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The PEN Ten with Natalie Graham
I find myself thinking the responsibility is to reveal a thing the most beautiful way. Beauty is a trap, but I can't think of what else the writer is… More
DARE: A woman approached The Post with dramatic—and false—tale about Roy Moore. She appears to be part of undercover sting operation.
Mainstream media detractors stoop to a new level as shadowy group is exposed for a failed effort to convince the Washington Post to believe false... More
Scaramucci’s Threat to Sue Tufts Student and Newspaper A Baseless Attempt to Silence Criticism
Scaramucci’s threat to sue a Tufts student and the school newspaper is a baseless attempt to silence criticism fully protected by the First Amendment. More
Myanmar’s Slow Strangulation of Online Speech
While Saung Kha was one of the first poets arrested and imprisoned under Article 66(d) of Myanmar’s Telecommunications Law, he would not be the last. More
Turkish Courts Set to Begin Hearings of Purged Dissidents in Academia
The continued targeting of academics in Turkey sends a chilling signal on freedom of thought and expression in institutions of higher education. More
DARE: How a Radio Shack Robbery Could Spur a New Era in Digital Privacy
Supreme Court set to consider government collection of cellphone data in case that could shape privacy law for the digital era. More
Conflict Deepens Between the Russian Ministry of Culture and Leading Cultural Figures
Cultural figures like Raikin resist, and while we do not know who will win in this fight, it is likely that history will remember the names of Serebrennikov and… More
Foreign Lands: A Slice of Seg
The prisoner in Cell 32 is intermittently tapping on his window with something hard enough that the sound fills the pod. He yells at random intervals, opening the play… More
Vader’s Redemption
You know what I liked about that movie? More than the first one? It wasn’t the big reveal—but it was—big! It was the fact that Luke wasn’t mad that… More
The Moronic Inferno: Snoring Toward Bethlehem
William is once more snoring and Brit is despondent from lack of sleep. He tentatively taps on the bunk above him, but there is no change or response. ... More
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