Young Dalit women are taking the lead to campaign against the rapes and murders carried out by upper-cast people to keep them down.

The perpetrators' first line of defense are the thugs, who refuse to take reports of these crimes, and even conspire with the perpetrators, who have the support of their caste-mates.

This calls to mind the racist arbitrary searches of people on the street in New York City. I think the fact that they are arbitrary already makes them wrong, but the racist application of arbitrariness is part of a broader pattern.

In several cases listed, Dalit victims committed suicide. Suicide sometimes works as a protest, but if you do it in private, it only gives the oppressor a further victory. If you are ready to die because you can't bear the oppression, you may as well go down fighting.

New York City Comptroller Liu proposes legalization and regulated sale of marijuana.

His report estimates the city could save $31 million a year by legalizing sale of marijuana, and bring in $400 million a year by taxing it to keep the price the same.

That's without counting all the other benefits, in the form of decreased repression and lives not ruined.

Senators Sanders and Boxer propose a law that would really do something to curb global heating.

Bloomberg wants to install electronic locks on New York City public housing. This means that the doors will record who enters and when, and deliver this info to the state.

Oh, he also proposed fingerprinting the residents.

Four questions the next chairman of the Federal Reserve should have to answer.