Suzanne Nossel is a columnist at Foreign Policy, the Lester Crown senior fellow for U.S. foreign policy and international order at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, and a senior advisor to the Starling Institute. She is the author of Dare to Speak: Defending Free Speech for All.
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