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Published Articles by Doris Weatherford
Four Score and Seven Years Ago We Were At War With Ourselves
July 8, 2013
The news media did a pretty fair job of recognizing the 150th anniversary of the battle of Gettysburg last week, but the only attention to the other 150th that I saw was a small line in the syndicated “Today in History.” Read More
In Context: Sex Trafficking and the Age of Consent
July 1, 2013
When I wrote about sex trafficking earlier, I mentioned an article that Thalia Potter, legislative aide to Senator Pat Frank, showed me while I was lobbying for reform of rape law back in the 1980s. In the satirical piece, the author substituted “sex” or “rape” for “robbery” or “theft.” Read More