Historical roots and modern political use of antisemitism: how the term evolved from European "othering" to a tool for silencing Middle East dissent.

We wrap up 2025 with a review of books we loved, including several by local authors. Plus, we wade into the great audiobook debate.

Our rights to practice religion, talk about the president or curse the Hawkeyes are protected in America, writes Randy Evans.

Across the world, governments are tightening controls on speech, expanding surveillance and rolling back rights once thought to be secure. From ...

Between 2016 and 2024 there were 193 internet shutdowns imposed in 41 African countries. This form of social control is a ...

Strengthening and supporting these alliances would help preserve freedom of expression and the right to know. That means supporting cross-border networks of journalists, lawyers and human rights ...

Twenty-five years in, LeftWord shows how Left publishing in India has resisted erasure through dissent and solidarity in a ...

In the memoir, she speaks of a childhood marked by turbulence, of navigating architecture school, of drifting through odd ...

The only sensible course—and, happily, the one supported by reams of precedent—is to hold that the right to receive information does not apply here. A plaintiff may not invoke that right to challenge ...

Since the Second World War, successive German leaders have narrowly defined rehabilitation of their Nazi past in terms of the ...

Cinema and the Indian National Emergency' presents the Emergency as not only a political crisis but also a pivotal moment in the Indian state’s self-representation on screen ...