As Russians paid tribute to the murderous tyrant, Stalin, thugs arrested two protesters who cried out denunciation of his crimes.

Russians have plenty of reason to hate Stalin. According to the figures cited in Wikipedia, Stalin killed almost 3 million people in the Soviet Union by execution, imprisonment or internal exile, plus 5 to 10 million by avoidable famine. The 1941 German invasion killed around 10 million civilians, and Stalin is responsible for some of those deaths through his elimination of 30,000 Red Army generals and high officers in 1937. The resulting lack of competent leadership allowed German forces to advance much farther.

You don't need to be a Communist to despise Stalin for the personal treachery of killing all the other Communist leaders that he started out among. The Communist Party was repressive already under Lenin, but Stalin distilled the essence cruelty, much as the bullshitter is doing with the Republican Party today.

Teaching boys sports can be a way to teach them to respect women's rights and dignity.

It's unions that win rights for women. That calls for more than just equal pay for women. It means that no one is trapped in a specific job.

It is hard for women to maintain women's rights if they are economically dependent on men.

Norway's state investment fund will divest from some fossil fuel activities.

It is insufficient, but momentous nonetheless.

Alabama has allowed a lawsuit against a woman in the name of the six-week-old embryo she aborted.

Sanders sought support from farming states by proposing to stop corporations from taking over family farms.

Merely enforcing the existing antitrust laws will not be enough.