PEN America claims to support free speech, but fired me for speaking about Palestine

August 4, 2025
Kori Davis

The free speech organization PEN America fired me three days after I published an article about how they investigated me for sharing an article critical of Zionism. My termination is a sad reflection of PEN's censorious approach to Palestine.

A banner hanging at the 2020 PEN America Literary Awards Ceremony on March 2, 2020 in New York City

What has become of Mauritania's fishermen fifteen years after the authorities signed an agreement with China?

August 4, 2025
Jean Sovon and Vivian Wu

Unchecked industrial fishing practices have severely depleted coastal waters in West Africa

Women wading out with baskets to meet a fishing boat in the shallows, to buy the fresh fish at Port de Pêche, or Fishermen's Beach, in Nouakchott, the capital city of Mauritania. Image from Wikipedia Attribution 2.0 Generic