The Pakistani state and its powerful military establishment have resorted to increasingly drastic measures to deter critics ...

When you don't like the rules—or rulers—where you live, and trying to change things isn't worth the time, effort, or danger, one good response is to get the hell out. Find someplace that's more to ...

The resistance units operating inside Iran are positioned to transform recurring uprisings into decisive change.

The new year presents the greatest opportunity for the expansion of freedom, and the demise of repressive and anti-American regimes, in the Caribbean that we have seen in decades. In an article in ...

Iran may be closer to a revolutionary moment than at any point since 1979—but it is not yet in a revolutionary transition. The mistake many observers make is to treat visible unrest as evidence of ...

Marco Rubio has long been a fierce critic of dictatorial leaders who have stifled speech in their countries and crushed opposition. As a senator, he spearheaded legislation and condemned “the ongoing ...

American democracy, it’s blindingly evident, is in crisis. Terms that once characterized faraway repressive regimes—oligarchy, elite, plutocracy—are now invoked to describe the current political ...

Past prisoner trades, like West Germany's ransom payments to East Germany, didn't improve the repressive state's human rights records, but just showed that democracies were prepared to pay ransoms.

The Iranian regime is weaker, its forces are divided, its violence is constrained, and the people, hardened by experience, ...

Artists included: 3Nós3, Eliás Adasme, Sonia Andrade, Martha Araújo, Lenora de Barros, Paulo Bruscky, Colectivo Acciones de Arte (CADA), Luis Camnitzer, Graciela ...

The horrors of war, totalitarian governments, and political dissent are the minefield of expression in this multimedia exhibit where more than a dozen artists tackle repressive regimes through imagery ...