A London thug arrested a female stranger for no reason other than so he could rape her and kill her. This shocking incident has threads running to other, more frequent forms of injustice to women.

Lots of thugs engage in violence towards women.

Calling for a thorough investigation of this.

US citizens: call on Democratic leadership to strip the $25 billion taxpayer giveaway to Big Oil from the infrastructure bill.

*Section 51, part 6 of the Tennessee law makes lesson plans illegal if students "feel discomfort, guilt, or anguish."*

Children have no reason to feel personally guilty about events that happened before they were born. But they might well feel discomfort and even anguish when they read about American slavery, Jim Crow, the Vietnam War, the conquest and occupaton of Iraq, the Holocaust, the Great Depression, or the Chinese cultural revolution. Indeed, if the lesson is clear, and students grasp what anguish people suffered during those events, they will surely feel some anguish in sympathy.

The law, if applied generally, would be absurd. But I don't think it is meant to be applied generally. I suspect it is meant to be applied selectively in a racist way.

Everyone: call on Facebook to treat a person's political campaign ads as if they came from that person.

Local opposition has defeated construction of the Penneast fracked-gas pipeline from Pennsylvania to New Jersey.