Journal Editorial Report: The week’s best and worst from Kim Strassel, Allysia Finley and Dan Henninger.

© Eddie Seal/Bloomberg News/475th Separate Assault Regiment CODE 9.2/AP/Patrick McDermott/Getty Images

Journal Editorial Report: Suddenly, socialism is becoming the party's norm.

© Dominick Sokotoff/ZUMA Press

The political parties could unite around increasing federal power, the opposite of what America needs.

© Library of Congress

The opposition leader returns after months in exile. Elections are possible in July.

© Federico Parra/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images

The opposition leader returns after months in exile. Elections are possible in July.

© Federico Parra/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images

The CFTC has neither the competency nor statutory authority to regulate gambling.

© Dado Ruvic/Reuters

The CFTC has neither the competency nor statutory authority to regulate gambling.

© Dado Ruvic/Reuters

The system today provides strong incentives not to accept responsibility for anything bad.

© Tim Sloan/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images

The system today provides strong incentives not to accept responsibility for anything bad.

© Tim Sloan/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images

Higher interest rates and tighter financial conditions are precisely the tools needed to cool that demand.

© Sam Mircovich/Reuters

What must change is how universities design curricula and assessments.

© Getty

What must change is how universities design curricula and assessments.

© Getty

Journal Editorial Report: Paul Gigot interviews Wall Street Journal columnist Karl Rove.

© CJ Gunther/Getty Images

The answer isn’t to pretend we are neutral.

© Getty

Governments in the region are straining to honor the entitlements of future pensioners, threatening a fragile generational contract.

© Uygar Ozel/ZUMA Press

Journal Editorial Report: Antisemitism has put a reliable vote at risk.

© Seth Wenig/Associated Press

His family describe the night police told them of his death, and watching him being handcuffed.

Five officers from the Hamas-run police have been killed in Khan Younis and three people, including a child, killed in Gaza City, officials say.

Leakers have pieced together a playable version of the canceled Portal prequel F-Stop. Most of the assets came from the massive 12-terabyte leak that dropped this August. That didn't include the game's source code or map data, but those final pieces apparently hit the Valve Cut Content Discord this week, allowing a nearly complete version to be pieced together.

Some dialog and elements of F-Stop eventually found their way into Portal 2. But it differs dramatically from the mainline Portal games in that it's built around a camera mechanic that lets you capture an item by taking its picture and place it elsewhere using the resulting Polaroid …

Read the full story at The Verge.

The BBC asked voters from across the United States what voting means to them and whether they think it matters in the midterm elections.