Burma will have an election in November, but it won't be entirely free due to the perverse exclusion of Aung San Suu Kyi. We don't know whether it will be free in other respects.

Public funding for US elections could enable large numbers of people to overwhelm the money that billionaires give.

The biggest threat to Australian wildlife is habitat loss, but government protection policies ignore that and tend to make that worse.

Something's Missing From Pope Francis' "Radical" Vision of Equality: Women.

The UK government has cancelled, one by one, nearly all the programs to promote renewable energy.