Interviews with Syrian Kurds report on a region ruled by local neighborhood councils.

Senators are working on a bill that would effectively ban end-to-end encryption in commercial products (with their nonfree software).

Nonfree software is inherently untrustworthy; the developer can always insert a back door and deny it. Even without this law, you should not trust it.

Nonetheless, we should campaign against this law. If they go this far, who knows where they will go next.

20 UK charities that serve the mentally ill demand an investigation of dozens of cases in which welfare cuts resulted in people's deaths.

Ranked choice voting would fix the problem of primary votes which are cast early for a candidate that drops out before election day.

This is in addition to its other advantages.

Burma is using its libel law to sue a member of its parliament for saying that the army killed two Rohingya. And suing Reuters for reporting that.

Here is the original Reuters article.

Here is the article as Reuters modified it in response to the complaint.