Although Hannah Arendt’s 1951 classic “The Origins of Totalitarianism” is primarily about Nazi Germany and Stalinist Russia, but her descriptions often capture aspects of our present moment more clearly than… Read more »
China’s authoritarian surveillance state crushed Covid-19 when it first appeared in Wuhan in early 2020 and trumpeted that success to the world. Now, more than two years later, the Omicron variant… Read more »
As the illiberal use of technologies threatens human rights worldwide, Migs Montreal hosted a speaker series with American and Canadian practitioners, researchers, and members of the private sector and civil… Read more »
The authoritarian challenge to democracy and human rights is arguably the defining geopolitical story of our time. But rather than oppose this trend, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) seems to… Read more »
Russia’s cyber-activities focus on sowing political and economic turmoil in the West, undercutting Westerners’ faith in democratic government, and weakening the influence of Western countries in Russia’s neighborhood, notes Dmitri… Read more »
Three decades ago, after the Berlin Wall fell and communism collapsed in the Soviet Union, the question of which model was prevailing wouldn’t even have seemed relevant. Democracy’s rise seemed… Read more »
Central American countries are falling like dominoes into authoritarianism, warns José Miguel Vivanco, Americas director at Human Rights Watch: Nicaraguan president Daniel Ortega has intensified his crackdown on political… Read more »
U.S. Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken has condemned Russia’s efforts to veto Europe’s largest human rights conference. The OSCE Human Dimension Implementation Meeting (HDIM) requires consensus to take place,… Read more »
By controlling a huge volume of data, Beijing is conducting a grand experiment in 21st century authoritarian governance, FT analysts James Kynge and Sun Yu write in the FT Big-Read… Read more »
Does a new book’s insistence on a return to bedrock democratic principles “offer a road back from populist authoritarianism”? Optimism is about a constellation of probabilities; hope entails active effort,… Read more »