The security and safety of journalists in exile remain precarious, because of the failure of States to uphold their international obligations.

For more than four decades, Iranians have resisted through underground clubs, labor strikes, and other everyday acts of defiance.

Inside the most dangerous public-private “partnership” in modern U.S. history

A survey of more than 500 political scientists finds that the vast majority think the United States is moving swiftly from liberal democracy toward some form of authoritarianism.

It’s later than you think, but it’s not too late.

To sustain this new system, Thornton told me, nonprofit news organizations need diversified funding from membership, sponsorship, events, and philanthropy, which will need to support local media in perpetuity, the way they do the arts.

The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them.

The Trump administration is quietly creating offshore detention, disappearance, and exile—and Americans could soon be next.

Erik Prince wants to cut a deal to transport detainees from the US to El Salvador.

The courts, the institutions, the protections—they’re not failing. They’re being dismantled.

Fleeing America before you are threatened is a lot like obeying in advance.

What happens when a country stops pretending to care about democracy and just lets the billionaires run wild? Look no further than Putin’s Russia — a place where wealth buys protection, loyalty buys power, and corruption isn’t hidden, it’s institutionalized.

If American democracy is to prevail, pro-democracy forces must follow the handbook that has enabled oppositions to stop would-be autocrats in other countries.

Civil rights advocates and historians expressed concern about a chilling effect across other institutions that study Black history

On Tuesday afternoon, President Donald Trump signed a far-reaching executive order that Eliza Sweren-Becker, senior counsel for the Brennan Center for Justice’s voting rights and elections program, described as “an astonishing and unprecedented voter suppression” effort. It would upend how Americans register to vote, how they cast their ballots, and how their votes are counted.