Continued battles over gerrymandering in the US contrast with the way such things are handled in Australia, as exemplified by a redistribution just completed in Victoria.
Category: Political issues
No surprise in Uzbekistan
Uzbekistan's halting program of liberalisation results in a presidential election that's not much improvement on its predecessor.
Ninety per cent
After a slow start, Australia's vaccination rate has reached unexpected heights. For some reason, the Trumpism of its leaders has not had the same consequences as in the United States.
Do recantations matter?
Compare and contrast: Colin Powell and News Corp.
Broad front for democracy
Hungary's opposition turns to the centre-right to try to save democracy. There may be a lesson there for the United States.
Two French anniversaries
France commemorates two atrocities with differing political implications: an assassination last year and a massacre sixty years ago.
Two prime ministers down
Austria and Czechia, compare and contrast. One prime minister resigns and the other is given notice by the voters.
Texas vs civilisation
A US supreme court decision raises the prospect of giving the fundamentalists in the Republican Party what they say they want – possibly at a large political cost.
Post-Soviet independence
Ukraine and other former Soviet republics are celebrating 30 years of independence, but their place in the world still has elements of uncertainty.
Death of a tyrant
The death this week of a brutal twentieth-century dictator reminds us of how routine his crimes used to appear.
