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Threats Against Commencement Speakers Raise Alarm for Deterioration of Discourse on U.S. University Campuses
NEW YORK—Death threats against Princeton professor Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor who criticized Trump in a speech to graduates and demands that activist Linda Sarsour be disinvited as a commencement speaker at… More
BookExpo to Honor PEN America with Industry Ambassador Award for Unrelenting Advocacy on Behalf of Writers, Readers, and Publishers
NEW YORK—BookExpo America announced today that it will honor PEN America with the seventh annual Industry Ambassador Award, to be presented on June 1, 2017, at the book industry's annual trade… More
DARE: Daily Alert on Rights and Expression
Errant presidential tweets, hate speech, and more stories on free expression from around the world. More
Two Poems by Mia Kang
Rome made a deal / with the surrounding areas. / Let’s be friends, said Rome. / What is friends, said the world. // An engineering feat, said the city.… More
June Featured Case: Mehdi and Hossein Rajabian
Iranian filmmakers Mehdi and Hossein Rajabian were arrested in October 2013 in connection with an underground music-sharing site they cofounded. During a three-minute trial, they were fined $6000 and… More
Egypt Uses Threat of ‘Terrorism’ to Silence Dissent Online
Egypt Uses Threat of ‘Terrorism’ to Silence Dissent Online, Blocks 21 News Sites More
Russia’s Generation Z and the Digital Media Effect
Young Generation Z has grown up in a time when information about anything in the world is available online, and having experienced that freedom, they are not letting go. More
DARE: Daily Alert on Rights and Expression
Sean Spicer rails against fake news reports but fails to cite examples, threats to journalists and journalism in the U.S. and around the world, and more. More
The PEN Ten with Basma Abdel Aziz
I don’t accept the presence of censorship. I prefer to leave the final judgement to people when talking about writing. More
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