Soft Power Chinese cinema’s push to produce the ideal Uyghur citizen In presenting images of Xinjiang and its people, the state has sought to promote a rigid nationalist ideology essay Vanessa Frangville
Traditional Values Russian investigators single out gay fathers in latest crackdown on LGBTQ rights Gay men who have fathered children with surrogate mothers are the latest targets in a child trafficking investigation dispatch Marina Bocharova
Information War How US veterans get sucked into QAnon Ahead of the U.S. election, a growing number of former military personnel are identifying with the sprawling conspiracy theory dispatch Caitlin Thompson
Leftist defense of persecution of Uyghurs triggers a fierce response from professors An open letter signed by 35 international academics called out a Monthly Review article that denied the persecution of China's Muslim minority dispatch Isobel Cockerell
Left in limbo: a Pakistani man has spent the last month trapped in a Mexican airport follow-up Gautama Mehta
Information War Pro-Kremlin media try to spin the suicide of a Russian journalist who blamed the government Irina Slavina’s self-immolation has been described as an act of “suicide as terrorism” by someone who “was burned by psychosis” dispatch Katia Patin and Katerina Fomina
Information War In Russia, most people don't believe Navalny was deliberately poisoned A new survey shows that even among those who think the poisoning was intentional, just one in three believe President Vladimir Putin or other Russian authorities are behind the plot dispatch Katia Patin
Information War Hungary orders up surveillance of journalists on foreign trips follow-up Mariam Kiparoidze
Traditional Values Poland's anti-gay crusade: “The most aggressive homophobic campaign I have seen in my life” As Poland’s right-wing Law and Justice party continues to leverage prejudice against LGBTQ communities, those on the frontline say the impact has been devastating dispatch Josephine Hüetlin
Information War Western influencers boost their careers by embracing Chinese nationalism Foreign online personalities are amassing millions of followers by feeding pro-Beijing narratives to China’s social media users dispatch Chen Mo
Information War Foreign influence laws wreaking havoc on journalists, professors in India and the US Critics say recent rulings in the two countries form part of a crackdown on civil society and the press dispatch Gautama Mehta
Information War Jail sentences for evading Covid-19 treatment in Turkmenistan follow-up Mariam Kiparoidze
Information War Welcome to TikTok's sanitized version of Xinjiang TikTok’s Xinjiang hashtag is cleansed of content about the Uyghur humanitarian crisis, according to a new report dispatch Isobel Cockerell
Information War Disney faces backlash after thanking Xinjiang authorities in ‘Mulan’ credits follow-up Mariam Kiparoidze
Traditional Values Anti-abortion activists launch publication to counter the Drudge Report’s “leftward tilt” follow-up Gautama Mehta