Sarah McLaughlin

Sarah McLaughlin is Senior Scholar, Global Expression at the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression. She studies the relationship between authoritarianism, free nations, and global censorship. Her book about transnational repression in higher education, Authoritarians in the Academy, will be out in August 2025 at Johns Hopkins University Press. Her other writings have been featured in outlets including Foreign Policy, MSNBC, The Independent, The Daily Beast, Newsweek, New York Daily News, and l'Opinion.