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Why the Continued Silence on Evan Gershkovich?

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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 2024
But it would be a simpler and less dangerous remedy to grant no privilege to any, giving to all equal cultivation and equal independence, and leaving every one to determine his own position. Natural inequality will soon make way for itself, and wealth will spontaneously pass into the hands of the most capable.
– Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America [1835]

HORNBERGER’S BLOG
September 4, 2024
Why the Continued Silence on Evan Gershkovich?
It has now been more than a month since Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich was released from Russian custody. Gershkovich had been incarcerated for more than a year on charges of being a spy for the U.S. government, a charge fiercely denied by both the Journal and the U.S. government. Throughout the ordeal, Journal officials and U.S. officials failed to disclose Gershkovich’s …
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