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My Grandfather Lived Under Dictatorship but Found a Way to Feel Free

My grandfather was born and spent his young adult life under Portugal’s Estado Novo dictatorship, which ended in 1974.He saw firsthand how financial insecurity could be used as a weapon — loans denied, costs inflated, and livelihoods threatened based on arbitrary labels of unreliability, like involvement in union organizing.For him,…

How Donald Trump could change free speech as we know it

Donald Trump is threatening publishers again.A New York Times editor who’s out with a new book says we need to take him seriously.A landmark free speech case could be at risk.Donald Trump, who is used to suing journalists and media companies about stories he doesn’t like, says he’s going to…