Slavery and exploitation are not new issues. The more aware we are of its existence and how it continues to thrive in the world, the better off we are at fighting it.
Max Fraad Wolff | Posted 09.12.2009 | Business
If we are working fewer hours, getting lower wages and unable to borrow more, what comes next? New BLS data seriously questions the strength and endurance of the present economic rally.
Dale Buscher | Posted 09.11.2009 | World
It is time to implement interventions that are tailored to the local context, that build on the refugees' existing skills, and that match local market demand.
International Rescue Committee | Posted 07.13.2009 | World
African nations are witnessing a different kind of labor crisis -- the use of young children and teenagers as cheap workers in exploitative jobs and industries.
Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 05.14.2009 | World
Human Rights Watch (HRW) is reporting ongoing brutal rapes by Rwandan rebel soldiers and regular Congolese army troops in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
Disgrasian | Posted 03.16.2009 | Media
It sounds a helluva lot like Tila Tequila believes in censorship. Of the very same medium that made her, which, frankly, we find shockingly ungrateful.
Gina Nahai | Posted 01.14.2009 | Business
At the same time universities claim to be the guardians of knowledge, they treat their faculty to the legal and financial equivalent of what migrant day laborers earn by standing outside Home Depot.
Stephen C. Rose | Posted 01.14.2009 | Living
The Religion Code is a little piece I did a while back to flag the shameful pandering of mass media in dealing with Christian themes. Religion in itse...
David Henry Sterry | Posted 12.09.2008 | Politics
The bottom line, economically, is that there is a big beautiful sexy cash cow to be milked here.
Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 10.27.2008 | Style
Make no mistake about it, there is a violent resource war happening in Congo and a great wall of silence has been erected around it.
Martin Lewis | Posted 10.05.2008 | Politics
"Now it's your turn..." (with props to Neil Innes)...
Elise Garvey | Posted 10.22.2009 | Impact