(THE CONVERSATION) The current state of democracy in the world is fragile. According to the V-Dem Project, which measures global democracy, 41% of the world’s population live in autocratizing ...

Donald Trump was handed a golden opportunity to engage in sportswashing. He blew it. I visited Russia with friends for the ...

The United States offered a visa to Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara, who was expected to fly to Miami on Saturday.

Economic globalization was supposed to encourage democracy around the world. But sometimes the opposite happens.

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The detention of U.S. citizen Min Zin on dubious espionage charges is the latest evidence that Beijing’s campaign to silence ...

The failed 2016 coup attempt did not simply end with the defeat of the so-called plotters. It inaugurated one of the most transformative periods in the history of the Turkish Republic. In the years ...

The June 25 ruling opens the door to a new trial for Claudio Crespo, whose 2019 shooting of a student protester became an ...

If you look closely at the threats facing Guatemalan journalists, one name repeatedly emerges: the Foundation Against ...

Over two decades, political pressure forced California lawmakers to toughen criminal penalties. Now that crime is down, what's next?

China’s Law on Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress, passed in March, takes effect this month. It stands alongside the 1984 Law on Regional Ethnic Autonomy as a foundational, comprehensive statute on ...

Sang Hea Kil said she was ‘relieved’ to get her job back but determined to keep speaking out for Palestinian rights and free speech.Photograph: Sang Hea Kil A tenured professor who was fired last year ...