So you want to change a democracy into an autocracy. Where to begin? Well, Justice William Brennan famously wrote that “the First Amendment is the cornerstone of democracy.” To transition to an ...

There are things we all can do to push back against and mitigate the autocratic turn our nation has taken. The Supreme Court announced a fast-track argument schedule in the most consequential voting ...

`In Guyana, we have recently seen official inquisitions into the tax status of NGOs, calls for new laws to ‘regulate’ NGOs, and public campaigns of vilification against particular NGOs and their ...

I note Dr. Bertrand Ramcharan’s latest tilting at the imagined ogre of autocracy with his latest contortion, “Empirical autocracy”, both in his Stabroek News column of October 16 and his October 24 ...