The Australian election demonstrates the virtue of ranked choice voting.

Egyptian freedom fighter Alaa Abd El Fattah has been on hunger strike for two months and is getting close to death. His supporters hope the UK will try to have him released.

Lawyers asking the International Criminal Court to investigate Israel's killing of Palestinian journalists have added Shireen Abu Aqleh to the case.

The Republican Party is winning support from various sorts of groups who stand to lose from Republican policies, through party-operated "community centers".

Some years ago, Florida Republicans passed a "red flag" law by which a court can order someone's guns to be taken away, for a range of possible causes. The order lasts only a year or two, but the practice seems to have some good effect.

However, Republicans have become more fanatical since then. Governor DeMantis wants to get rid of the law.