For Indian women, rape is the extreme manifestation of a spectrum of subjection that starts when they are children.

The Tory minister in charge of deportation said she didn't know about the numerical targets, but a secret memo shows she was lying.

A former manager of the immigration agency says that ministers could hardly have been ignorant of the targets. He also says that the policy ("hostile environment") is more responsible for the cruelty than the targets are. Maybe that is so, but targets can push staff to be crueler than their consciences would normally permit.

US Republicans are even worse, because they are theocratic too. The Tories don't judge people by their lifestyle, only by their wealth.

"Rubber-Stamping" Trump's War Cabinet, 6 Democrats Voted With GOP to Confirm Mike Pompeo as Secretary of State.

These DINOs are Joe Donnelly (Indiana), Heidi Heitkamp (North Dakota), Doug Jones (Alabama), Joe Manchin (West Virginia), Claire McCaskill (Missouri), and Bill Nelson (Florida). If I lived in one of those states, I would support a progressive primary challenger at the next opportunity.

The Southern Poverty Law Center made the town of Corinth, Mississippi, stop jailing poor people over fines they could not pay.

However, towns and cities across the US engage in this cruelty. In many cases it is a byproduct of Republican tax-cutting. For plutocratists, squeezing money out of poor people is preferable to taxing rich people.

US school dress codes are often explicitly biased against blacks, but even when they aren't, they tend to be enforced in a biased way (like so many laws).