The chief justice of the Philippines' supreme court has been removed for resisting Do-dirty's death squads.

Charter schools in some US states threaten public education by draining off funds to privatized schools. Even if it doesn't make public education collapse, it takes away funds which were insufficient already.

A Japanese politician is pushing women to have more children. Some European countries are doing the same thing.

This is dangerous short-term thinking; the human race needs to reduce its birth rate so as to decrease the population without violence. Otherwise climate mayhem and topsoil depletion and ecological disasters are likely to reduce our population in very painful ways.

On the break between individual feminism (making each woman stronger and better able to resist sexism) and social feminism (working together to end sexism).

In principle, I'm in favor of both forms. I don't think they conflict except occasionally in details. Sexism is a form of bigotry, so it is good to help the targets of bigotry overcome it, and also good to change society to reduce it. Just as workers organize against injustice toward workers, woman can organize too.

However, no one is entitled to demand special sensitivity from others. Demands are legitimate when what is at stake are your rights. Anything beyond that, you can request but not demand.

US citizens: call on Saboteur Zinke not to allow oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.