A closing panel of the 2018 PEN World Voices Festival addresses the question: could (or has) an authoritarian regime come to power in the United States?
A discussion of why the recent image of a bundled mobile offering in Portugal is not a model for what will happen in the U.S. without #NetNeutrality.
Thursday December 7 saw nationwide rallies to protest Federal Communications Commission director Ajit Pai's promise to end Net Neutrality at the FCC's monthly meeting on December 14. Most of the…
In the past two weeks, I've spoken at two events about my novel Gringolandia and my translation of the picture book Three Balls of Wool (Can Change the World) --…
Release day for the Amnesty International co-sponsored Three Balls of Wool (Can Change the World), a picture book of a refugee family in their new home.
An overview of common stories that dictatorships and despotic regimes tell to justify their power and policies.
The dangers of politics as a spectator sport and taking pleasure in watching the disarray of the greedy and powerful.
Discussing a book I translated from Portuguese, The Queen of the Frogs, which since last November has become a timely story of democracy's erosion.
Advice from filmmakers, writers, and critics on resisting repression, building bridges with others, and moral and creative survival.
How long did it take countries in the 20th century to get their democracy back after they'd lost it? On average, 21 years.