We already explored the bizarre things dictators did, and now it's time to bring you their bizarre obsessions. Sure, power, ...

Deposed Syrian president Bashar al-Assad joins a succession of autocratic Arab leaders ousted from power since the Arab Spring uprisings in 2011. His peers in Egypt, Libya, Tunisia and Yemen were ...

President Trump placed Cuba back on the State Department's list of State Sponsors of Terrorism just one week after the Biden administration had removed the country's designation. That puts Cuba back ...

Ilya Yashin is a Russian opposition politician. In many countries around the world — from Russia and Iran to Venezuela and Cuba — dictators regularly draft new laws aimed at destroying ...

Source:Dictators’ Dinners: A Bad Taste Guide to Entertaining Tyrants, Britannica Hitler was a vegetarian and by the end of his life ate only mashed potatoes and broth. Foods of choice ...

So just how do dictators and authoritarians stay in power for so long? In Radio 4's Analysis, James Tilley, a professor of politics at Oxford University, finds out what's in the dictators ...

One expert says her views are ‘so wildly fringe that her potential appointment as DNI is genuinely alarming’, Richard Hall ...

President Trump’s most controversial Cabinet nominees have flooded the zone Thursday in back-to-back-to-back confirmation hearings.

Dictators loom large in the cultural imagination of the 20th and 21st centuries. It’s easy to see why this would be the case, as these periods saw the rise and dominance of despots around the ...

Leaders in Russia, Hungary and El Salvador welcomed the Trump administration’s assault on U.S.A.I.D., which many ...

Real Dictators is the award-winning podcast by Noiser that explores the hidden lives of history’s tyrants, hosted by Paul McGann. The series fuses immersive, dramatic storytelling and interviews ...