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ICYMI: McCain Institute’s Alexis Mrachek and Pedro Pizano Op-Ed in the Washington Examiner: “China Must Release Pastor Ezra Jin”
WASHINGTON, D.C. (November 21, 2025) – In a new op-ed published by the Washington Examiner, McCain Institute human rights and…
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U.S. Leadership on International Religious Freedom  
A recent United Nations report documented Russia’s targeting of civilian populations in Ukraine with drone attacks and concluded they constituted crimes against…
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ICYMI: McCain Institute’s Laura Thornton’s Op-Ed in Just Security: “After Another Sham Election in Georgia, the Country’s Citizens Persist”
WASHINGTON, D.C. (October 8, 2025) – McCain Institute Senior Director of Global Democracy Programs Laura Thornton highlights the deepening democratic decline…
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ICYMI: McCain Institute’s Jennifer Lundy in DC Journal: “Why Moldova’s Struggle Against Russian Influence Matters for America” 
WASHINGTON, D.C. (September 29, 2025) – In a new op-ed, “Why Moldova’s struggle against Russian influence matters for America,” McCain…
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ICYMI: McCain Institute’s Laura Thornton in Foreign Policy: “Russia Isn’t ‘Influencing’ Moldova’s Election”
In a new op-ed, “Russia Isn’t ‘Influencing’ Moldova’s Election,” McCain Institute Senior Director of Global Democracy Programs Laura Thornton warns…
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ICYMI: McCain Institute’s Laura Thornton Op-Ed: “Dispelling Russia’s Myths About Ukraine”
WASHINGTON, D.C. (June 27, 2025) — In a new op-ed, “Dispelling Russia’s Myths About Ukraine,” McCain Institute Senior Director of Global Democracy…
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ICYMI: McCain Institute’s Corban Teague Op-Ed in Providence Magazine: “Three Principles for Defending Human Rights Amid Great Power Competition”
McCain Institute Director of Human Rights & Freedom Program Corban Teague shared three principles for defending human rights as the…
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Op-Ed: What is Good Governance?
Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) operation are cutting government institutions and agencies to carry out the…
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Pulling Funding Means Pulling Breathing Tubes in Ukraine
Dr. James Gough is a 2022 McCain Global Leader from the United Kingdom and a former military and aid doctor.…
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ICYMI: McCain Institute’s Laura Thornton Op-Ed in Civil Georgia: “How Can the Protestors Win?”
McCain Institute Senior Director of Global Democracy Programs Laura Thornton compares democracy protest movements in the Philippines, Indonesia, and Bangladesh…
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Op-ed: Supporting Freedom and a Foreign Aid Freeze are Incompatible — But Perhaps the Point? A Case Study
WASHINGTON, D.C. (February 13, 2025) — McCain Institute Senior Director of Global Democracy Laura Thornton wrote an op-ed published by Just Security…
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ICYMI: McCain Institute’s Alexis Mrachek Op-Ed in The Hill: “3 steps for the Trump administration to target Uyghur forced labor” 
WASHINGTON, D.C. (December 18, 2024) – At the end of the first Trump administration, the State Department issued an atrocity…
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