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Rewriting History
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Germany’s historical reckoning is a warning for the US
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Memory in the age of impunity
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Generation Gulag: The Kremlin is airbrushing away one of the darkest chapters of the Russian past
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Banned, burned and critically acclaimed: Global reactions to a Holocaust survival story
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Fury and grief in Spain on removing Franco’s murdered victims from an enormous mass grave
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Politics hijack history at the movies
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Authoritarian Tech
Modern technology was supposed to end dictatorship. But will it end democracy instead?
War on Science
Access to all human knowledge is at our fingertips. But we’re entering into a crisis of reason.
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Propaganda warfare is increasingly shaping narratives, policies and lives around the world.
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The Big Idea
China's repression of journalists: no more borders, no more constraints
China's determination to silence journalists is the culmination of an authoritarian project that models a new level of global repression combining high-tech surveillance with traditional mafia tactics of threats against family
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Why targeting ethnic minority journalists is central to China’s crackdown on the press
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China’s crackdown on Uyghurs reaches the Arctic
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China ordered a Uyghur journalist extradited to Xinjiang. His wife has taken to the Istanbul streets to stop it
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China’s Global Dragnet
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Immersive simulation attempts to pierce apathy over the Uyghur genocide
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Threatened, harassed, punished: The Uyghur translators defying China to tell Xinjiang’s story
The Big Idea
Ransomware: The New Disinformation
Ransomware increasingly shares the aims of disinformation campaigns: to spread popular doubt in governments and institutions, to undermine expertise, and to foster political and social instability.
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