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DARE: Daily Alert on Rights and Expression
Famous writers move to resist Trump, Apple pulls New York Times app at the request of Chinese censors, and more. More
DARE: Daily Alert on Rights and Expression
Famous writers move to resist Trump, Apple pulls New York Times app at the request of Chinese censors, and more. More
January Featured Cases: Writers Under Threat in Turkey
In a small initial victory for free expression, prominent writer and journalist Asli Erdoğan and distinguished translator Necmiye Alpay were granted a provisional release from detention after spending more… More
Hachette Book Group Membership
“MEMBERS OF PEN pledge themselves to do their utmost to dispel race, class, and national hatreds and to champion the ideal of one humanity living in peace in the… More
DARE: Daily Alert on Rights and Expression
NAACP chief is arrested in an act of civil disobedience, peacefully occupying Senator Jeff Sessions Alabama office to protest his Attorney General nomination. Not wanting their spectacles recorded for… More
DARE: Daily Alert on Rights and Expression
NAACP chief is arrested in an act of civil disobedience, peacefully occupying Senator Jeff Sessions Alabama office to protest his Attorney General nomination. Not wanting their spectacles recorded for… More
Public Works
It was an election year. The switchboards flickered with stars in their / universe of calls. Of all places, a public park. The workers had begun / to dig,… More
The PEN Ten with Troy Wiggins
"We all have a preoccupation with mortality because time is such a limited currency for us. Alongside that, I have to reckon with the reality that as a Black… More
DARE: Daily Alert on Rights and Expression
Pundits and editors debate when to call a lie a lie. China responds to Trump tweet on North Korea, vowing not to pay attention to "features of a foreign… More
DARE: Daily Alert on Rights and Expression
Pundits and editors debate when to call a lie a lie. China responds to Trump tweet on North Korea, vowing not to pay attention to "features of a foreign… More
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