The Democratic National Committee's response to Republican voter suppression laws is pathetically weak: let's each try harder to overcome the obstacles.

This fails to use the power of collective action.

A new Texas antiabortion law is designed to make it difficult to challenge in court in advance, because there is no way to determine who to sue about the question.

Right-wing fanatics in Georgia (in the Caucasus) attacked people who were organizing a pride parade, and journalists, and killed one of them.

Belarus is recruiting migrants to send overland into Lithuania. Now Lithuania is building a border wall.

Previously, Turkey exploited the contradiction between Europe's adherence to the principle of giving refugees asylum and its fear of giving it to more than a few refugees.

Uttar Pradesh is considering a two-children-per-family law.

Reducing the number of births would be a good goal, but doing it by punishing the children when a family is overlarge is a cruel method of doing so.