Add America to the no-go list for many journalists

Tourists don’t feel the immediate effects of the countries clamping down, but journalists are the canaries in the coalmine, and I’m certainly feeling the change.

Quite suddenly, under President Donald Trump, the United States has become just another great power where foreigners watch what they say, try to minimize contacts with official bodies, writes Gwynne Dyer.Photograph courtesy of the White House/Daniel Torok

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

May 28, 2025

LONDON, U.K.—Straws in the wind: recently I ran across a post by the CEO of a nationwide professional association in Canada. People like him are used to hopping across the United States border for various meetings several times a month, but he was remarking on what people ...

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