*The strategy that worked in Kansas [for defending abortion rights] — countering misinformation, building a broad coalition — offers lessons for [other states].*

Australia holds hundreds of people in prison without a conviction for any crime, and has no statistics about why, or how many.

An activist campaigning against voter fraud in Wisconsin ordered mail-in ballots for other people, found it was easy to do, then went public.

It would be wrong to file charges against the activist. He did not try to vote using those ballots. But what should the state do instead?

In effect, he tried to demonstrate that the state doesn't have much security against this sort of fraud. Apparently that is true. Is that a real problem?

If people actually use this "security hole" for fraud, I think it is a real problem and the state should fix it.

On the other hand, if nobody really does this, maybe the system is not really broken and there is no need to fix it.

The Mediterranean Sea ecosystems are threatened by marine heat waves.

A team of scientists concludes that Sars-Cov-2 almost certainly entered humans in the wild animal market in Wuhan.

I think the question of how the virus started infecting humans is interesting, but not morally important. Its importance is only to affect precisely what we might learn about how to prevent future epidemics.

It could be that we already know the crucial lessons for preventing pandemics from starting from wild animals, and for preventing pandemics from starting from lab leaks, and all we need not is to put them into practice. Regardless of which path this virus followed, we know both dangers exist.