Tag: repression
Googoosh, the ‘Voice of Iran,’ has gone quiet – and that’s...
Richard Nedjat-Haiem, University of California, Santa Barbara
Before Beyoncé, before Cher, before Madonna, there was Googoosh.
Autocracies in transition: In 2025, Cameroon and Tanzania rulers clung to...
Yonatan Morse, University of Connecticut
Autocratic leaders in Africa like their numbers to be in the high 90s, it...
‘He just vanished’ − missing activists highlight Tajikistan’s disturbing use of...
Steve Swerdlow, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
“He just vanished; left his apartment for a...
EXPLORING NATURE
Raccoons break into liquor stores, scale skyscrapers and pick locks –...
Kelly Lambert, University of Richmond
When a curious raccoon broke into an Ashland, Virginia, liquor store in December 2025,...
