January 14, 2026

Twenty-Second Annual Seymour Martin Lipset Lecture | Leopoldo...

05:45 PM - 07:00 PM

The 2025 Seymour Martin Lipset Lecture on Democracy in the World will be delivered by Leopoldo López, a Venezuelan prodemocracy activist and cofounder of the World Liberty Congress.

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October 02, 2025

EVENT RECAP: Breaking Through: How Citizens Are Fighting Modern Authoritarian...

  Authoritarian regimes worldwide are intensifying their crackdown on independent voices—silencing dissent, restricting access to information, and punishing those who refuse to conform. On September...

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September 18, 2025

Breaking Through: How Citizens Are Fighting Modern Authoritarian...

09:30 AM - 11:00 AM

The National Endowment for Democracy hosts a discussion on how authoritarian regimes deploy censorship and “sharp power” tactics to silence free expression worldwide—and how democracies can respond.

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August 11, 2025

China Salon Event Recap: How the PRC Is Using AI to Censor, Surveil, and...

In China today, AI can censor a million online posts in less than a second and generate convincing propaganda at a keystroke. At the latest in the China Salon series of events hosted by the National Endowment...

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