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Sex and the Super Bowl: How America Compares to the Rest of the World in Preventing Human Trafficking at Major Sports Events
What is currently done to address sex trafficking at major American sports events and how do these measures compare to other nations? How can these approaches be adapted to more effectively address and prevent the issue of sex trafficking? Sex trafficking is the second most lucrative crime business worldwide. While it is extremely difficult to…
Excremental Colonialism
After their loss in the Spanish-American War, Spain ceded multiple territories to the United States, including Puerto Rice, Guam, and the Philippines. The Philippines remained under American control until 1935. During their colonial rule, the Americans suppressed numerous native insurgencies. In his piece on Excremental Colonialism, Warwick Anderson discusses one of the major tools of…
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