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Human Trafficking
February 18, 2020
Melissa Gira Grant
The Trump Administration Finally Broke the Anti-Trafficking Movement
The bipartisan movement to “combat trafficking” was built on many of the same superficialities as the First Family, but everyone has their limit.
January 30, 2020
Melissa Gira Grant
The New Majority Behind Sex Work Decriminalization
An exclusive look at a groundbreaking policy transformation. There are lessons for the left to learn here.
January 15, 2020
Melissa Gira Grant
Human Trafficking Prevention Month Is a Dangerous Joke
For more than a decade, the designation has meant very little beyond self-serving press releases and bad reporting.
January 7, 2020
Melissa Gira Grant
Human Trafficking Courts Are Not a Criminal Justice “Innovation”
Anti-prostitution policing and these intervention courts believe they can racially profile and arrest their way to women's liberation.
August 12, 2019
Melissa Gira Grant
Jeffrey Epstein and the Myth of “Justice” in America
The U.S. criminal legal system protected him for years—and then it failed him, just as it has failed countless people of color who are put behind bars.
June 25, 2019
Magazine
Melissa Gira Grant
White Mom’s Burden
For years, Cindy McCain warned of dangerous men coming to enslave American women and girls. Now Trump is running with it.
May 15, 2019
Matt Ford
The Very American Case of Robert Kraft and a Florida Prostitution Sting
The prosecution of the Patriots owner, and his recent legal victories, reveal deep flaws in the U.S. criminal justice system.
March 27, 2017
Magazine
Eric Reidy
The General and the Refugee
Police from four countries joined forces to bring down a notorious human smuggler. Here's how they blew the operation—and why the crackdown on immigration is making things worse.
October 5, 2016
Sukjong Hong
How Could Anyone Think Mail-Order Brides Are Funny?
NBC’s aborted comedy about a purchased Filipina bride exposes the depths of the entertainment industry’s cultural blindness.
December 28, 2015
Elizabeth Bruenig
ISIS religiously sanctions organ harvesting, in keeping with its tradition of deplorability on every conceivable axis.
November 15, 2014
Jessica Schulberg
The American Government Is Funding Human Trafficking
The ugly business of how military contractors find their workers
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