What’s the future of the anti-trafficking charity-celebrity complex, with both Ashton Kutcher and Tim Ballard out of their respective groups?

A new effort to investigate the crisis of missing and murdered Native Hawaiian women and girls also has to confront the role of law enforcement.

Mark Zuckerberg’s virtual world promises fun and creative opportunities for all—including a small universe of cybercriminals.

There’s no great conspiracy at play in the crises unfolding around the philanthropist and the congressman—just the banal myopias of power.

What we already know about the Florida congressman is plenty contemptible and corrosive without having to fall back on pernicious myths about sex trafficking.

A string of Trump-associated Republicans have recently faced charges related to the sexual exploitation of minors. It won’t matter to Q’s true believers.

The conspiracy theory has become a theology of right-wing rebellion.

Having declared victory in its war on Backpage and sex work, the liberal-conservative coalition has pivoted to porn.

Both are swimming in the same false claims and exaggerated campaigns.

Sex trafficking prosecution has been framed as a universal pursuit people can unite around, but that’s a fantasy.

Newspapers love a good “Feds take down sex trafficking” story, even if there are no sex traffickers actually taken down.

The bipartisan movement to “combat trafficking” was built on many of the same superficialities as the First Family, but everyone has their limit.

Crank ideas have always flourished in times of great instability and inequality.

D.C. just fixed its law. More than half of U.S. states still haven't.