Why Is Everyone So Willing to Believe 'Fake News' About Sex Trafficking?
"It's like we lack enough empathy to understand the choices of others, and therefore deprive them of agency."
"It's like we lack enough empathy to understand the choices of others, and therefore deprive them of agency."
Former NYPD officer Michael Rizzi is accused of running an upscale prostitution service and its 50 related websites.
Porn performers are accusing Rashida Jones and other Hot Girls Wanted: Turned On producers of a host of unethical and exploitative practices.
The failure of consensus nutrition "science" and the ongoing collapse of dietary puritanism.
Many of our intractable policy disputes are little more than rumbles between battling political tribes.
Expensive calorie count mandate set to begin on May 5. Is delay or repeal possible?
City with highest cost per pack also has highest bootlegging rate. Imagine that.
Enlisting the support of pseudo-science and local law enforcement along the way.
The 2nd Circuit says the recommended prison term was "substantively unreasonable."
The judge thinks committing a crime and looking at pictures of it are basically the same thing.
State lawmakers say porn is a public health crisis that causes rape and sex trafficking-but watch all you want as long as the state gets a cut.
Kansas CPS said Anthony Long was to stay far away from then 16-year-old Hope Zeferjohn. He didn't listen. Now she's being treated as his accomplice.
Police say she was "acting on her own" and "not a victim of human trafficking."
Investigators say an administrative assistant with the Public Safety Department pocketed cash payments from adult entertainers and fudged records to cover for it.
A wave of new technologies is making it easier for us all to flip the bird to regulators and prohibitionists.
A bill related to sex trafficking and Section 230 could have far-reaching consequences for web content, publishers, and apps.
All sorts of normal behavior are now triggering financial surveillance as banks try to comply with confused government policies on human trafficking.
New historical sex drama comes to Hulu.
The House of Delegates passes a measure that could hobble brewers.
A subpoena calls for copies of all Backpage ads posted over several years, all billing records, and the identities of all of the website's users.
The fear and disgust triggered by this subject help explain why laws dealing with sex offenses involving minors frequently lead to bizarre results.
Minnesota becomes the 39th state to allow Sunday liquor sales.
There may be "more rough sex" in today's pornography, but that's because the porn market is more diverse overall.
With sweeping "sex trafficking stings," the FBI returns to its roots as the nation's vice squad.
Can U.S. courts compel non-citizens to pay restitution to other non-citizens for crimes that took place abroad? Apparently so.
The DOJ won't reveal the source code for the software it used to identify Playpen visitors.
British citizens are asking their government to "make it illegal for a company to require women to wear high heels at work."
EU wine rules consider anything not authorized specifically to be illegal.
A new CEI paper argues that states should be free to decriminalize March Madness wagers.
If you want to vape, it has to taste terrible and cost full price.
No, there haven't been an "unprecedented" number of child sex-trafficking rings busted since Donald Trump took office.
Michigan lawmakers and the Twenty-First Amendment stink.
For some unlucky women, wiping a cop's semen from their massage-table may be one of the last things they do in this country.
How can Kutcher's group have helped in dramatically more sex-trafficking investigations than were actually opened across America?
Why do U.S. officials insist on obscuring them?
A viral tale of Alaska Airlines staff saving a sex-trafficked teen turns out to be propaganda for federal immigration enforcement.
Why is government mad? The kids were sent by cops to entrap him into selling them the beer.
Anti-alcohol activists are haunted by the ghost of the original party animal.
Where were all the Super Bowl 2017 sex-traffickers? Living only in activist and law-enforcement imaginations, it seems.
Attorney Robert Corn-Revere discusses the failed case against the "world's largest online brothel."
New report calls for Trump administration to make it easier for Americans to switch from smoking to vaping.