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Eruption of warfare The army and RSF had at one point been in a fragile partnership together, jointly staging a coup in 2021 that derailed the transition from the Islamist rule of Omar al-Bashir, a longtime autocrat who was ousted in 2019.—
FOXNews.com,
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Instead, the country has a would-be autocrat, with a Mt. Whitney-size grudge against California, seeking to establish himself as King Donald the First.—
Mark Z. Barabak,
The Mercury News,
22 Feb. 2025
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Correa is accused of participating in beatings, electrocutions and other forms of abuses while allegedly acting as part of a death squad operating under former Gambian dictator Yahya Jammeh.—
Gordon G. Chang,
MSNBC Newsweek,
8 Apr. 2025
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The trouble with international prosecutions The ICC has a long list of outstanding arrest warrants, including for former dictator Omar al-Bashir, who ruled Sudan for three decades before being deposed in 2019.—
Jessie Yeung,
CNN Money,
5 Apr. 2025
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Hope: Ultimately, the protests suggest the possibility that, eventually, an overwhelming majority of Palestinians will never again allow themselves to be ruled by revanchist tyrants of any shade.—
Bret Stephens,
Mercury News,
4 Apr. 2025
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Synopsis: Before kings and empires feared him, a tyrant sought to erase him.—
Jill Goldsmith,
Deadline,
2 Apr. 2025
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Archaeology: The huge tomb of an unknown pharaoh, estimated to be 3,600 years old, was unearthed south of Cairo.—
Natasha Frost,
New York Times,
28 Mar. 2025
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He is believed to be the pharaoh that ruled over Egypt in the Book of Exodus.—
Andrea Vacchiano,
Fox News,
19 Sep. 2024
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In 2008, a constitutional provision limiting presidents to a maximum of two terms forced Russia’s strongman, Vladimir Putin, to step aside.—
Michael Wilner,
Los Angeles Times,
3 Apr. 2025
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This gradual breakdown of self-worth can push the underdog into aligning their life with the strongman’s desires rather than their own.—
Mark Travers,
Forbes,
13 Mar. 2025
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The Mobutu regime finally fell to rebels in 1997, and the despot who had looted over $5 billion in wealth from his land was forced into exile to Morocco.—
Saleem H. Ali,
Forbes,
13 Mar. 2025
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When Trump announced recently that the program would be killed, there were celebratory announcements from petty despots around the world—in Belarus, Venezuela, Nicaragua, El Salvador.—
Jon Lee Anderson,
The New Yorker,
25 Feb. 2025
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Ridicule only appeals to cool kids on coasts and the college towns and totalitarians.—
Letters to the Editor,
Orange County Register,
17 Oct. 2020
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Under the unconditional patronage of Russian President Vladimir Putin, Kadyrov rules his republic as a totalitarian, and has done so since taking power in May 2004, after his father, then President Akhmad Kadyrov, was assassinated.—
Layla Taimienova,
Foreign Affairs,
10 May 2017
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These shadow networks outside the gaze of corporate IT overlords have become a honeypot for sensitive data and proprietary information.—
Zak Doffman,
Forbes,
25 Mar. 2025
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Oh, and—little detail—the earth’s surface has, apparently, been wiped clean by a world-historic climate event and a nuclear war, and everybody who survived is living in a bunker gussied up by its billionaire overlords to look like a perpetually temperate American suburb.—
Vinson Cunningham,
The New Yorker,
17 Mar. 2025
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“Monocrat.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/monocrat. Accessed 14 Apr. 2025.
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