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Reporters Without Borders
Reporters Without Borders (Reporters sans frontières, RSF), founded 1985 in Montpellier, is a Paris-based NGO defending press freedom; it publishes the annual World Press Freedom Index ranking 180 countries on five indicators.
Represent (clothing brand)
Represent is a British luxury streetwear brand founded in 2011 by brothers George and Mike Heaton in Manchester, known for weekly drops and its 247 activewear line.
Representation of the People Act 1918
UK act of 6 February 1918 (1918 c. 64) that abolished most property qualifications for men and enfranchised women over 30 with property qualifications, tripling the electorate from 7.7 to 21.4 million.
Representative agent
The representative agent is a hypothetical household or firm whose choices stand in for an entire economy, tracing to Alfred Marshall's representative firm and foundational to DSGE macroeconomic models.
Representative democracy
Representative democracy: citizens elect politicians who make decisions on their behalf. Covers delegate versus trustee roles (Madison, Burke, Pitkin, Rehfeld), origins in England and Poland from 1493, delegation and accountability theory, and 2023-2024 global survey data on support and trust.
Representativeness heuristic
Representativeness heuristic: judgment of probability by resemblance to a category prototype, proposed by Kahneman and Tversky (1972); produces base-rate neglect, sample-size neglect, and the conjunction fallacy, and differs from the availability heuristic, which judges by ease of recall.
RepresentUs
RepresentUs is a nonpartisan American grassroots anti-corruption and democracy reform organization founded in 2012 by Josh Silver and Joshua Graham Lynn, based in Florence, Massachusetts, known for state and local ballot wins including South Dakota's first statewide Anti-Corruption Act and Michigan's independent redistricting commission; current CEO Maria McFarland Sánchez-Moreno.
Repressed memory
Repressed memory: the Freudian concept that trauma can be unconsciously blocked and later recovered, central to the 1990s memory wars; contested by false-memory research, with dissociative amnesia as its substitute term.
Reprisals against commentators on the Charlie Kirk assassination
Reprisals against commentators on the Charlie Kirk assassination were firings and investigations targeting those who spoke critically about the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk on September 10, 2025.
Reproductive Freedom for All
Reproductive Freedom for All, formerly NARAL Pro-Choice America (renamed September 2023), is a Washington, DC-based 501(c)(4) founded in 1969; it organizes 4.5 million members for abortion access, lobbies federal and state government, and runs electoral programs through a PAC and 501(c)(3) foundation under CEO Mini Timmaraju.
Reproductive rights
Reproductive rights, also called reproductive choice or reproductive health rights, are recognized human rights to decide freely and responsibly whether and when to have children, first affirmed at the 1968 Teheran conference.
ReproNovo
ReproNovo S.A. is a Swiss clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company founded in 2021 in Lausanne, developing oral therapies for male infertility and adenomyosis, backed by a $65 million Series A in 2025.
Reptilian conspiracy theory
The reptilian conspiracy theory, or lizard people theory, claims shape-shifting reptilian humanoids secretly rule the world; popularized by David Icke in The Biggest Secret (1999), with no credible evidence.
Reptilian humanoid
Reptilian humanoid (Reptoid, Lizard People, Draconian): a humanlike being with reptilian features in myth, pulp fiction since Robert E. Howard's 1929 The Shadow Kingdom, and David Icke's 1990s shape-shifting-elite conspiracy theory; no physical evidence supports the literal claim.
Repton School
Repton School is a co-educational independent boarding and day school in Repton, Derbyshire, founded in 1557 by Sir John Port's will on the site of an Augustinian priory dissolved in 1538; about 1,000 pupils, headmaster Mark Semmence, with international branch schools in Dubai, Abu Dhabi, and Cairo.
Reptynub
Reptynub, also written Reputneb, was a queen consort of Egypt's Fifth Dynasty, known as the wife of King Nyuserre Ini and attested by a statue found at Abusir.
Republic
Republic, from Latin res publica (public matters), a state whose head of state is not a monarch; also a political tradition from Machiavelli to Madison centered on civic virtue, mixed constitution, rule of law, and liberty as non-domination.
Republic (Πολιτεία) (Plato)
Plato's Republic (Πολιτεία, Politeia), a ten-book Socratic dialogue of roughly 394–370 BC, argues justice always benefits the just person via the ideal philosopher-ruled kallipolis, tripartite soul, and cave allegory.
Republic Biscuit Corporation
Republic Biscuit Corporation, known as Rebisco, is a family-owned Philippine snack-food manufacturer founded by Jacinto Ng Sr. in 1963, exporting to 48 countries and controlling Asia United Bank.
Republic Day
Republic Day (गणतंत्र दिवस), India's national holiday on 26 January, marks the Constitution coming into force in 1950. Distinguished from Independence Day (15 August), it features the Kartavya Path parade, gallantry awards, and Beating Retreat on 29 January.
Republic of Artsakh (Արցախի Հանրապետություն) (government in exile)
Government-in-exile in Yerevan of the Republic of Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh), also called the Artsakh Republic, after its 2023 dissolution decree and Azerbaijan's takeover; led by Samvel Shahramanyan then acting president Ashot Danielyan, opposed by Armenia's government.
Republic of Belarus (Рэспубліка Беларусь) (1991–1995)
Republic of Belarus (Рэспубліка Беларусь), 1991–1995: the early independent Belarusian state between Soviet collapse and the 1996 constitutional crisis, covering Shushkevich's leadership, the 1994 Constitution, Lukashenka's free 1994 election, the 1995 referendum, and economic transition.
Republic of Biak-na-Bato
Republic of Biak-na-Bato (República de Filipinas): 1897 short-lived Filipino revolutionary republic under Emilio Aguinaldo at San Miguel, Bulacan, with a provisional constitution (November 1, 1897) and Supreme Council, ended by the Pact of Biak-na-Bato (December 1897) and exile to Hong Kong.
Republic of Central Albania
The Republic of Central Albania (Republika e Shqipërisë së Mesme) was a short-lived, unrecognised state proclaimed at Durrës on 16 October 1913 by Essad Pasha Toptani, in rivalry with Ismail Qemali's government.
Republic of Central Lithuania
The Republic of Central Lithuania (Litwa Środkowa) was a short-lived state centered on Vilnius, proclaimed in 1920 by General Lucjan Żeligowski and absorbed by Poland in 1922.
Republic of China (中华民国) (1912–1949)
The Republic of China (中华民国) was the Chinese state established in 1912 after the fall of the Qing dynasty, ruling the mainland until the Communist victory in 1949.
Republic of China Air Force (中华民国空军)
The Republic of China Air Force (中华民国空军, ROCAF) is Taiwan's air force, founded from 1920s Nationalist aviation schools, flying F-16, Mirage 2000-5 and indigenous IDF fighters, and modernizing with F-16V Block 70 deliveries.
Republic of China Army (中华民国陆军)
Republic of China Army (中华民国陆军, ROC Army) is Taiwan's land-force branch under Army Command Headquarters, MND. Founded 1944 in Kunming, reconstituted on Taiwan in 1950; mission is homeland defense, littoral and joint operations.
Republic of China Navy (中华民国海军)
Republic of China Navy (中华民国海军, ROC Navy, Taiwan Navy): naval branch of Taiwan's armed forces, formed after the 1949 KMT retreat; mixed foreign and indigenous fleet, Naval Shipbuilding Development Center, first homebuilt submarines, facing the far larger PLAN.
Republic of Cochinchina
The Republic of Cochinchina (Nam Kỳ Cộng hòa quốc) was a French-backed state created on 1 June 1946 covering southern Vietnam, with its capital at Saigon.