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Social Issues

Buying and selling humans

An estimated 50 thousand women and children are sold to people in the United States each year. The worldwide problem of human trafficking still can be addressed by individual states, according to Midmorning's guest.

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Finding Home: Fifty Years of International Adoption

In the past decade, the number of foreign children adopted by Americans has nearly tripled to more than 20,000 a year. But international adoption first started exploding half a century ago. "Finding Home" explores how adoption has changed over the last 50 years.

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Warroad Ojibwe want federal recognition

A group of Ojibwe Indians who have lived in and around Warroad for centuries is not recognized by the U.S. government. Now, the Warroad Ojibwe community is beginning the long and daunting task of seeking that federal acknowledgment.

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The true story behind "North Country"

The new Charlize Theron movie "North Country" opens Friday. It tells the true story of sexual harassment in the iron mines of Northern Minnesota. The American RadioWorks documentary "No Place for a Woman" explains that the women miners broke new legal ground, and helped change the workplace forever.

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So help me

The history of good Samaritans reveals surprising problems with an act that defines the best of human nature.

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Is God a conservative?

Rabbi Harold Kushner talks about why a conservative approach to religion is gaining popularity.

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White-collar blues

Barbara Ehrenreich's "Nickel and Dimed" explored the lives of low-wage workers. Now, in "Bait and Switch," the best-selling author enters another hidden realm of the American economy: the world of the white-collar unemployed. Barbara Ehrenreich joined host Kerri Miller for Minnesota Public Radio's Broadcast Journalist Series. Midmorning showcases their conversation, which was recorded at Macalester College on September 29.

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'North Country' premieres on the Iron Range

People who watched a preview screening of "North Country" Friday night gave the movie an enthusiastic thumbs up. About 500 people were invited. Most were extras and others who helped when the movie was shot on the Iron Range last winter.

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One woman's struggle to pay for the heat

Many Minnesotans will feel the sting of rising natural gas prices this winter. For those with no flexibility in their budget, heating assistance money is the only thing keeping them from financial ruin.

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Commentator Jonathan Odell: How the races don't relate

The aftermath of Hurricane Katrina laid bare the racial tensions that always seem to lie just below the surface. Commentator Jonathan Odell has been thinking about race relations, and just how little the races actually relate. Odell, a native of Mississippi, lives in Minneapolis. He is the author of "The View from Delphi," which explores racial tensions in the South before the civil rights movement.

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