Dario Amodei believes it's possible to address the risks of AI without foregoing the solutions it affords.FABRICE COFFRINI/AFP via Getty Images ...

Matthew Chapman is a video game designer who attended Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and lives in San Marcos, Texas. Before joining Raw Story, he wrote for Shareblue and AlterNet, specializing ...

Thomas Paine, The Father of the American Revolution, wrote in opposition to the British Monarchy and in favor of American independence. We live in a period of revolution that is rapidly moving ...

Over the weekend MSNBC made a bunch of high-profile programming changes, firing Joy Reid and demoting Alex Wagner. There’s a lot of internet talk about these moves centering on racism. That’s the ...

A HALLMARK OF LIBERAL DEMOCRACY is the belief that “right makes might,” in Lincoln’s famous articulation; and that the inverse of that equation—that might makes right—is the brutal logic of the ...

As executive director of the nation's largest grassroots organization of attorneys, I have watched with mounting alarm as each new executive order and action pushes us closer to autocracy.

All of this is a process of rearranging government for an accelerated transition from democracy to autocracy. That includes a new domestic role for the military and new autocratic allies abroad.” U.S.

The US president is making the world safe for autocracy. Trump’s assertion that Ukraine was responsible for its own invasion and that Volodymyr Zelenskyy is a dictator was a clarifying moment.

Germany’s economy is stalled and its politics fractured. But it sees an opening for a new chancellor to lead Europe’s response to a changing America. By Jim Tankersley and Christopher F ...

Trump seems to be trying to break that record. He is going right down the list of steps in the Autocracy Handbook: Step 1. Make an enemy of multiple subpopulations. Check: immigrants, women ...