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Roughly two dozen countries have compulsory voting on the books. Australia has enforced it for a century. Here is what it changes, what it doesn't, and why the argument never goes away.
Private bathrooms, unarmed guards and kitchens where inmates cook their own meals. Norway's approach to prison sounds soft. Here is why it was designed that way, what the numbers do and don't prove, and the uncomfortable question it leaves behind.
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