Foreign students in Australia, with no work and with universities shut, were desperate for an income, and were pushed into farm work under illegal conditions including taking their passports.

A proposed French law would criminalize publishing photos of thugs under conditions that would threaten anyone who documents their violence.

If you are French, please contact your député !

Countries are trying to make their economies "recover" from Covid-19 by "investing" in fossil fuel use.

Those "investments" are really giveaways, since it would be disaster to keep using them for their expected span of usage.

Careless Republicans — perhaps intentionally careless — seized on various errors and confusions to claim 14,000 dead people voted in Michigan. However, investigating 50 of those cases found that each of them either was still alive, or did not vote.

It is not feasible to investigate so many cases carefully, so Republicans didn't try.

Republican state officials overlook the same sorts of issues when "purging" people from voting lists.

*As long as the Democrats shy away from the redistributive action needed to tackle glaring inequalities in a country where the gap between richest and poorest has more than doubled in the past two decades, there will be an opening for the Trumpist right to present itself as the solution to a broken system – the alternative to Biden and the Senate Republican leader, Mitch McConnell.*

There are two paths that appear to lead out of the centrist pit: the honest path (someone like Sanders) and the lying path (someone like the wrecker).