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DARE: A Decade of Implications at Stake, Supreme Court Hears Census Citizenship Question
Supreme Court is set to hear arguments today on whether the Trump Administration can include a question about citizenship in the 2020 census, which... More
Myanmar Supreme Court’s Decision to Uphold Convictions of Reuters Journalists Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo a Devastating Blow
"With this devastating and wrongful decision, the Myanmar Supreme Court has disappointed not only Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo and their families, but all those who maintained hope… More
DARE: Big Tech Faces Specter of Limiting Speech Online
Global debate about regulation of social media platforms raises questions for United States and its commitment to free speech. Criminal charges against... More
DARE: Mueller Report Suggests the ‘Fake News’ Came from Trump, Not the News Media
Mueller report assesses where White House misled, lied to, or falsely discredited journalists and their reporting. American Media Inc. sells National... More
Works of Justice: An Interview with Writing for Justice Fellow Thomas Bartlett Whitaker
"Within my writings, I am able to take a moral stand against a site and an ideology that I feel to be both overwhelming and inherently broken." More
DARE: The U.S. Is Now a ‘Noticeably Problematic’ Place to Be a Journalist, Report Shows
Reporters Without Borders releases its World Press Freedom Index today, noting that the United States has become a 'particularly problematic' place to be... More
“We Think in Stories”: A PEN Ten Interview with Namwali Serpell
"We think in stories. It’s so constitutive that 'need' is an understatement. It’s more like blood than water." More
Open Secrets at the 15th Annual World Voices Festival
This year’s World Voices Festival explores the profoundly complex and challenging issues involved in this dissolution of the public and the private. More
DARE: CEO Jack Dorsey Suggests Big Change for Twitter, and Users Revolt
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey says the social media platform is looking to shift from following individuals to following topics as part of efforts to counter... More
Works of Justice: An Interview with Writing for Justice Fellow Justin Rovillos Monson
"Writing expanded my world at a time when everything felt so small and suffocating. As embarrassingly cliché as it is to say, writing gave me a breadth of hope." More