Agriculture, the service economy, sexual exploitation, manufacturing, construction and domestic work drive today's enslavement around the world.
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Politicians Ingore Poverty – Because Half of Congress Are Millionaires
For the first time, more than half of the members of Congress are millionaires. Maybe the country would be better off if they had some first-hand encounters with need.
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If a Drone Strike Hit an American Wedding, We'd Ground Our Fleet
But after a dozen or more deaths at a Yemeni wedding, don't expect anything to change.
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Why the Rich Don't Give to Charity
Last year, not one of the top 50 individual charitable gifts went to a social-service organization or charity that principally serves the poor and the dispossessed.
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Tunisian Woman Sent to a Psychiatric Hospital for Posting Topless Photos on Facebook
Amina, a 19-year-old who hoped to join the radical protest group Femen, is also threatened with death by stoning.
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School Segregation Flourishes in Mississippi
Increasing numbers of poor minority students across the country will be forced to attend under-resourced schools if segregation continues to deepen.
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NYC Fast Food Workers Strike, Attempt to Unionize
Fast-food workers at several restaurants in New York walked off the job Thursday, firing the first salvo in the biggest effort to unionize fast-food workers ever undertaken in the United States.
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How Conservative Media Lost America
Nate Silver was right. His ideological antagonists were wrong. And that's just the beginning of the right's self-created information disadvantage.
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No One in America Should Have to Wait 7 Hours to Vote
What's happening at polling stations in Ohio and Florida isn't some fluke of nature or breakdown in equipment. It's all part of a partisan design.
