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How history and news can work together

I’m breaking my own rule. Until recently I’d sworn off subscribing to magazines because too often they pile up in a corner unread and mock me. But I’ve decided to subscribe to Lapham’s Quarterly. Partly because it’s a quarterly and I reckon I can handle four issues a year. Partly because the magazine’s sturdy enough [...]
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Value of slave trade

Total value of the current global slave trade (think women and girls enslaved into prostitution in a city/country near you) = US$31 billion. Source: Lapham’s Quarterly Volume II, Number 2
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