
DARE: Comey Memo: Trump Floated Idea Of Jailing Journalists To Make Them ‘Talk’
Publication of James Comey memos detailing conversations with Donald Trump show the president encouraged jailing journalists over leaks. More

Writers and Online Harassment: Evidence of a Chilling Effect
Writers have been sounding alarm bells about online harassment for years now, yet inconsistent responses from social media companies, an outdated yet prevailing attitude that online abuse is not… More

DARE: Cohen Drops Libel Suits Against BuzzFeed, Fusion GPS
Amid other legal travails, Trump lawyer Michael Cohen drops defamation suit against Buzzfeed over publication of Steele Dossier. Harper's editor accuses magazine of firing him over a dispute about… More

DARE: Fox News is Cool with the Sean Hannity-Michael Cohen Connection
Fox News offers full support to Sean Hannity, even though he never disclosed to audiences that he had received legal advice from Trump lawyer Michael Cohen while railing against… More

When Art Precedes Life: On the Persecution of Kirill Serebrennikov
It is the role of civil society now to counter the painful relationship between art and government in Russia, and to prevent it from turning art into suffering. More

DARE: Sean Hannity Unmasked as Trump Lawyer’s Mystery Client
Sean Hannity unmasked in court as a client of Michael Cohen, prompting criticisms for his failure to disclose a conflict of interest when covering the FBI raid of the… More

I Explain a Few Things
She was born in a shithole country that was fighting for the sanctity of a wretched block of ice / She said my own country is the most foreign… More

A Conversation on Writing, Disability, and Alexandre Jollien
My life and work continuously function to break apart the typical views of disability. This is partly not my fault nor first choice. I feel that just in order… More

DARE: Editorial: The President Is Not Above The Law
The New York Times writes in an unusual full-page editorial “The president is not above the law.” Reports point to a growing possibility that Trump may act to cripple… More

The PEN Ten with Behrouz Boochani
I have been living my whole life under a system that wants to define my identity in a certain way and to dictate “who I am.” More