School bus drivers amid the pandemic: Strains, shortages, and strikes

December 13, 2021

It is the general consensus among the American public that children belong at school. The benefits are seemingly endless: receiving an education, being safe and protected, and acquiring the skills necessary for success and prosperity in the future. Yet so often is it taken for granted that children are able to get to school at all; so ingrained is it in the routines of most American school children and their families that the bus will pick them up from their streetcorner in the morning, deposit them at school, and drop them home again in the afternoon. But what are the benefits for the bus drivers?

COVID-19: Unhoused and Unprotected

April 26, 2021

When the COVID-19 pandemic spread to the United States in the early spring of 2020, a panic swept the nation even faster than the disease itself. In a frenzy, people bought out the cleaning supply sections of stores, stocked up on masks, and hunkered down in their homes to protect themselves and their families and wait out the virus. Yet, for the nation’s unhoused population, safely hiding away from the virus inside their homes was not an option.

Anti-semitism present during the January sixth Insurrection

April 23, 2021

The insurrection struck fear in many Americans for our future, and made us wonder: how could something like this happen on the grounds of our Capitol? The very embodiment of our democracy

Why Are Farmers in India Protesting?

April 19, 2021

Since late 2020, farmers in Punjab, India, have been taking part in one of the largest organized protests in history.