🇺🇸44th U.S. President Barack Obama warned of a “rising tide of authoritarianism,” even in countries once thought resilient against it, CNN reports. The former American leader stressed that politicians are attacking civil society, undermining press freedom, and using courts as tools of pressure. While he did not name his successor directly, Obama openly criticized political forces whose slogans sound like “bringing things back to the way they were.” Earlier this year, he repeatedly voiced oppos