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 ...

Conflating activism with criminality and terrorism is a growing problem across Europe and the U.K. and sets a dangerous precedent. The post The Criminalization of Protest Across Europe Puts Civil ...

Our government spent almost a decade chasing a professor they thought was a spy. The case raises questions about our ability to pursue real perpetrators of China’s crimes. Shujun Wang on 60 Minutes.

MinnPost’s reporting is always free, but it isn’t free to produce. We rely on donations from our readers to fund our independent journalism. The Conversation asked James Forest, a University of ...

It may or may not surprise you that the Rwandan government goes to extraordinary lengths to silence its critics. They use things like wide-spread surveillance and outright violence, including ...

A recent question posted to the Q&A site Zhihu may have been intended to elicit praise about China’s state of political affairs, but has instead become the latest telling example of the pessimistic ...

The mysteries only deepen the further you get in Marlen Haushofer’s fiction, which takes on domestic repression in its many guises. By Peter C. Baker Peter C. Baker is the author of the novel “Planes.