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 ...

A response to the letter writers who make claims that if Donald Trump is elected, the US will turn into an autocracy. Example: "If you vote for Donald Trump, you will get a dictator on the first day.

This past week, Donald Trump, the autocrat-as-defendant, was in court, going so far as to contribute to a closing statement, which is about as rare as a passenger walking up to the cockpit and taking ...