When a team leader's style can be summarized with "my way or the highway," that leader can accurately be called an autocrat. Autocratic leadership, also known as authoritarian leadership, is a style ...

For Millennia exile has been a way for critics to escape the iron fist of tyrants and for regimes to silence naysayers. Yet the way authoritarian regimes interact with dissenting opinions abroad is ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about leadership development and building strengths. There have been several calls of late for greater autocracy on the ...

The competing systems of power in the United States are divided between oligarchy and autocracy. There are no other alternatives. Neither are pleasant. Each have peculiar and distasteful ...

The Open Mind explores the world of ideas across politics, media, science, technology, and the arts. The American Prospect is republishing this edited excerpt. Alexander Heffner: Masha, if the United ...