Authoritarianism

Pressure is growing from activists and GOP politicians who want the U.S. to bow out of the games in protest of China's human rights record and other conduct.

An activist in Uganda, who has fought an authoritarian government with vulgar poetry, is now in exile. Fleeing a broad crackdown against the opposition in the country.

With the event's Trump-heavy lineup, emphasis on voter fraud, and lack of ideological diversity, former chair Al Cardenas wants no part of it.

Once considered one of the most stable democracies in Latin America, Venezuela is now a country in crisis. Two men claim to be president, inflation runs rampant, citizens suffer from in

Even Twitter, the highest-ranked company in Ranking Digital Rights' study, gets dinged for insufficient transparency. And Amazon's rating is far worse.

Imagining themselves as virile heroes from Ayn Rand's terrible books, Republicans have become the pro-death party

Maintaining a shared sense of nationhood has always been a struggle for a country defined not by organic ties, but by a commitment to a set of ideals

Amed Khan writes that China's treatment of the Uyghurs is a genocide that poses an urgent test for President Joe Biden's new administration and for the international community. "Either the United States and the world will finally go beyond tepid criticism and respond with real action, or we can forget about values, universal rights, and international law."

It will be complicated, but hopefully not impossible.

The Senate confirmed Linda Thomas-Greenfield to be the next US Ambassador to the United Nations Tuesday.

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Study investigates ideological attitudes using an unprecedented number of cognitive and personality tests, and finds that people who lean towards 'extreme pro-group action' have a similar type of mind.

The taboo about teaching religious faith in public schools is now increasingly set aside in public schools: presentations on Islam frequently cross the line.

The White House has begun to communicate with Iran about its detention of US citizens, an official said Sunday. "We have begun to communicate with the Iranians on this issue," national …

The unstoppable descent of a once great power into social catastrophe and strategic irrelevance

Ask an Expert: Suzanne Nossel of PEN America on open expression in the Digital Age

At a town hall meeting yesterday, President Biden stumbled over a morally confused statement suggesting he is unlikely to take meaningful act

Abstract: The Boogaloo movement, which coalesced online in late 2019 and manifested offline in 2020, has quickly evolved into a significant domestic violent extremist threat. It has also proven to be deeply challenging for online monitoring and evaluation due to its adaptive use of memes and coded language that blurs the lines between irony and incitement. … Continued

Nearly a year and a half since a tweet led China to stop broadcasting the NBA's games on CCTV, the impasse remains with no end in sight.

Trump's late-term betrayals of American trust don't just require more information. They call for a criminal investigation. Here's why.