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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. Last week Qatar sentenced the leader of that country’s tiny Baha’i community to ...

Under the leadership of Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, Egypt is engaged in an unprecedented crackdown on dissent and opposition, trampling over fundamental freedoms and rights, and entrenching the ...

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.

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 ...