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A GOP incumbent governor won’t admit defeat. Elsewhere, new voting systems underperform.

The biggest city in the US is joining a voting reform movement.

Understanding how human behaviors affect the spread and virulence of a disease can inform preparations for the future.

Refugees are expected to share and curate their stories, but this can do more harm than good. The pressure of storytelling can leave refugees feeling disempowered, and there is often the expectation that refugees owe the wider public their stories.

Georgia’s Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger recently announced a voter purge of 330,000 people that could affect the 2020 elections. Voting rights activists are rallying to fight this and other similar purges throughout the South.

“Algerians cannot and will not put up with being humiliated any longer. They want to live in a democratic Algeria with social justice. The national wealth must be fairly distributed. Clientelism and corruption must be forever banished,”

Irish LGBTQ campaigner Joseph Healy joined the Pride march in his home town of Newry. He explains how life on the border has changed - and the stakes of Brexit installing a hard border between Northern Ireland and the Republic.

Workers’ party leader had been held for 580 days for corruption. Court rules incarceration unlawful until appeals exhausted.

All that surveillance is used to exert greater management control over workers, drilling them on their choices and how they spend every second.

Poet and Army veteran Karen Skolfield sees sexual assault in the military that “no one takes…seriously.”