Ray Hinton was convicted of murder in a careless, racist trial. It took 28 years to overturn the result.

Kentucky's Republican legislators passed a bill to cut teachers' pensions, in a super rush. Most of them didn't even read it.

Teachers immediately began shutting schools down. Their union plans to sue.

Around the US and in other countries too, teachers are fed up and eager to go on strike. Often they have to disregard their own unions to do so. In many places the union officials fear being jailed if they strike — but if you're not prepared to strike, you shouldn't run for union office.

We should see the decreasing pay of teachers as part of the general plutocratic process of driving down wages for most people.

The Atlantic magazine has hired a right-wing extremist troll as a columnist — for the sake of "diversity".

In his defense on one point, I have to point out that a black child is not merely comparable to a primate. That child is a primate. "Primate" is a taxonomical category, and our species falls within it. Therefore, all human beings, regardless of race (or age), are primates; exceptions are unthinkable. If the columnist meant to suggest that nonblacks might not be primates, I demand an apology for the racist insult.

However, perhaps he really intended a more traditional racist insult, the claim that blacks are monkeys, and tripped over his own ignorance in choosing the words.

By the way, if any psittacines, corvids, cetacia or octopoda feel slighted by our dubbing our own taxonomical order with a name whose original meaning was "those that come first," I will be glad to apologize and clasp hands/feet/flippers/arms.

That is only one point among many, and does not alter the overall conclusion. His views are systematically callous and cruel towards anyone who is weak or oppressed. It's the typical right-wing attitude that offers justification to whoever is strong enough to push others down.

I don't think a magazine should strive for "diversity" by publishing right-wing extremist trolls. They have a right to express their views, but a magazine does not have an obligation to publish them.

AT&T and Verizon threaten to sue the states that set up their own network neutrality requirements.