Digital Authoritarianism
Lessons from Duterte's Philippines for the United States.
RSF World Press Freedom Index 2025
The global state of press freedom is now classified as...
To Resist the Trump Regime, Look to Iran
For more than four decades, Iranians have resisted through underground clubs, labor strikes, and other everyday acts of defiance.
The loss of editorial freedom at 60 Minutes is a sorry milestone
As with so many of the red alerts – lawsuits, threats, changes in long-held practices that protect the public’s right...
DOGE Is Building a Surveillance State
The creation of a huge government database of personal information about U.S. residents is dangerous and very likely against the...
Local news publishers share how they survived attacks on press freedom
In a country that routinely distrusts and villainizes local news, these attacks did not occur in a vacuum; if they...
The powerful are using lawsuit threats to silence media
Local officials and business moguls are also turning to lawsuits...
Disposable People: We Are Not Safe
The Trump administration is quietly creating offshore detention, disappearance, and exile—and Americans could soon be next.
You Are Inside the Collapse
The courts, the institutions, the protections—they’re not failing. They’re being dismantled.
Trump signs orders targeting two ex-officials who criticized him
U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed directives targeting two former government officials who criticized him during his first term, calling one of them a traitor and saying they should be investigated.
