7% of eligible UK voters do not have a photo ID card. Denying them the vote would do big harm to democracy there, as it does in the US.

After decades of the War on Drugs, we have repeated proof that imprisoning any number of traffickers, at any and all levels of the drug gangs, does nothing to reduce the drug trade. But it creates lots of bloodshed and corruption in Mexico.

The only thing that has made an improvement, where it has been tried, is to stop prosecuting people for possessing and using drugs.

Anonymous wealthy funders are manipulating UK politics about leaving the EU.

My guess is that the money is being spent by someone who has invested a lot of money in short sales of British businesses' stock.

The UK plans to require security cameras in taxis, and says they will be designed to stop them from being used for surveillance when there is no crime.

It will be necessary to verify that their design achieves this purpose, but I call this good news.

Sanders's Social Security Expansion Act, if passed, would give retired Americans an adequate income.