Evan Gershkovich’s pretrial detention extended through late March, one year after his arrest
The Wall Street Journal condemned the court’s decision, which was made in a closed hearing on Friday
The Wall Street Journal condemned the court’s decision, which was made in a closed hearing on Friday
The brutal assault on the famed author in Chautauqua is a potent reminder of the power of civics education
The first step in the genocide of a people is often a war against their ideas. For leaders who aim to hold their own people hostage, censorship of free expression is the quickest way to fake absolute power, dominance and control.
A Borough Park firebrand and New York City Council candidate pleaded guilty on Friday to charges of “inciting to riot” for whipping up a crowd that attacked a Hasidic journalist last fall during a protest against coronavirus restrictions that morphed into a pro-Trump rally. During a virtual hearing, the candidate, Heshy Tischler admitted that he…
Today, 38 Nobel Laureates published an open letter in The Guardian urging Turkey’s President Erdoğan to reverse course on the steady erosion of civil liberties seen under his administration since an attempted coup in 2016. The letters signatories include 2015 Nobel Laureate in Literature Svetlana Alexievich, 2012 Nobel Laureate in Physics Serge Haroche, 2004 Nobel…
When Thomasz Piatek’s publisher released his explosive book last month about Poland’s defense minister, the well-known investigative journalist was braced for a defamation suit. What he didn’t expect was a criminal complaint, lodged with the military bureau of Poland’s prosecutor-general’s office, charging him with “using force or threats against a public official” and “public insults…
Freedom House, a freedom of the press watchdog, downgraded Israel’s status from “free” to “partly free,” citing the Israel Hayom daily, which is seen as pro-government. “Israel declined due to the growing impact of Yisrael Hayom [sic], whose owner-subsidized business model endangered the stability of other media outlets, and the unchecked expansion of paid content…
The British have their treasured BBC. In the United States it’s NPR and PBS. In Germany it’s ARD. At various points, all these public media pillars have been accused of bias from one side or another of the political spectrum. But none has ever faced the prospect of actually being dismantled. That is the reality…
שמעון נויבערג דערקלערט דעם חילוק צווישן אַלט־ייִדיש און מיטל־ייִדיש און די ביכער, שרײַבערס, לייענערס און דרוקערײַען פֿון יענער תּקופֿה