The challenge of investigating and prosecuting the Putin forces' apparent war crimes.

Many UK government agencies are quick to hand debts of a few dollars worth to a collection agency, which will tack on a few hundred more and ruin someone's life.

The agency will presume that any bureaucratic confusion is your fault, and that justifies nasty treatment of you.

The CDC's current message to the public is, if the hospitals in your county are not close to being packed with Covid-19 patients, relax and don't worry about taking precautions.

To the extent that local governments base their rules on this guidance, it will tend to encourage careless contagion.

Nationwide standardized tests have been tried for decades in several different varieties, each supposedly going to make US public education better, and each a failure in its own terms. Each time they fail, the proponents insist on trying another variation.

How about getting rid of them entirely?

A former teacher in Kabul denounces the Taliban for closing schools for women.

I wish I could see a way to change this.