Of Human Bondage
The plantation might be gone, but slavery lives on in the U.S.
Modern day slavery, also known as human trafficking, is alive and well. It happens in war-torn Africa, where 9-year-old kids carry semi-automatic weapons after their parents sell them into the military in order to raise money to feed their other starving children. It happens when criminal gangs kidnap underage girls and women to keep fresh faces in the brothels in the sex tourism industry in Thailand. And it happens in Toledo, Columbus and Cincinnati, taking the form of forced prostitution and domestic servitude.

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Savage Love - New columns, archives and feedback

The Straight Dope - Fighting ignorance since 1973

Worst Week Ever - Another Seven Days... of artificial sunlight, fighting over rocks and making public art

Living Out Loud: Sit or Spin III - Troublemaking at the laundromat

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Sports - Reds Will Be Served (Some Day) by Their Youth

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