press freedom

Why the decline of foreign reporting makes for worse foreign policy.

Citizens hungry for information turned to the media during the pandemic, but governments around the world used the crisis to restrict journalists.

After four years of hostility to journalists and a free press, the United States must repair the damage Trump has done at home and abroad.

Journalist Patrícia Campos Mello has faced some of the worst disinformation campaigns in Brazil. Now she’s raising awareness to fight back.

The lawyer Prashant Bhushan’s arrest and detention for posting tweets critical of the Indian government is part of a wider global trend.

Imran Khan claims there’s nothing wrong. Abductions and terror say otherwise.

America’s founders missed an opportunity to abolish slavery, attacks on the press are increasing in democratic societies, and Trump’s maximum pressure campaign against Iran isn’t working.

As press freedom declines globally, the United States must reckon with its own diminishment.

The national security law is just the start of oppression.

Today’s emergency measures could become tomorrow’s trampling of free speech.

Amid a heavy-handed crackdown on protesters, the international community must help Iraqi journalists maintain the free flow of information.

The country’s government is rolling back wildlife protections and endangering media freedom and the rule of law.

If the extradition law is eventually forced through the Hong Kong legislature, censorship of books will become commonplace in what has long been a bastion of publishing freedom.

A raid on the national broadcaster is a sign of how the recently reelected conservative government intends to rule.

The doctored Nancy Pelosi video hardly marks the first time the social media giant has faced backlash. Consider Germany in 2015.

Adam Michnik was a hero of the anti-communist struggle. Now his renowned newspaper, Gazeta Wyborcza, is under attack from a ruling party that refuses to tolerate dissent.

Turkmenistan is so repressive it is even worse than in Soviet times, says editor Ruslan Myatiev.

The latest World Press Freedom Index indicates the United States and other large democracies are reaching a tipping point.