Peonage, also called debt slavery or debt servitude, is a system where an employer compels a worker to pay off a debt with work. Legally, peonage was outlawed by Congress in 1867. However, after ...

Sitting on a picnic blanket in Hong Kong’s Victoria Park with fellow Indonesian domestic workers on a Sunday in October, 34-year-old Arida is holding back tears. Moneylenders have demanded she turn ...

Last Monday, a federal judge requested briefing on whether the Thirteenth Amendment protects a right to abortion. This raised a few eyebrows. The Thirteenth Amendment, ratified in 1865, says nothing ...

As the struggle for a woman’s right to govern her own body moves from the federal to the state level, anguish and anger persist — but the argument needs to change. This strong constitutional basis for ...