When you don't like the rules—or rulers—where you live, and trying to change things isn't worth the time, effort, or danger, one good response is to get the hell out. Find someplace that's more to ...

In an aphorism sometimes attributed to Leo Tolstoy, sometimes to John Gardner, all literature relies on one of two plots: a person goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town. Let me offer my own ...

And such ideas, old as they may be, are still distinctly with us. European imperial actors from Christopher Columbus on claimed the right to freedom of movement on this planet. Today, the flyer you ...

History sometimes fits into a single scene, a single frame. In that frame, the entire contradiction, the entire hypocrisy of an era, is crystallized. The person who recently entered the heavy doors of ...

In the tense and transformative days after Mahsa Amini's death in police custody in September 2022 for allegedly wearing a head scarf improperly, a new anthem surged from Iran's streets: "Women, Life, ...

From data leaks and criminal hacks to smear campaigns, BIRN’s digital rights monitoring team documented widespread privacy violations and assaults on freedom of speech across Southeast Europe in July.