Salma al-Shehab, a Leeds University student, was charged with following and retweeting dissidents and activists
The musician and activist has escaped her homeland – but its repression still torments her. She talks about being beaten and jailed, nuclear threats and the dangerous power of women
The postwar Second Red Scare successfully smashed the American left. But in the midst of its devastation, a small number of old leftists refused to be shut up by the climate of fear. Without their heroism, the New Left could never have emerged.
Without facts, you can't have truth. Without truth, you can't have trust. Without trust, we have no shared reality, no democracy, and it becomes impossible to deal with the existential problems of our times.
The broad criminalization of Palestinian social media users occurs as Jewish Israeli extremists have been left free to incite violence on platforms in full view of authorities.
When Angela Davis was arrested after two months on the lam in 1971, Michael Myerson interviewed her and a codefendant in jail — turning him into a prosecution’s witness. He was now in a tough spot: Could he defy the prosecution without going to jail
Tennessee, Montana and Oklahoma are the latest states to pass anti-protest laws. Other bills in Iowa, Texas, Missouri, North Carolina and Ohio have progressed in the last two months.
The defeat of the regressive tax bill is an unprecedented triumph for the youth, the urban poor, and the unions of teachers and health care workers who promoted the uprising.
The culture wars turn bloody, Republicans split, and more developments in a time of turmoil
Media workers organize, Indian journalists under attack, GameStop, Fox News, and more hot flashes
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