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France: Trump’s Staggering Offensive against Science

Lalatendu Das - March 19, 2025. Published in Le Monde

Faced with the crusade led by the U.S. president, Europe must take the lead ... for welcoming 'dissident' American scientists.

Greece: Freedom’s Two Faces

Deepti Bista - August 23, 2024. Published in eKathimerini

U.A.E.: Some of America’s Best Writers Are Locked in Its Brutal Prisons

Lalatendu Das - January 5, 2023. Published in The National

One of the best known prison literary initiatives comes from one of the most brutal prisons in America.

Ukraine : ‘Make America Great Again’: What Can the World Expect from Biden’s Presidency?

Robin Koerner - February 1, 2021. Published in Evropeiska Pravda

For a brief moment in history, the shining city on the hill has disappeared under a dark cloud, but I know that this city is still there, and it still stands.

Germany: The Forgotten Lessons of D-Day

Rejeanne Lacroix - June 5, 2019. Published in Deutsche Welle

Ireland: Freedom and Liberal Democracy Must Return to States

Rejeanne Lacroix - June 22, 2018. Published in The Irish Times

U.K.: 50 Years after the Slaying of Martin Luther King Jr., the Spirit of Protest and Resistance in America Is Alive and Well

Lalatendu Das - April 4, 2018. Published in Independent

Egypt: New York… Sex and the City

Robin Koerner - September 14, 2016. Published in Egypt Independent

Japan: Don’t Allow a Pullback on ‘Freedom’: The US Presidential Election and the World

Robin Koerner - August 30, 2016. Published in Chunichi Shimbun

If the U.S. turns its back on the world and builds a wall around itself, the international community, losing its unifying force, will go into a tailspin.

Ireland: Donald Trump’s Wall Is a Medieval Concept Not Worth Revisiting

Rejeanne Lacroix - July 25, 2016. Published in The Irish Times

Germany: Orlando Attack Puts America to the Test

Rejeanne Lacroix - June 14, 2016. Published in Deutsche Welle

Russia: Where Does Freedom Come From?

Robin Koerner - July 12, 2015. Published in Vedomosti

The political lesson of the landmark ruling is obvious: Civil freedoms are fought for not in Washington, but in thousands of cities across the nation.

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