In 1990, George Franklin was convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison based on the testimony of his 28-year-old daughter Eileen. She described seeing him rape her best friend and then smash ...

It has been five years since the assassination of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, and not much has changed. Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who is believed to have ordered his brutal killing ...

Rally "for a free Russia without repression and despotism" Moscow, June 10 2018. Credit: Don Simon via Wikimedia Commons. CC0. From Bull Connor’s dogs and fire hoses attacking U.S. civil rights ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. The rise of transnational repression—ranging from digital threats, family ...

Adam Chitwood is a former Managing Editor at Collider, where he covered film and television with a focus on interviews, features, and industry analysis. Not every film is made to stand the test of ...

For some people, sexy thoughts bring up excitement and anticipation around past sexual encounters or possible future experiences. Maybe you learned in childhood that sex was unpleasant or just for ...

On July 7, a U.S. grand jury indicted five men for crimes connected to a Chinese government plot aimed at silencing dissidents living in the United States. While three of the men were originally ...

Under the leadership of Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, Egypt is engaged in an unprecedented crackdown on dissent and opposition, trampling over fundamental freedoms and rights, and entrenching the ...

The abrupt cancellation of an independent Chinese film festival in New York reveals how Beijing and its proxies increasingly ...