This Ramadan, as I sit down with a hot bowl of lentil soup and freshly made Uyghur noodles to break my day-long fast, I try very hard not to think about my father, thousands of miles away, in a prison ...

When it comes to financing our $37 trillion national debt, a dose of financial repression could be just what the doctor ordered. The Trump administration wants lower interest rates to make paying down ...

Between 2014 and 2024, Freedom House recorded a total of 1,219 direct, physical incidents of transnational repression committed by 48 governments reaching across the borders of 103 countries. 1 In ...

Repression is when you block out difficult emotions, memories, and thoughts unconsciously. Your repressed memories may lead to anxiety, depression, and physical symptoms like headaches and chronic ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Gabrielle Principe, College of Charleston (THE CONVERSATION) In 1990, George Franklin ...

Democratic governments have spent the past decade debating how authoritarianism erodes freedom within the borders of a particular country. Far less attention has been paid to how authoritarianism now ...

Chinese official discourse has increasingly used “social governance”  to describe policies in the Uyghur region. This neutral administrative language is reshaping people's perception of repression, ...

A wave of repression by President Nicolás Maduro’s administration in Venezuela has paralyzed opposition candidates in the lead-up to the 2024 presidential elections. On January 26, Venezuela’s Supreme ...

Nicaragua’s Government is financing the repression of its opponents through illegal misuse of public funds and targeting exiles through a transnational surveillance and intelligence network, the UN ...