Soviet show trials were not just sham proceedings. The charges were often purposefully absurd, as if to communicate that it wasn’t about justice, or even retribution, just a naked demonstration of the ...

Mario Loyola is a Senior Fellow in Law, Economics, and Technology at The Heritage Foundation. Soviet show trials were not just sham proceedings. The charges were often purposefully absurd, as if to ...

A show trial is “held in public with the intention of influencing or satisfying public opinion, rather than of ensuring justice,” according to Oxford. That sounds like what Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s ...

Ian Vazquez from the Cato Institute offered some context and details about the trial of Hong Kong newspaper owner Jimmy Lai, during a conversation with Carl Cannon on Thursday's edition of the ...