Benjamin L. Cardin: “Transnational repression is not new, but modern technologies have expanded the governments' reach like never before.”

I think it is absolutely essential that we be very clear that Maduro was not elected as president of Venezuela.

You have found the Achilles hill of the Putin regime. They rape, torture and kill with impunity and keep their ill-gotten gains in the West.

That is why virtually every international aid organization that has operated worldwide for decades says they have never experienced a worse manmade humanitarian disaster than that in Gaza.

Nowhere has this been more on display than what has occurred in Hong Kong in recent years as the passage of the National Security Law and entry into force of Article 23 destroyed what remains of Hong Kong's democracy.