OF THE many unpleasant legacies left by the economic crisis the mountain of sovereign debt may prove hardest to erode. Across the rich world, debt levels approaching 90% of GDP are now common.

It has been five years since the assassination of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, and not much has changed. Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who is believed to have ordered his brutal killing ...

Chinese repression in the last quarter-century has gone global. In a new report from the Uyghur Human Rights Project and the Oxus Society for Central Asian Affairs — “No Space Left to Run: China’s ...

It may have been China’s biggest unforced error in Hong Kong. Earlier this year, Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam, who is close to the government in Beijing ...

Authoritarian governments have long sought to target dissidents abroad. But the digital age may have given them stronger motives, and better tools, for transnational repression. By Amanda Taub ...

Rally "for a free Russia without repression and despotism" Moscow, June 10 2018. Credit: Don Simon via Wikimedia Commons. CC0. From Bull Connor’s dogs and fire hoses attacking U.S. civil rights ...

Governments in more than two dozen countries are using threats, attacks and legal action to retaliate against journalists and critics who fled overseas, a new report has found. At a time when ...

UNITED NATIONS — North Korea is increasing its repression of human rights and people are becoming more desperate and reportedly starving in parts of the country as the economic situation worsens, the ...

On a December night last year in Caracas, opposition activist Jesús Armas stepped out of a café and walked toward his car. Before he could reach it, at least five hooded men dressed in black ...