Colorado is considering a ballot initiative for single-payer health care.

I am concerned that this is not a large enough step to work. Many low-paid workers have been forced to be "independent contractors", and I think many of them can't afford to contribute 10% of their pay for medical care.

I don't see how health care for the unemployed would be covered, and I don't see anything to push gouging prices down. Perhaps the scheme has measures for this which are not mentioned in the article. If not, I think it won't work.

The West's 'Fail-Anthropy'.

A company that handles prisoners' phone calls, including with their lawyers, records them all. Even when prisoners talk with their lawyers. Someone just got these recordings and leaked them.

Leaking them en mass was wrong, but not as wrong about what this company (Insecurus?) did.

Someone, presumably supporters of PISSI, murdered some Afghan Shi'ites by beheading them.

In response, crowds tried to storm the presidential palace, crying "Death to [President] Ghani, death to the Taliban."

I don't see why they want the former; but if Afghans remain fired up to fight the Taliban, they may have what it takes to defeat the Taliban.

Timothy Johnson was convicted of murder based on a false confession, then exonerated as there was no real evidence against him. He says that the thugs dangled him off the side of a bridge to get him to confess.

They also laid false charges against his parents to put pressure on him.