When it comes to financing our $37 trillion national debt, a dose of financial repression could be just what the doctor ordered. The Trump administration wants lower interest rates to make paying down ...

The federal government, financial markets and most Americans are all in a state of denial about interest rates. Whenever someone goes on business TV, gets a mortgage or makes a long-term debt ...

Today on “Post Reports,” a look at what has happened to Iranians in the year since massive protests swept the country. We hear from family members impacted by the government’s harsh crackdown and how ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado, winner of this year's Nobel Peace Prize, was praised as a "champion of peace." ...

Democratic governments have spent the past decade debating how authoritarianism erodes freedom within the borders of a particular country. Far less attention has been paid to how authoritarianism now ...

The rise of transnational repression—ranging from digital threats, family intimidation, and spyware to abductions, assassinations, illegal deportations, and Interpol abuse—has demonstrated that ...

FOR activists, journalists, and dissidents fleeing their home countries, safety is increasingly hard to find. They are targeted for their work even when on foreign soil. This insidious reach of ...

Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi was assassinated and dismembered in the Saudi Arabian Consulate in Istanbul five years ago this month. That was an explosive example of “transnational ...

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) on Monday called on German authorities to protect the Egyptian journalist Basma Mostafa against alleged surveillance, intimidation and harassment in Germany by the ...