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Why Power Holders Can’t Resist Rigging Elections

One by-election in rural Kenya just laid the whole game bare Elections are supposed to be contests.In too many countries they’ve become something else entirely: a survival ritual where the incumbent must win at any cost. Last month’s by-election in…

Shutdown — Yet ICE Accelerated

A government frozen — but enforcement didn’t flinch. The shutdown wasn’t OFF, it was selective. Between October and November 2025, the U.S. government hit a wall. Budget talks collapsed, agencies idled, and paperwork stacked up like sediment. Tax refunds stalled.…