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1. Ottawa and others provide comfort for Cuban regime

   President Miguel Diaz-Canel has essentially called for violence against protesters. ...

2. For freedom’s sake, rate Hong Kong

   The Heritage Foundation has dropped Hong Kong from its 2021 Index of Economic Freedom. ...

3. Hope springs eternal for freedom worldwide

   A freedom recedes globally, the question is whether the tide has turned for good. Pessimism is in order for the short-run (say 20 years), but history provides hope for the long-run. The just released Human Freedom Index 2020: A Global ...

4. The Human Freedom Index 2020

   The Human Freedom Index is the most comprehensive freedom index so far created for a globally meaningful set of countries representing 94 percent of the world’s population. The HFI covers 162 countries for 2018, the most recent year for which sufficient ...

5. An Open Letter to the People of Hong Kong

   An international group of think tanks from 35 nations and territories from around the world has penned an open letter condemning the actions of the Communist Party of China and supporting the people of Hong Kong. On Tuesday, China’s National People’s ...

6. China—world freedom’s greatest threat

   China's military budget is three-and-a-half times larger than Russia’s. ...

7. The tide of global freedom is receding—but there’s hope

   Appeared in the National Newswatch, January 25, 2019 Is the world losing its taste for freedom as we move further into 2019? Two recent reports confirm the perception that freedom is under attack globally. The Human Freedom Index, a joint project of ...

8. Where the rule of law weakens, freedom wanes

   Appeared in National Newswatch, February 21, 2018 For the first time in decades, basic human freedom is under attack globally. Journalists and opposition leaders are killed in Russia. China’s Communist Party stifles dissent on the mainland while ...

9. Human Freedom: From Pericles to Measurement

   Appeared in The Independent Review, Summer 2014 Without an objective measure of freedom, it is impossible to determine whether an action leads to increases or decreases in freedom, whether it lends stability to freedom or causes instability, or whether ...

10. Want to stop “illegal” immigrants from Central America? Copy Chile

    Appeared in GlobeandMail.com The presidents of Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador just visited U.S. President Barack Obama to urge him to change course in combatting the flood of illegal immigrants into the United States. The three heads of state ...