Beijing hopes its social credit system will quickly punish companies accused of wrongdoing. U.S. firms could get hit, too.
Tag: Civil Rights and Liberties
‘Urgent Resolve’ to Fight Domestic Terrorism Faces Tall Legal Obstacles
American law enforcement has far more latitude to investigate foreign terrorists than domestic ones. A shift would mean rethinking that strategy — and weathering the political blowback.
In Battle for Hong Kong, the Field Has Tilted Toward Beijing
Unlike China’s retreat after big protests in 2003, this time it is not likely to back down.
Murray Polner, Antiwar Editor and Author, Is Dead at 91
An outspoken pacifist, Mr. Polner founded the progressive public affairs journal Present Tense in 1973 and was its only editor until it closed in 1990.
On the Surface, Hungary Is a Democracy. But What Lies Underneath?
Hungary has the trappings of a 21st-century European democracy, but uses its devices to exert the same kind of control as the autocracies of the Cold War.
Independent Autopsy of Transgender Asylum Seeker Who Died in ICE Custody Shows Signs of Abuse
The autopsy raised questions about how Roxsana Hernandez Rodriguez, 33, a transgender woman from Honduras, was treated in custody before she died from illness.