Victor Brechenmacher

So you want to weaken your civil society? Cut off its foreign funding. By Victor Brechenmacher @ Brown University

On Saturday, Russian president Vladimir Putin signed into law a bill forcing all foreign-funded media in Russia to register as 'foreign agents.' The move echoes a 2012 Russian law asking the same of...

Have journalists figured out how to handle Trump? by Victor Brechenmacher @ Brown University

Boston University

It's become a received wisdom of sorts that the media failed to grasp Donald Trump's rise in 2016 ahead of time because "the press [took] him literally, but not seriously; his supporters [took] him...