The PEN Pod: Incarceration Amid COVID-19 with Beth Shelburne
“The bottom line is we have too many people in our jails and prisons for far too long, and that makes all of these other issues so much worse.” More
DARE: Trump Consultant Is Trolling Democrats With Biden Site That Isn’t Biden’s
Fake website for Biden campaign, operated by Trump consultant, attracts more views than real Biden campaign website. (See PEN America's report on... More
DARE: Trump Jokes to Putin They Should ‘Get Rid’ of Journalists
At a meeting in Osaka, President Trump and Russia's Vladimir Putin make light of election meddling and '[getting] rid' of journalists. FBI encourages U.S... More
DARE: UN Investigator Calls on Saudi Arabia to Make Khashoggi Murder Trials Public
Special rapporteur leading UN investigation of journalist Jamal Khashoggi's killing finds that Saudi Arabia has not met its international human rights... More
DARE: Yesterday, they walked out of class. Now, they’re forced to stay after school
Scattered reports of students being punished by school administrators for participating in nationwide 17-minute walkout protesting gun violence. More
DARE: Publisher: Trump effort to stop book ‘flagrantly unconstitutional’
MacMillan publishing CEO John Sargent fires back at Trump, echoing PEN America's conclusion that the White House's cease and desist letter targeting Michael Wolff's Fire and Fury was "flagrantly… More
DARE: Trump Wants Washington Post Reporter Fired Over Misleading Tweet
President Trump calls for Washington Post reporter to be fired over a misleading tweet about the size of the crowd at a rally in Pensacola More
DARE: Trump suggests Senate Intelligence Committee investigate media companies
President Trump steps up attacks on the media, tweeting out call for Senate Intelligence Committee to investigate "Fake News Networks," presumably a reference to major news networks. His comments… More
DARE: Daily Alert on Rights and Expression
Trump continues to decry removal of Confederate statues as James Murdoch condemns his comments on the violence in Charlottesville; ABC's 'pink slime' defamation suit settled last week; Hong Kong's… More
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NEW: We welcome the launch of PEN Belarus’s report, “Monitoring of Violations of Cultural and Human Rights Against Cultural Workers,” which documents the persecution of writers, artists, poets & other cultural figures between January & September 2021. https://bit.ly/3G0YBm0
