From Informed Responsibility To Dangerous Denial: COVID Responses in Eurasia
There have been striking differences in how certain countries in Eurasia have responded to COVID-19 with regard to freedom of expression, access to information, and privacy rights. More
We Are for Freedom: Amid Violence Crackdown, Writers Rally in Defense of Moscow Protesters
"We are against lies, we are for freedom, we are for honesty, we are for observance of the law." More
PEN America Joins Belarusian PEN Center in Protest of Conviction of Poet Uladzimir Niakliaeu
PEN America stands in solidarity with our colleagues in Belarus as they face yet another encroachment on their free expression rights. More
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Esper said he didn't know where he was going when he became Trump's prop at the church. But he knew who he was going with. Glad he's speaking out, but next time he's asked to blindly follow the President, a quasi-apology after-the-fact won't cut it. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/trump-s-church-photo-op-took-defense-secretary-esper-gen-n1222391
Our CEO @SuzanneNossel writes in her capacity as an NYC public school parent, urging the Dep't of Education to make detailed plans to reopen schools in September, and arguing that it can be done.
"In the face of an Aggressive Menace dripping with contempt for your humanity and wishing, when it cannot exploit you, to punish you, to terrorize and torment you, what use is hope?" writes @TochiTrueStory about American unrest: https://bit.ly/2XogPtj