MAGAZINE
Does God love democracy?
15 Dec 2004
More intimately than at any time since the Middle Ages, and from the USA to China, the world's religions are back in the thick of politics. To what effect and with what consequences?
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Has President Trump launched the age of the American dissident?
A new era of authoritarianism has dawned in the “land of liberty”. What can US political activists learn from those who defied Soviet repression?
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Land of the Free?: Trump’s war on speech at home and abroad
Volume 54.02 Summer 2025
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Contents – Land of the Free? Trump’s war on speech at home and abroad
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Attacked on all fronts in the West Bank
Diala Ayesh, a Palestinian human rights lawyer, was imprisoned for a year in an Israeli jail for unknown reasons. Index speaks to her about the dangers she faces from both Israeli and Palestinian authorities
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