Democrats dropped Covid response from a bill to keep the government operating. This includes testing, vaccination, treatment, and more.

Republican requirements on voting by mail have been effective at rejecting some voters' ballots.

We don't know how many people gave up on even trying to vote because of other obstacles to voting by mail or dropping off ballots.

*Tens of thousands take part in climate protests across France.*

A suggestion for how to avoid escalation of the war in Ukraine into a nuclear war.

Joseph Stiglitz: the IMF may have learned a crucial lesson. Instead of the usual futile attempt to squeezing money out of Argentina, and causing a recession, it is adopting a gentler policy that will let Argentina have some economic growth so it can afford to pay its debt.

For the long term, the world needs a way to stop frivolous spendthrift governments that borrow and spend on unimportant things from saddling a country's populace with burdensome debt. One idea I have thought about is a way for a country to declare bankruptcy. Another is a way to punish the leaders of the frivolous government.