Joseph Stiglitz: *Raising interest rates to tame inflation will only cause more pain.*

Victoria gave 2020 Covid-19 contact tracing data to an agency that investigates crime.

The reported purpose of this was to figure out the unknown ways that Covid-19 was spreading. That purpose is legitimate, but giving the data to an agency that investigates crime is going to make people worry that they can't trust the government with such data.

Indeed, such data may endanger whistleblowers. Lula has sued Bolsonaro for various reasons, one of which is accusing the country's computerized voting system of being vulnerable.

Bolsonaro has done much to undermine democracy and elections in Brazil, and morally deserves punishment. However, the general claim that Brazil's computerized voting system makes Brazil's elections vulnerable is valid. That is because the machines record only totals, and do not keep individual paper ballots that voters marked by hand. Such systems are vulnerable to someone, somehow.

Brazilian experts campaigned against this system when it was adopted, demanding a system that enabled the results to be audited, but they lost the battle.

There is no evidence that anything wrong happened in the voting machines in this election, but Brazil should change to an audit-able voting system for the sake of the future.

*Racism poses public health threat to millions worldwide, finds report.*

Comparing imprisoned antipollution protester Violet Coco with convicted polluters: *less than 6% of people charged with environmental pollution and property damage offenses are sent to prison.*

*[Dissident Ilya Yashin] sentenced to eight and a half years over series of posts about [Putin forces] atrocities in Bucha.*

Putin's obedient servants lie on command, too afraid to refuse. The wrecker has led US Republicans to do likewise. Yashin has chosen to go to prison rather than become a tool of falsehood.