Noah Berlatsky is a Chicago-based writer whose work appears in The Atlantic, The Chicago Reader, and other outlets. He is the author of Corruption: American Political Films and blogs at The Hooded Utilitarian.
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How Netflix's New Daredevil Series Makes Torture Into a Virtue
The superhero show celebrates the violent interrogations inflicted by its main character.
The Misguided War on Sexting
America is taking a punitive approach to teens who send each other explicit messages-and it's backfiring.
Sex-Trafficking Victims Hurt Most by Senator's Crusade Against Classified Ads
Closing sites like Backpage.com puts trafficking victims at even more risk.
The Historic Roots of Homan Square, Chicago's CIA-Style Black Site
The Chicago Police Department didn't need the War on Terror to teach it to violate civil rights.
Concrete Consequences From Sex Work Stigma
Criminalization really isn't the root of the problem that sex workers face.
Pixelated Prostitution: Feminist Debate Over Sex Work Bleeds Into Video Games
Why sex workers have criticized the way feminist Anita Sarkeesian talks about women's agency
Crazy U.K. Copyright Laws Suppress WWI Soldiers' Letters, Other Historical Documents
How the U.S. and Britain can learn from each other to make unpublished and orphaned works available to the public.
Lets Not Import Canada's Sex Work Bill
Canada's new proposals criminalize johns, while decriminalizing those engaged in prostitution.
How Internet Activism Helps Sex Workers
Marginalized groups seek justice, community, and self-help online.
Black Women Profiled as Prostitutes in NYC
A new report from the Red Umbrella Project makes clear that NYPD profiling isn't only focused on men.
Giving Teachers Freedom
Teachers know their classrooms better than administrators do. Why don't they have more power to act on that knowledge?
Voices from Afghanistan
Without intending to, Peter Eichstadt makes the case for getting out of Afghanistan.
Power in a Same-Sex Union
How the fight for gay marriage transformed the gay rights movement.
The White Goat's Burden
New Age hippie idealism meets can-do army spirit in The Men Who Stare At Goats
