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The Iranian Ayatollahs, Chinese communist leaders, and autocrats in Moscow and Minsk would celebrate the demise of RFE/RL after 75 years.—
Brian Stelter,
CNN,
16 Mar. 2025 -
As Carol continues her search for Daryl stateside, the scraggly drifter finds himself on the wrong side of French autocrats while protecting a young boy (Louis Puech Scigliuzzi) and a nun (Clémence Poésy), who are trying to flee a religious cult that believes the young man is their messiah.—
Declan Gallagher,
EW.com,
14 Mar. 2025
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He was deployed to Panama as a part of Operation Just Cause, a U.S. mission that ended with the surrender of the Central American country's dictator, Gen. Manuel Noriega.—
Ashley Hume,
Fox News,
14 Mar. 2025
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As Catholic journalist and historian Emilio Mignone has documented, would-be dictators General Jorge Rafael Videla and Admiral Emilio Massera met with church leaders the night before their March 1976 coup and on the day itself, receiving guarantees of support.—
Federico Perelmuter,
The Dial,
13 Mar. 2025
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Laws, amendments, and constitutions have never mattered to tyrants, particularly those tyrants forced with making and enforcing laws, amendments, and constitutions.—
Chadd Scott,
Forbes,
7 Mar. 2025
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That’s classically how a demagogue works and how a demagogue becomes a tyrant.—
Sean Illing,
Vox,
22 Feb. 2025
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Dozens of pharaohs left their mark on the site, which was built between the 12th and 20th dynasties, and researchers are still working to understand its historical significance thousands of years later.—
Irene Wright,
Miami Herald,
28 Feb. 2025
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At the precise peak of our Warrior Two, Tess recounted the ancient royals and pharaohs of 50 B.C. who would wear snakes as accessories to display their power and status.—
Teaghan Skulszki,
Outside Online,
27 Jan. 2025
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European leaders had tried to guide Trump in the days before Zelenskyy arrived, but Trump is wedded to his demented dream of a troika of strongmen — himself, Putin and Xi Jinping — astride the world.—
Maureen Dowd,
The Mercury News,
4 Mar. 2025
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The international order forged after World War II is imploding, squeezed on all sides by the return of strongmen, nationalism and spheres of influence — with President Trump leading the charge.—
Zachary Basu,
Axios,
28 Feb. 2025
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Our foundational document, held and displayed in the National Archives building on the National Mall, insists that all men are created equal and rails against the tyranny of despots and kings.—
Elaine Weiss,
The Atlantic,
6 Mar. 2025
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His pain pours out, like a long cry from Syria’s dungeons, a cry that was silenced during more than half a century of rule by brutal despots, Bashar al-Assad, and his father, Hafez, before him.—
Scott Peterson,
The Christian Science Monitor,
31 Jan. 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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Elsewhere, June’s former overlord and foe, Serena Joy Watford (Yvonne Strahovski), tries to make sense of her role in this new landscape, and perhaps even bring reform to Gilead.—
Jon Blistein,
Rolling Stone,
19 Mar. 2025
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Kitana, as well as Martyn Ford (House of David, Those About to Die) as Outworld overlord Shao Kahn.—
Nick Romano,
EW.com,
17 Mar. 2025
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“Monocrat.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/monocrat. Accessed 24 Mar. 2025.
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