Imagine standing in a voting booth, excited to vote for the Republican senator you have supported for years. You scan down the ballot, see Sullivan, and confidently mark the bubble. Only later do you realize there were two Sullivans, and you might have picked the wrong one. That is the exact scenario that exploded in Alaska less than a week before Election Day, when The New York Times reported that people with ties to Democrat Mary Peltola’s U.S. Senate campaign and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee had helped put a candidate named Daniel J. Sullivan on the ballot. Peltola, a…

GENEVA — On a late October morning, grief and anger rippled through the global nursing community. In the Democratic Republic of Congo, a nurse had gone to respond to an Ebola case—an act of courage that should have been met with gratitude, not violence. Instead, according to reports, young men armed with machetes killed the nurse, leaving colleagues and communities in shock. The news reached Geneva, where Howard Catton, chief executive of the International Council of Nurses (ICN), was already familiar with the dangers health workers face. But this attack felt different in a crucial way: it was not the…