How to Become a Tyrant

Interested in becoming a tyrant? There are rules, and the playbook for a rise to dictatorship starts with one of historys most brutal: Adolf Hitler.

When keeping your population under control, is it better to be loved or feared? Idi Amin certainly thought he knew the right answer to that question.

Free speech? Right to assembly? Rebel-turned-dictator Muammar Gaddafi realized that civil liberties had to go when reshaping society. But he got soft.