COMMENT: In some parts of the world, girls are forced to miss school when they have their periods. Places like Kenya, Ghana, Ethiopia and. . . New Zealand.

COMMENT: We urgently need to educate our society about media literacy and critical thinking.

COMMENT: Reducing a woman you've never met to her physicality is not a compliment; it's weird and inappropriate.

COMMENT: We need to save the Kiwi dream before it's too late.

COMMENT: Sadly, the game I once loved has mutated into a smorgasbord of unsavoury fare.

COMMENT: As a child of the Central North Island I can't think of a better place to be than the Bay of Plenty.

COMMENT: Funding for schools should be focused on what matters most: education.

COMMENT: The deeper I delve into the issue, however, the more I am struck by just how frightening the consequences of prohibition are.

COMMENT: It's time for senior Chiefs players to step forward, and tell us about the team's attitude to women.

COMMENT: Without any explanation, a decision was made to withdraw a murder charge that shocked and appalled many.The public has not yet been told why.

COMMENT: This the right time to take some risks to lift performance of places with potential, writes Michael Barnett.

Kiwi singing star Lizzie Marvelly has for the first time spoken about her experience with sexual harassment in the music industry.

COMMENT: The most recent issue to get the "more to Kiwi than iwi" treatment - from a disaffected group of extreme, right-wing, former politicians - is water rights.

COMMENT: Trade Minister Todd McClay is not an openly combative politician, writes Fran O'Sullivan.

So many great Pixar movies, but which is best? And where will the studio's latest feature, Inside Out, sit? Dominic Corry ranks all of Pixar's movies.

If you ever feel rugby in New Zealand is dying (and the Blues make it seem terminally ill), go and see The Ground We Won, writes Paul Lewis.