Metropolitan Digital

Google


.

Searching reporters’ homes, suing journalists and repressing citizen dissent are well-known steps toward autocracy

  • Written by Konstantin Zhukov, Assistant Professor of Economics, Indiana University; Institute for Humane Studies
Searching reporters’ homes, suing journalists and repressing citizen dissent are well-known steps toward autocracyNeither of these men -- US President Donald Trump, left, and Russian President Vladimir Putin -- likes being held accountable by the press.Contributor/Getty Images

The FBI search of a Washington Post reporter’s home on Jan. 14, 2026, was a rare and intimidating move by an administration focused on repressing criticismand dissent.

In its story...

Read more: Searching reporters’ homes, suing journalists and repressing citizen dissent are well-known steps...

More Articles ...

  1. Climate engineering would alter the oceans, reshaping marine life – our new study examines each method’s risks
  2. Reddit and TikTok - with the help of AI - are reshaping how researchers understand substance use
  3. Broncos say their new stadium will be ‘privately financed,’ but ‘private’ often still means hundreds of millions in public resources
  4. For some Jewish women, ‘passing’ as Christian during the Holocaust could mean survival – but left scars all the same
  5. There’s an intensifying kind of threat to academic freedom – watchful students serving as informants
  6. Building ‘beloved community’: Remembering the friendship between Martin Luther King Jr. and Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh
  7. US military has a long history in Greenland, from mining during WWII to a nuclear-powered Army base built into the ice
  8. Could ChatGPT convince you to buy something? Threat of manipulation looms as AI companies gear up to sell ads
  9. From a new flagship space telescope to lunar exploration, global cooperation – and competition – will make 2026 an exciting year for space
  10. The ‘drug threat’ that justified the US ouster of Maduro won’t be fixed by his arrest