Reporters Without Borders | The role of free expression in fighting pandemics | Tracker 19 and Covid-19 | China | Hungary | Slovenia | Egypt | Ivan Bedrov of RFE/RL | Poetry from Ben Ray

EC Chief Spokesperson Eric Mamer | Virtual pressers and accountability | Emily Dickinson | Coyness on Hungary | Israel Butler of Liberties | Framing in the age of the virus

Věra Jourová on digital tracking and privacy | Pledging to vet Viktor Orbán | Fighting disinfo with WhatsApp and YouTube | East vs. West and face masks | Czech elections in 2023 | Madeleine Albright

Joelle Grogan on emergency powers | The Spanish flu | Detentions | Suspending parliaments | Closing borders | Viktor Orbán and rule by decree | Sunset clauses | Poland and Bulgaria

Michael Peel of the Financial Times | The Fabulists | The autocracy virus | European values | Muscat of Malta | Kaczyński of Poland | Orbán and Salvini | Trump at NATO | Modernizers | Historians | Existentialists

Magid Magid | Europe's Biggest Bigot and Bigot-Buster awards | Kajal Odedra of Change.org | Do Something: Activism for Everyone | Andrew Stroehlein of Human Rights Watch | Defenestration and democracy | Polarisation | Power mapping | Storylabbing

Mehreen Khan of the FT on civilizational racism | Macron spurns the Western Balkans | Andorra versus Albania | Majlinda Bregu of the Regional Cooperation Council | Foreign fighters | The legacy of the Ottomans in Brussels

Beating the trolls with Andrew Stroehlein of Human Rights Watch | Breaking the outrage cycle | How to Clean Up the Internet with David Babbs | Ending toxic anonymity | Rebutting the cyber-libertarians

Novelist and commentator Ahdaf Soueif | Losing the Mezzaterra | Resigning from the British Museum | The Cold War roots of terror | EU-funded authoritarianism in Egypt | The persistence of racist thinking

André Wilkens on taking culture wars seriously | The case of Katarzyna Wielga-Skolimowska | Marta Keil on threats to Polish museums and theatres | Croatia's Oliver Frljić versus Poland's Piotr Gliński | Fiction