| Ahead of midterms, states scrambling to fend off cyberattacks Posted: 03 Jul 2018 12:30 PM PDT ![Ahead of midterms, states scrambling to fend off cyberattacks]( "Ahead of midterms, states scrambling to fend off cyberattacks") With the 2018 midterm elections fast approaching, security experts are warning that the nation's election infrastructure will once again come under assault by hackers seeking to undermine American democracy. "We average 100,000 scans on our [computer] systems a day," Missouri's secretary of state, Jay Ashcroft, told a recent Senate panel examining election security. Mr. Ashcroft and other state election officials were asked how often they detect attempts specifically to break into voter-registration and other election-related systems.
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| Upcoming Trump-Putin summit gives Russians hope for US thaw Posted: 03 Jul 2018 12:20 PM PDT ![Upcoming Trump-Putin summit gives Russians hope for US thaw]( "Upcoming Trump-Putin summit gives Russians hope for US thaw") At least from Moscow's viewpoint, it's been a disastrous year and a half for Russian-American relations. President Trump's campaign promises to "get along with Russia" excited the hopes of many here. While Russian experts caution that no diplomatic breakthroughs are likely, they are taking the White House's offer to meet as a sign that the neo-cold-war chill that began under Barack Obama has finally reached rock bottom.
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| An impending revolution in Mexico Posted: 03 Jul 2018 09:11 AM PDT ![An impending revolution in Mexico]( "An impending revolution in Mexico") In many democracies, a new leader who wins an election with an anti-corruption platform might lean toward one of two choices: Overhaul corrupt institutions or change public attitudes that accept and perhaps even expect corruption. To put it another way, does the problem lie mainly in societal attitudes or in how attitudes are altered and abused by corrupt practices from on high? Now, after the election July 1 of Andrés Manuel López Obrador as Mexico's next president, the world will have the opportunity to see how one leader will implement such a choice.
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| How laughter brought more voters to the polls in Colombia Posted: 03 Jul 2018 07:36 AM PDT ![How laughter brought more voters to the polls in Colombia]( "How laughter brought more voters to the polls in Colombia") A week before Colombia's June presidential run-off, Sebastián Os was perched in the second row of Bogotá's crowded national theater. Ecstatic, the teen sat just a few feet away from the star of the show, his unlikely hero: a middle-aged political humorist and YouTube celebrity Daniel Samper. Mr. Samper's online series, "#HolaSoyDanny" (Hi, I'm Danny), has developed a huge following across Colombia.
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