Authoritarianism

In a chilling demonstration of the relentless grip of President Aleksandr Lukashenko's authoritarian regime, a man who chose to stay in Belarus to care for his imprisoned wife has now found himself behind bars. This poignant case, along with the detention of another journalist, underscores the ongoing repression in Belarus,...

As the Nobel Prize-winning author of a trilogy that laid bare the crumbling Soviet Union, Svetlana Alexievich has spent a lifetime chronicling the darkest corners of human experience. Her work, a sweeping oral history of the Soviet era's brutal suppression and ultimate collapse, has earned her international acclaim and a...

In a disturbing escalation of its crackdown on dissent, the government of Nicaragua has adopted a new tactic to intimidate and silence its critics: arresting them and then disappearing them from public view. The authorities have taken to detaining opponents without informing their families or the public about their whereabouts,...