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Labor unions say the Trump administration is using "arbitrary and capricious" orders in an illegal attempt to reshape the federal workforce. Georgetown professor David Super explains what that means.

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“Sitting in a prison cell waiting for daybreak”: this is how Chinese legal activist Xu Zhiyong described the prospect of enduring a 14-year prison sentence, handed down by a Shandong court in 2023. Xu ...

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On July 1, 2024, as student protests over job quotas erupted in Bangladesh, Prof Muhammad Yunus faced a serious risk of imprisonment. Just six months earlier, in his role as the chairman of Grameen ...