It looks like nothing will convince Australian PM Scott Morrison to stop trying to convert Australia and the rest of the world to ashes. How can Australia bypass his power and protect itself?

Florida's citizens voted to allow ex-cons convicted of felonies to vote, so the Republican legislature found an excuse to block 80% of them: requiring them to pay all their fines and court fees first.

There is no record of what any ex-con owes, so those who wish to pay these fines and fees have no way to make sure they have done so.

*Germany will pay billions to speed up coal-fired power plant shutdowns.*

It is important to shut down the coal-burning plants, but the idea that electric utilities should not have to pay any part of the cost of this change seems unfair to me. If it is a matter of supporting the poorer eastern regions of Germany, the support should go to those regions and their people, not to electric utilities.

*Brazil culture secretary forced out after appearing to paraphrase Nazi Goebbels.*

Bolsonaro often appoints ministers for sharing his extremist ideology.

Putin's plan to reduce the president's power seems designed to transfer the power to other offices which he could hold for the rest of his life.