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REPRESSION

EDITORIALS
Oct 18, 2018
China must not be free to suppress its Muslim minority
Beijing is pursuing an extraordinary and outrageous policy in its far western province of Xinjiang.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 11, 2018
When China rules the world
Chinese journalists and diplomats increasingly act as enforcers of rampant displays of Chinese nationalism abroad.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 15, 2018
Why Putin is softening on internet memes
The Kremlin is having second thoughts about jailing people for silly social media posts it calls 'extremist.' It wants to look scary, not ridiculous.
COMMENTARY / World
May 21, 2016
Governments paranoid over free media
Many of the world's leaders are developing a form of paranoia about legitimate journalism.
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 16, 2016
Many nations waging a silent war on NGOs
Using NGOs as a whipping boy to limit the operating space of civil society is a concern in as many as 50 countries around the world.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 18, 2015
Russia's totalitarianism 2.0
The Putin regime's approach can best be described as 'hybrid totalitarianism.'
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 9, 2014
Europe's prospects looked better in the 1930s
Unless policies change, economic stagnation in the eurozone is likely to persist, posing in some ways a bigger challenge to recovery than the Great Depression did in the 1930s.
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 20, 2013
The Chinese people have an alternative dream
Last month's controversy at China's Southern Weekly appeared to be about censorship. At a deeper level, it was about alternative national dreams.

Longform

Historically, kabuki was considered the entertainment of the merchant and peasant classes, a far cry from how it is regarded today.
For Japan's oldest kabuki theater, the show must go on