsty despots [...]

Byline: Melissa Macauley A decade ago, mainstream Republicans eyed the tea party movement with tight-grinned consternation. Many Americans suspected that the movement's ideological rigidity was so antithetical to the pragmatic [...]

Byline: Vladimir Kara-Murza For Print Use Only. Europe's two remaining dictators, Alexander Lukashenko of Belarus and Vladimir Putin of Russia, have always had an uneasy relationship. Yet despite their personal [...]

The destruction of the office was a message aimed at President Moon Jae-in of South Korea, who had brokered failed talks between the North and the Trump administration. But it [...]

Byline: Min Joo Kim and Simon Denyer SEOUL - North Korea said it would shut telephone hotlines with South Korea on Tuesday and ultimately sever all communications with its neighbor, [...]

Byline: Federico Finchelstein President Donald Trump appears to believe that he should be the chief enforcer of law in the United States. He has even suggested that Supreme Court Justices [...]

Byline: David Nakamura WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump's decision to engage directly with Kim Jong Un was premised on the bet that three decades of U.S. policy failures to contain [...]

SEOUL, South Korea -- North Korea has blocked the windows of high-rise apartments in Pyongyang, its showcase capital city, to prevent residents from looking down, or spying, on the party [...]

Byline: David Nakamura Days after former White House adviser John Bolton warned against diplomacy with North Korea, a delegation of Kim Jong Un's top aides hustled through a Beijing airport [...]

WASHINGTON -- In his first public comments since leaving the White House, John R. Bolton, the former national security adviser, delivered a stark warning on Monday about President Trump's approach [...]

Egypt's strongman repeats Hosni Mubarak's errors, to everyone's peril. Several years ago, in Cairo, I asked Abdel Fattah el-Sisi to name Hosni Mubarak's biggest mistake. ''He stayed in power for [...]

SEOUL, South Korea -- Kim Jong-un could meet again with President Trump and even visit South Korea in November if expected talks between Pyongyang and Washington make progress on eliminating [...]