In 1860, Anna Elizabeth Dickinson, the daughter of Quaker abolitionists, attended a public debate titled “Women’s Rights and Wrongs” in Philadelphia. Unexpectedly, she found herself speaking up against a man who believed that women were equal to men but more suited for domestic roles. Dickinson pointed out that with such a father, it was no …
Lisa Terauchi-D’Rozario’s husband lost his job as a captain with Hong Kong airline Cathay Dragon after 14 years due to the pandemic-induced job cuts that Cathay Pacific implemented, she said. The family was devastated by the news and returned to the Netherlands, her husband’s home country. However, they soon decided to pursue a life at …
Ten years ago, a group of journalists including documentary filmmaker Laura Poitras, blogger Glenn Greenwald, and a Guardian reporter, flew from New York to Hong Kong to meet an individual claiming to be a spy with a trove of secret documents. This individual turned out to be Edward Snowden, a contractor with the National Security …
According to court documents filed by Yintao “Roger” Yu, a former executive at ByteDance, the parent company of TikTok, Chinese Communist Party officials had access to a “god credential” on the social media platform that allowed them to track pro-democracy protesters and civil rights activists in Hong Kong. The court filing alleges that CCP officials …