Peter W. Klein

Opinion: Authoritarian regimes need their court jesters There’s a long history of political satire in authoritarian regimes. In Communist Hungary, it came courtesy of Géza Hofi

I grew up listening to my dad playing recordings of Hungary's greatest comedian, Géza Hofi. I got to thinking recently about Hofi's dangerous antics during the height of the Cold War, and wrote this piece about the risks to American comedy today.
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Chris Cannon put it well cannonwriter.substack.com/p/america-ha...

@globalreportingcentre.org continues reporting on how sports, politics and human rights are interconnected. Check out this bonus episode that just posted!

Just Peace Movie Night: Bribe Inc. Join us for Just Peace Movie Night to watch Bribe, Inc. organised by III Europe, YAC and The Hague Humanity Hub.

The GRC's founder, board chair, and academic director, @peterwklein.bsky.social, will be screening his new film, Bribe, Inc., in The Hague during the NATO Security Summit on June 21st. Don't miss your chance to see his latest documentary! bit.ly/3FwZUO5

Bribe Inc. documentary showing this Saturday, 1 PM, at Rialto Elmwood in Berkeley. On #WorldPressFreedomDay, we're showcasing this bold investigation about corruption, followed by Q&A w/ @erichavian.bsky.social of @whistleblower.law.

Incredibly, SCOTUS determined in Ziglar v. Abbasi that rounding up Muslim, S. Asian, and Arab non-citizens under the pretext of immigration violations was constitutional. So none of this should surprise anyone.

Opinion | My Father’s Red Scare (Published 2007) My father was never a spy, never a member of the Communist Party. Nonetheless, the F.B.I. kept a file on him from the day he arrived in the United States.

I keep hearing that the detentions like those of Columbia student Mahmoud Khalil and Tufts student Rümeysa Öztürk are unprecedented. As I wrote in @nytimes, these kinds of investigations and detentions were common after 9/11, as well as previously in US history. www.nytimes.com/2007/01/04/o...

Fact-checking the third Republican primary debate As five Republican candidates traded barbs onstage, NBC News fact-checked what they said in real time.

Worth circling back to my @nbcnews.com fact-check on Vivek Ramaswamy's spurious claim during primary debate that Canada is a major source of fentanyl. We debunked it then, but Trump has continued to propagate fiction that the deadly drug comes across northern border. www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...

How will a new Trump administration prosecute corruption? Experts weigh in on whether a second Trump administration will maintain robust anti-corruption efforts or politicize enforcement to serve strategic interests.

How will a new Trump administration prosecute corruption?
Experts weigh in on whether a second Trump administration will maintain robust anti-corruption efforts or politicize enforcement to serve strategic interests. www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...