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Auténtico Party
The Auténtico Party, also known as Partido Revolucionario Cubano (Auténtico), was a Cuban political party founded in 1934 that governed Cuba from 1944 until Batista's coup in 1952.
Auterion
Auterion is a software company founded in Zurich, Switzerland, in 2017 by Lorenz Meier and Kevin Sartori that builds an enterprise operating system for autonomous drone fleets.
Auteur
Auteur theory: the film-studies model, from Cahiers du cinéma and Truffaut's 1954 essay, that treats a film's director as its author; imported to the US by Andrew Sarris in 1962 and criticized for ignoring collaboration.
Auth0
Auth0 is a customer identity and access management platform providing authentication and authorization for applications and APIs, founded in 2013 by Eugenio Pace and Matias Woloski and acquired by Okta in 2021.
Authentic (racehorse)
Authentic (foaled 2017) is an American Thoroughbred racehorse, by Into Mischief out of Flawless, who won the 2020 Kentucky Derby and Breeders' Cup Classic and was named 2020 Horse of the Year.
Authentic Brands Group
Authentic Brands Group (ABG, Authentic), founded 2010 by Jamie Salter in New York, is a brand management and licensing firm owning 50+ brands including Reebok, Champion, Guess and Elvis Presley, licensing IP to 1,700+ partners for over $38 billion in annual systemwide retail sales; Matt Maddox became CEO in 2026.
Authentic Party of the Mexican Revolution
The Authentic Party of the Mexican Revolution (Partido Auténtico de la Revolución Mexicana, PARM) was a Mexican political party, founded in 1954, that generally backed the PRI's presidential candidates from 1958 onward.
Authenticated encryption
Authenticated encryption (AE) is symmetric-key encryption providing both confidentiality and integrity in one operation; its AEAD variant also authenticates unencrypted data such as packet headers, and underlies TLS 1.3.
Authentication
Authentication is the process by which a system verifies that a claimant genuinely controls the credentials bound to a digital identity, typically via something known, held, or biometric.
Authenticator
An authenticator is something a person knows, possesses, or is, such as a password or security key, used to prove identity to a digital system.
Authenticité
Authenticité, also called recours à l'authenticité, was Mobutu Sese Seko's cultural doctrine in Zaire, launched after his 1965 seizure of power and at its height from 1971 to 1975.
Authenticity (philosophy)
Authenticity in philosophy is the ideal of being true to oneself, central to existentialism. Key sources: Rousseau, Kierkegaard, Heidegger's Eigentlichkeit ('ownedness'), Sartre, Beauvoir, and Taylor's ethic of authenticity.
Author
Author (copyright law): the person who creates a work and initially owns its copyright, under US work-for-hire, EU Infopaq originality, UK CDPA s9(3), and AI-era human-authorship rules.
Authoritarian conservatism
Authoritarian conservatism is a current of conservative politics supporting authoritarian 'government from above', exemplified by Joseph de Maistre and interwar conservative authoritarianism, and distinguished from mainstream conservatism, populism, and fascism.
Authoritarianism
Authoritarianism: non-democratic rule rejecting political pluralism, sustained by legitimation, repression, and co-optation; studied as regime type and personality trait, measured via V-Dem, Freedom House, Polity, and EIU indices amid global autocratization.
Authoritarianism during the Trump presidencies
Authoritarianism during the Trump presidencies: scholarly assessment of democratic erosion, executive aggrandizement, and competitive authoritarianism classifications across Trump's 2017–2021 and 2025– terms, with V-Dem, Freedom House, and expert survey evidence.
Authority
Authority is the recognized right to command and be obeyed, central to political philosophy and sociology. Key concepts include Weber's traditional, charismatic, and legal-rational types, de facto versus legitimate authority, and Raz's Normal Justification Thesis.
Authority (Law & Order: Special Victims Unit)
"Authority" is the 200th episode of Law & Order: SVU (Season 9, Episode 17, aired April 29, 2008), guest-starring Robin Williams as phone-hoaxer Merritt Rook, based on the 2004 Kentucky McDonald's strip-search scam and Stanley Milgram's obedience experiments.
Authority (novel)
Authority (2014) is Jeff VanderMeer's second Southern Reach novel, published May 6, 2014 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. A New York Times bestseller, it shifts the series from Area X to the agency's headquarters, where new director John Rodriguez, called Control, navigates bureaucratic horror.
Authority for Nuclear Safety and Radiation Protection
The Authority for Nuclear Safety and Radiation Protection (Autoriteit Nucleaire Veiligheid en Stralingsbescherming, ANVS) is the independent Dutch regulator for nuclear safety and radiation protection.
Authorization
Authorization, often abbreviated AuthZ, is the process of deciding whether a user, program, or process is permitted to perform an action on a resource, granted only after authentication establishes identity.
Authorization hold
An authorization hold, also called a preauthorization, is a temporary reservation of funds on a payment card, reducing the available balance until the transaction completes.
Authors Guild
The Authors Guild, founded in 1912, is the oldest and largest professional organization for published writers in the United States, advocating for authors' rights, fair pay, and free expression.
Authors Guild v. OpenAI
Authors Guild v. OpenAI is a copyright class action filed in 2023 by the Authors Guild and 17 novelists against OpenAI over training GPT models on their books.
Authorship and result approval in physics collaborations
In large physics collaborations such as ATLAS, CMS, LIGO, and Virgo, authorship is a standing roster of qualified members, though some papers use shorter lists, and internal review precedes journal publication.
Authorship of the Bible
Authorship of the Bible, also called Biblical authorship, concerns who wrote its mostly anonymous books; tradition credits prophets, while scholars date the Torah to the 9th–4th centuries BCE.
Autilus Mekone
Autilus Mekone LP is a Delaware venture capital fund managed from Santa Monica, California by Autilus Partners, founded in 2024 with Michael C. Perkinson as Managing Partner.
Autism Diagnostic Interview-Revised
The Autism Diagnostic Interview-Revised (ADI-R) is a standardized caregiver interview for assessing autism, introduced by Catherine Lord, Michael Rutter, and Ann Le Couteur in 1994.
Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule
The Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule (ADOS) is a semi-structured standardized assessment for autism spectrum disorder, introduced in 1989; its current edition, the ADOS-2, has five modules.
Autism rights movement
Autism rights movement, core of the neurodiversity movement: autistic-led social movement since the 1990s (ANI, Jim Sinclair, ASAN 2006) rejecting the medical model and cure of autism, seeking civil rights, acceptance, and services instead.