The Nasty, Real World
This is a despicable health care bill, a stain on the soul of anyone who has worked on it, who supports it, who believes they have done anything right in birthing it. Nonetheless, it should be passed.
This is a despicable health care bill, a stain on the soul of anyone who has worked on it, who supports it, who believes they have done anything right in birthing it. Nonetheless, it should be passed.
Josie Ensor | Posted 12.19.2009 | World
It is not uncommon for many women working as maids throughout the Mideast to experience forced confinement, food deprivation, excessively long hours and even sexual abuse at the hands of their employers.
AP | ANABELLE GARAY | Posted 12.11.2009 | Home
DALLAS — She was a widow in a Nigerian village trying to raise six children when she says she met a man who told her he and his wife needed a na...
Posted 12.01.2009 | Impact
A video broadcasted Tuesday on CNN highlights the very real affects of America's underground slave trade. "Melissa" started off as a teen runaway and ...
AP | EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS | Posted 11.25.2009 | Books
JACKSON, Miss. — Gene Dattel grew up in the segregated South and was one of the few Mississippians enrolled at Yale University in 1962 when his ...
Jonathan Kim | Posted 12.07.2009 | Entertainment
What causes global poverty? Why do the countries of the northern hemisphere enjoy so much wealth while over a billion people in the southern hemispher...
Johann Hari | Posted 11.19.2009 | Politics
The institutions that are blocking progress have rallied over the past few months to defend two causes with very little popular support in the United States: rape and slavery. No, really.
AP | ALEXA OLESEN | Posted 11.15.2009 | Home
BEIJING — The conviction was clear but the message befuddling: China's Foreign Ministry spokesman was equating serfdom in Tibet to slavery in th...
Marcella Mroczkowski | Posted 11.12.2009 | Politics
Today's generation of managers goes to our best business schools not to learn to be builders, creators and healers but to be more clever and effective swindlers, gamblers and parasites.
Abigail Pesta | Posted 11.11.2009 | World
You think slavery went out with Abraham Lincoln? Ask my friend Sreypov Chan about that. When she was seven years old, her mom sold her into sexual slavery.
Susan Smalley, Ph.D. | Posted 11.06.2009 | Living
Nichlas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn's recent book "Half the Sky" is a call of awakening for all men and women to take action and right the wrongs existing in the world today because of gender inequality.
Lisa Conte | Posted 10.29.2009 | Business
One of the collateral benefits of working in the global health arena is being reminded that disease doesn't exist in isolation.
Dr. Alex Benzer | Posted 10.28.2009 | Living
In their lucid and levelheaded way, Kristof and WuDunn build a powerful moral case for fostering economic progress in the developing world by unleashing the potential of women.
Rani Hong | Posted 10.29.2009 | Impact
Child slaves are often the unseen hands holding up the economy of the nation, hidden in their places of bondage from the sight of the people buying the work of their labor.
Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 10.21.2009 | Politics
The modern day slave trade nearly equals the illicit drug and arms sale trade. Captives work in plants, factories, farms, hotels and restaurants and in prostitution and sex rings.
Alfred Gingold | Posted 10.19.2009 | New York
150 years after his raid on Harpers Ferry, John Brown looms ever larger in the national psyche, either a great martyr to a just and necessary cause, or our first domestic terrorist.
Marilia Duffles | Posted 10.15.2009 | Chicago
Leave it to a Wall Street Journal story this week about a Chicago alderman's opposition to Jimmy Andrews' Felony Franks -- a hot dog joint that hires ...
Peggy Callahan | Posted 10.13.2009 | Impact
I dreamed up the Freedom Awards because in Free the Slaves we insist that the people who are closest to slavery should be the leaders and spokespersons of the anti-slavery movement. Who better to tell the world that this is real slavery?
The New York Times | RACHEL L. SWARNS and JODI KANTOR | Posted 10.08.2009 | Politics
Melvinia Shields, the enslaved and illiterate young girl, and the unknown white man who impregnated her are the great-great-great-grandparents of Mich...
Robin Chase | Posted 10.06.2009 | Green
Ownership of another human being and reaping the benefit of their labor is repugnant. While burning fossil fuels is not as intimately observable or viscerally felt, there is a direct link from our actions to individual suffering.
The Morningside Post | Posted 11.21.2009 | World
More than 300,000 children are currently enslaved as restaveks in Haiti. They make up 3 percent of Haiti's population. More often than not they are emotionally and physically abused.
Michael B. Laskoff | Posted 11.20.2009 | Politics
Sometimes the body from which a political party springs is so filled with bile and corruption that its healthiest components should seek to go their own way. A case in point is today's Republican Party.
Russell Simmons | Posted 11.17.2009 | World
An estimated 27 million human beings worldwide today are living lives of exploitation. They are objects of ownership, forgotten as children in need of love, nurturing and protection.
Geralyn Dreyfous | Posted 11.10.2009 | World
In a summer focused on the health care, and the deaths of renowned politicians and celebrities, there was all too little attention on a government report released in June 2009 on global human trafficking.
Kenneth C. Davis | Posted 09.26.2009 | Politics
On this date in 1920, the 19th Amendment was ratified by the necessary two-thirds of the states and women were granted the right to vote. Somewhere Abigail Adams was smiling.
Stephen Gyllenhaal | Posted 12.19.2009 | Politics