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Year after year, repressive regimes keep curtailing freedom. 2020 brought a new low.
Anne Bagamery
21 hr agoComment 1Share
Join us for happy hour this Thursday!
Persuasion Staff
Mar 3CommentShare
Here are four lesser-known dissidents around the world who deserve your attention. How do they find the courage?
Andrew Stroehlein
Mar 1Comment 4Share
The Weaponization of NostalgiaTrump's presidency, Brexit, and the mishandling of a global pandemic have made Douglas Alexander deeply concerned about the "powerful weaponization of …
Yascha Mounk
Feb 27Comment 5Share
The beguiling façade of Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez hides an authoritarian bent
Maite Rico
Feb 26Comment 1Share
La fachada terciopelada del Presidente del Gobierno de España, Pedro Sánchez, encubre su carácter autoritario
Maite Rico
Feb 26CommentShare
Activists must stop equating what they dislike to physical brutality. An opinion is never a punch in the face.
Nathaniel Rachman
Feb 24Comment 33Share
Join us for Happy Hour on Thursday at 8pm Eastern!
Persuasion Staff
Feb 23Comment 1Share
Great thinkers of the past are today dismissed for bigotry. But their lesson was to cherish wisdom, not to elevate “whiteness.”
Ian Buruma
Feb 22Comment 13Share
How To Understand Your EnemyWe like to think the right argument could persuade our friend or uncle of our point of view. But what if our personality helps to determine how we see …
Yascha Mounk
Feb 20Comment 3Share
There are far better ways to help the needy
Zaid Jilani
Feb 19Comment 10Share
The right says political intolerance isn't new. Now that it afflicts the left too, we need unity among all who value liberalism.
Robert Tracinski
Feb 17Comment 26Share
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