The Commerce, Justice, and Science Appropriations Subcommittee voted to include a troubling provision in the report accompanying their FY26 Appropriations bill that directs the DOJ to re-establish the deeply flawed China Initiative (page 45 of the Committee report). The China

Defending Rights & Dissent has lost a champion. Woody Kaplan, who died at his home surrounded by loved ones, in Boston on August 3, 2023. Over the decades, Woody’s impact on DRAD has been  immeasurable. He loved our mission, and

Last month, the public learned that the FBI frequently fails to comply with its own rules regarding particularly sensitive investigations involving political and religious organizations, the media, and public officials. And not just minor rule-breaking, but SIGNIFICANT lapses averaging more