Theater in the Time of Trump: Feminist Storytelling Against the Backdrop of Authoritarianism

Theater in the Time of Trump: Feminist Storytelling Against the Backdrop of Authoritarianism

The Trump administration’s assault on the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts continues, with another tranche of staff fired last Friday—employees in its government relations, marketing and social media departments. A prevailing question remains: What does the future of national public theater hold? Will the show(s) go on? News of the latest job cuts overlapped with the one-year anniversary of opening night of the Broadway show Suffs.…

Digital Authoritarianism and the Fight for Democracy

The ascendancy of authoritarianism around the world is facilitated by powerful new surveillance tools, new modes of censorship, and legal regimes that have failed to keep pace with technological change. Join Ron Deibert, cybersecurity expert and director of the Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto, and Jameel Jaffer, executive director of the Knight First Amendment Institute, for a discussion of the rise of digital authoritarianism and the fi