In addition to arms-limitation treaties, Bolton has destroyed the National Security Council which used to consider issues including arms-limitation treaties.

Republicans "won" the 9th Congressional District of North Carolina by cheating — they removed over 100,000 mostly-Democratic voters from the voting list based on vague suspicions they might have voted in another state as well.

The margin of the supposed Republican victory was only 4,000. It is almost certain that the "victory" was due to cheating.

It is not illegal, or even suspect, to be registered to vote in two states. That is what normally happens when you move to another state and register there. Voters are not asked to tell the previous city, "I have moved away", the requirement is not to vote there.

However, many of the voters who were removed were not really registered in another state. The other registration had a name that was similar but different. Republicans do not fall into voter suppression by accident. These schemes are carefully planned, and occasionally politicians are heard admitting this. They push as far as they think they can get away with.

A region of Australia is close to running out of water completely.

I hope climate activists are working to inform the people there of how Australia's planet-roasting government is responsible.

An abortion doctor who recently died is being vilified by some for violating a recently passed Indiana law requiring fetuses to be buried as if they were people that had died.

I don't think he did anything wrong by violating that law. For one thing, we must suspect it was intended to lead people to condemn abortion for irrational reasons.

I do think the clinic should have followed more carefully the other laws, which are precautions for patients' safety.

The UK is sliding into the politics of unabashed dishonesty, following Russia, Australia, and the US.