*House Democrats call on Justice Department to address 'insider threats' posed by candidates who believe false election fraud claims.*

After April, Americans without good medical insurance will have to pay for Covid-19 tests, treatment, and vaccines. Congress has eliminated the funding for this.

Meanwhile, the rash abandonment of mask and distance rules could soon result in increasing case numbers.

Veronika Belotserkovskaya, one of the first three victims of Putin's new law against "fake news", says she has been "officially declared a decent person." She does not feel threatened because she is not in Russia. But everyone in Russia faces mounting repression.

*Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s ordeal shows the uselessness of economic sanctions.* They usually fail to achieve their goal.

Neoliberalism's approach to regional disasters: the rich pay for their own rescue, and starve the state's treasury so it can't afford to rescue you.