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For Some International Students, U.S. Dreams Dim Under Trump

May 16, 2025May 16, 2025Jenny Gross and Amanda HolpuchComments Off on For Some International Students, U.S. Dreams Dim Under Trump

Once drawn to American universities as havens, some students from abroad are finding the United States is not the bedrock of free speech they had expected.

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A Quarter-Billion Dollars for Defamation: Inside Greenpeace’s Huge Loss

March 31, 2025March 31, 2025KAREN ZRAICKComments Off on A Quarter-Billion Dollars for Defamation: Inside Greenpeace’s Huge Loss

A pipeline company’s lawsuit against the environmental group could chill free speech, experts said. First Amendment issues are likely to figure prominently in an appeal.

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Humiliation as Propaganda: Videos of Shackled Detainees Have History in El Salvador

March 19, 2025March 19, 2025James Wagner and Sarah KerrComments Off on Humiliation as Propaganda: Videos of Shackled Detainees Have History in El Salvador

A video showing rough treatment of deportees over the weekend was an extraordinary depiction by U.S. standards, but not by El Salvador’s.

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Paul Stephenson, 87, Dies; Advanced Britain’s Civil Rights Movement

November 10, 2024November 11, 2024Trip GabrielComments Off on Paul Stephenson, 87, Dies; Advanced Britain’s Civil Rights Movement

The bus boycott and one-man pub sit-in that he led in the mid-1960s helped pave the way for a law outlawing discrimination in public places.

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Why Democracy Lives and Dies by Math

October 24, 2024October 25, 2024Siobhan RobertsComments Off on Why Democracy Lives and Dies by Math

A documentary filmmaker and a mathematician discuss our fear of numbers and its civic costs.

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Pakistan’s Internet Disruptions Stoke Fears of Government Surveillance

August 20, 2024August 20, 2024Zia ur-Rehman and Christina GoldbaumComments Off on Pakistan’s Internet Disruptions Stoke Fears of Government Surveillance

Disruptions have fueled claims from rights groups that the Pakistani authorities are introducing technology to surveil and control the country’s internet.

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Has Power Moderated Giorgia Meloni? Not to Italy’s Same-Sex Parents.

August 18, 2024EMMA BUBOLAComments Off on Has Power Moderated Giorgia Meloni? Not to Italy’s Same-Sex Parents.

Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has mostly shown a pragmatic streak abroad. But at home, her government is plunging many gay families into panic.

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Japanese American Civil Rights Group Pushes for Gaza Cease-Fire

May 9, 2024May 9, 2024AMY QINComments Off on Japanese American Civil Rights Group Pushes for Gaza Cease-Fire

The call for a truce followed months of pressure from younger members who believed the group had a duty to stand up for Palestinians.

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Canada Wants to Regulate Online Content. Critics Say It Goes Too Far.

April 9, 2024Vjosa IsaiComments Off on Canada Wants to Regulate Online Content. Critics Say It Goes Too Far.

A bill introduced by the Canadian government to safeguard against online harms has stirred opposition from free speech advocates.

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Aleksei Navalny, Russian Opposition Leader, Dies in Prison at 47

February 16, 2024February 16, 2024Andrew E. Kramer and Valerie HopkinsComments Off on Aleksei Navalny, Russian Opposition Leader, Dies in Prison at 47

The Kremlin’s fiercest critic, whose work brought arrests, attacks and a near-fatal poisoning in 2020, had spent months in isolation.

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How China Uses Work to Reshape Uyghur Identity and Control a Strategic Region

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An Ex-Convict and Cartel Lawyers Are Among Mexico’s Judicial Candidates

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UK Weighs Sanctions on 2 Israeli Ministers as Gaza Crisis Worsens

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