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Daniel Straub remembers the night he got hooked on basic income. He had invited Götz Werner, a billionaire owner of a German drugstore chain, to give an independent talk in Zurich, where Straub was working as a project manager for a think tank. He had...

Support for a universal basic income (defined here) is growing. In Europe, for example, the City of Utrecht is about to introduce an experiment that aims “to challenge the notion that people who receive public money need to be patrolled and punished...

Last Sunday, Egypt’s military leader arrived in New York to participate in the week-long annual debate, alongside country leaders and member state representatives from over 190 countries in an attempt to legalize his shaken reign. This is the third time...

Digital Citizen is a monthly review of news, policy, and research on human rights and technology in the Arab World. Since our last report, access to communications networks has been contested across the Arab region — Internet blackouts continue...

Editor's Note: In an era of increasing hostility to independent media, one of the bright spots is the rapid expansion of journalism nonprofits around the world -- training, promoting, and reporting on stories that otherwise would never see the light...