Even with human rights safeguards in place, the new convention risks giving authoritarian regimes new tools to target their critics.
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Almost a year after President Trump authorized preemptive law enforcement measures based on political or ideological beliefs, a wave of terrorism prosecutions against left-wing protesters has begun.
Courage is widely considered a fundamental human virtue. A professor of psychology and a university president break down the components of courageous action.
It’s difficult to measure what is lost when an opinion is never voiced and impossible to catalogue the arguments that never form because a speaker calculates the risk and decides silence is safer.
Renee Good’s death was the consequence, writes a First Amendment scholar, of a kind of politics in which the state survives by making dissenters illegitimate as citizens.
President Donald Trump and his supporters cast their domestic opponents as disloyal, traitorous or worse, rather than seeing dissent as part of democracy.
Once a democracy starts to erode, it can be difficult to reverse the trend. What does it take for democracies to bounce back from periods of autocratic rule?
Political violence, made easier to carry out by the proliferation of guns, harms democracy by shifting the field of political disagreement from debate to aggression.
The Trump administration isn’t resorting to official censorship. Instead, it’s using less blatant – and more effective – ways to suppress dissent.
Americans across all generations still value free speech. But for younger Americans, especially, that support is less strong and seems increasingly conditional.
Attacks on the judiciary, the press and universities are all part of a concerted attempt to stifle dissent in America.
The next time you hear about a Supreme Court concurrence or dissent, pay attention. You may get a window to where the law is headed in the future.
In a year when the Supreme Court deals with many high-profile cases, a professor who teaches law to undergraduates describes how to read the court’s opinions.
Many faiths face conflicts over dissent and institutional control. In Latter-day Saints history, the episode around the ‘September Six’ is particularly memorable.
The app best known for kids sharing video clips of themselves singing and dancing has become a powerful tool for activists speaking out against repression in Iran.
Racialized and marginalized populations whose protest movements are already subject to ongoing forms of monitoring, infiltration and pre-emptive police action are at risk from the convoy crisis.
America’s public sphere is broken because propaganda has replaced political communication. How did we all become propagandists?
To be politically successful, coalitions need to be unified. But that pressure to unify can spell trouble for groups – as today’s GOP demonstrates.
Banning the Chinese-owned social media platforms raises free speech concerns and could worsen the US-China trade war.
Today’s autocrats rarely use brute force to wrest control. A human rights and international law scholar details the modern authoritarian’s latest methods to grab and hold power.
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