Slavery has long been illegal in the United States, but people are still forced to work and have sex against their will. Law enforcement continues to work to crack down on human trafficking, but it's a long haul. Truckers are keeping their eyes out for people being trafficked; that's the focus of Truckers Against Trafficking . The program comes complete with a training program to make truckers more effective at spotting trafficking.

Bob Woodward, of Nixon-era fame, publishes a tell-all about President Donald Trump in his new book. The New York Times publishes its own tell-all in an op-ed written by an anonymous source working near the president. And Nike features an ad with Colin Kaepernick's face overlaid with text that reads: "Believe in something, even if it means sacrificing everything.” Sounds like another exciting month in the media business, up for discussion in our media segment, Signals & Noise. Our guests,

Nationalism is getting a bad name in parts of the world, especially in the United States, where it is often preceded by the world "white." Yoram Hazony will not defend that brand of nationalism, but he does see plenty to like in the impulse to defend independent states. He lays out the case in his book The Virtue of Nationalism , which sees the alternative a kind of globalist "universalism."

Fire season clearly still has a while to go, but it's never too early to talk about what happened this year, and why. A Smoke and Fire Summit is set for next weekend (Saturday, September 15th) at Southern Oregon University, to help people better understand the contributing factors to a destructive and smoky summer. We hear from Marko Bey of the Lomakatsi Restoration Project , and Don Ferguson, retired from a long career at the federal Bureau of Land Management working on wildland fires.

Notice all the colored folders next time you're at the doctor's office; many medical records are still stored on paper. But the industry has been pushing for years now toward more computerization, more use of electronic health records (EHR). It's taking time to convert, but one trend is clear: more IT workers in the health industry. William Hersh, MD and teacher of medical informatics at Oregon Health & Science University , tracks the trends in health record adoption.

You can find film festivals all over the country now, but few that focus on just films from and about Oregon. But that is the mission at the Klamath Independent Film Festival , lighting up screens in Klamath Falls the weekend of September 14-16. From features about imperiled horses ("Lean on Pete") to documentaries about the arts scene in the Klamath Basin itself ("Ragland"), there's a bunch to see.

The great explorers all had a whole lot of unknown in front of them. They had no idea what they'd find, and they came back with big surprises (think Charles Darwin, for one example). The mystery is mostly gone on an Earth now completely mapped. Or is it? Kate Harris once so despaired of no more undiscovered country that she wanted to move to Mars. But she found lots of unknown corners left on Earth. She found them by bicycle, a tale she tells in her book Lands of Lost Borders: A Journey on the

The back-to-the-land movement of the 1970s did a lot to populate the hills and hollers of our region. Thalia Truesdell was one of the people who came looking for a simpler way of life... she settled in Sawyer's Bar on the California side, buying some land there. Her experiences there and later in the Applegate Valley are the subject of this month's edition of Stories of Southern Oregon , curated by Maureen Flanagan Battistella for the Southern Oregon Digital Archive .

The number of women who report being sexually assaulted in America are surprising enough. But the numbers are shockingly high for Native American women. And the shock goes beyond sexual assault to murder and kidnap... these too happen at higher rates for native women than for the rest of the population. It's a situation with many contributing factors, all studied by Lisa Brunner, who co-directs the Indigenous Women's Human Rights Collective and teaches at White Earth Tribal and Community College

Mark Leibovich's normal beat for the New York Times Magazine is Washington, DC and presidential politics. But for the last four years he's also been shadowing the NFL, publishing profiles of the game's more controversial figures, like Patriots quarterback Tom Brady and the Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones. Leibovich says we've hit "peak football," and he sees the NFL's decline in the past few years as a metaphor for the country's political and cultural anxiety. His book is Big Game: The NFL in