• Democracy • Global

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    Ari Honarvar

    Yes Magazine

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    Published On: 04/24/2025

  • Global • Safety

    Have things reached the point where it’s time to leave the U.S.?

    David Kirp

    San Francisco Chronicle

    No one, except perhaps the authors of Project 2025, could have predicted that the so-called guardrails of democracy were made of papier-mâché, that this country could so quickly be teetering on the precipice of autocracy.

    Published On: 04/12/2025

  • Europe • Exile • Global • Safety

    Americans in Race for European Residency

    Alice Kantor

    Bloomberg

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    Published On: 03/19/2025

  • Global

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    Sam Bright

    desmog.com

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  • Canada • Global

    Civil Society Groups Call for Immediate Suspension of Safe Third Country Agreement with United States of America

    Rainbow Railroad

    rainbowrailroad

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    Published On: 03/04/2025

  • Democracy • Global

    Russian Interference: Coming Soon to an Election Near You

    Oana Popescu-Zamfir

    carnegieendowment

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    Published On: 02/13/2025

  • Democracy • Global

    America Is Moving Into Hell,’ Says Nobel Laureate Who Stood Up To A Dictator

    JOHN HARWOOD

    Zeteo

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    Published On: 01/22/2025

  • Global

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    Timothy W. Ryback

    The Atlantic

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  • Global • Technology

    New report on Russian media in exile: RSF calls for increased support amid unprecedented digital repression

    Reporters Without Borders

    rsf.org

    Independent Russian media in exile are a vital line of defence against the Kremlin’s massive digital censorship project, which has an estimated budget of nearly 630 million euros, according to the latest report by The Fix and the JX Fund. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) urges European states, international donors, and tech giants to step up their support for these media outlets as they face unprecedented repression and major logistical, financial, and security challenges.

    Published On: 11/20/2024

  • Global • Technology

    The New Propaganda War

    Anne Applebaum

    The Atlantic

    If people are naturally drawn to the image of human rights, to the language of democracy, to the dream of freedom, then those concepts have to be poisoned.

    Published On: 05/06/2024

  • Global • Human Rights • Journalism • Press Freedom • Violence

    Israel-Gaza war: list of journalists killed in the line of duty in Palestine, Israel and Lebanon

    Reporters Without Borders

    Reporters Without Boarders

    Journalists killed in connection with their work in Gaza, Lebanon and Israel.

    Published On: 11/22/2023

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