"Iran has always been brutal toward its critics but the current wave of repression in Tehran has a scent of panic," writes ...

By bnl editorial staff Venezuela is facing a deepening crisis of state-led repression and criminal infiltration, according to ...

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 ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. While the actions of the Islamic State and other malicious actors online pose ...

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 ...

Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi was assassinated and dismembered in the Saudi Arabian Consulate in Istanbul five years ago this month. That was an explosive example of “transnational ...

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 ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. “Financial repression” was common in the four decades after the second world war and is essential to ...

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.