MoveOn.org getting into the anti-Backpage game
Sent this Monday under the subject line, Village Voice: Stop child prostitution, MoveOn.org is now leaning on their lists to pressure Backpage off the internet. The email reads in part: Dear MoveOn...
View ArticleObama’s “New” Solutions to Trafficking: Jail, Jail, and “Legitimate” Markets
Well, that was frustrating. In an address today at Clinton Global Initiative 2012, President Obama gave his most elaborate policy position yet on trafficking, and used it as an opportunity to throw...
View ArticleNicholas Kristof: Half The Sky, All The Credit
by Anne Elizabeth Moore and Melissa Gira Grant Nick Kristof is a big fan of workplace evaluation for teachers—so we hope he won’t mind if we gather and share the following by way of conducting a...
View Article“Like” Feminism
I’ve got a piece out in the Washington Post, a commentary on Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg’s corporate feminism, on the eve of her book Lean In. I’ve been following Sandberg as one of the more visible...
View ArticleThe broad arm of the law
There’s no better way to wait for the Supreme Court to hand down a decision than watching another Supreme Court in action – which you can, if it’s the Supreme Court of Canada, who livestreamed...
View ArticleListen To Sex Workers – Who Don’t Exist!
I’ve written before about Equality Now (in Jacobin, and in Reason) – a humanitarian women’s rights NGO founded in part to eradicate sex work. One of their key tactics in this ostensibly feminist fight...
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