*Left Coalition Says McAuliffe Campaign Was a 'Controlled Experiment for What Not to Do in 2022'. Either excite voters with a bold agenda or risk losing power to the GOP.*

China jailed Zhang Zhan for publishing reports on the initial Covid-19 outbreak in China. She has been on a hunger strike, and reportedly is weak and close to dying.

Reporters Without Borders reminds us that other writers and publishers are in prison in China for publishing.

*The Paterson [corruption] debacle shows that Johnson no longer has advisers — he has courtiers.* Bogus Johnson repeatedly shrugs off criticism of his own corrupt acts, and the Tory MPs just barely learned to resist this to eliminate all checks on their corruption.

The Prison Arts Collective teaches art in prisons in the US. Beyond enriching their lives, it can also help them learn to live outside prison.

Replanting destroyed seagrass meadows by hand is a crucial method of restoring the ocean's ability to sequester CO2.

It can also provide employment.