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Educators Warn Against Child Labor Rollbacks

By Brenda Álvarez When students at Brunswick High School’s alternative education program begin missing class, Rie Larson knows it’s time to ask questions. “Sometimes when we start to notice a student’s drop in attendance, and…


Young Activists Need Civics

Black youth believe in their ability to make change, but our schools aren’t helping them Commentary by Rashid Duroseau and Andrew Wilkes When Black youth appear in public conversations about civics, it’s usually in the…


VCU Backs Down on Speech Suppression

Commentary by Brian Palmer Sereen Haddad, a Virginia Commonwealth University psychology major, won a major battle against her school in July. But the war she’s fighting is far from over. Haddad’s victory came on July…


Censorship at Harvard

Scholars slam canceling of Harvard journal issue on Palestine By Jessica Corbett As Israel continues its U.S.-backed annihilation of the Gaza Strip and Harvard University weighs a deal with the Trump administration, the Ivy League…


A Scholarship for Student Activists

Founded in 1961 by Horace B. (“Hockey”) Davis as a memorial to his wife, Marian, a teacher and political activist who had died of breast cancer the previous year, the Davis-Putter Scholarship Fund has awarded…


Armed Responses Meet Student Protests in Uganda

By Nakisanze Segawa KAMPALA, UGANDA — In April, dozens of students gathered at the Kyambogo University’s student center. The then-student council president, Akiso Benjamin, called the meeting to address growing frustrations with the university’s ad­ministration…


What We Could Learn from Serbia

Commentary by Roo Luo, MAIPD ’25 People swarmed from every direction. They flooded the streets of the Serbian capital, Bel­grade, flags on their shoulders, emblems raised high toward windowsills and beyond. Their rhythmic chants of…


‘Alligator Alcatraz’ Must Close

But the fight isn’t over By Miacel Spotted Elk The Miccosukee Tribe makes its home in the Florida Ever­glades, where a tribal village sits only a few miles from the federal immigration detention center called…


USC Hotline Helps Move Hearings Online

By Sophie Sullivan A group of volunteers based out of a USC Dornsife program established a free hotline to help those with in-person immigration hearings file motions to move their appointments online. The service is…


The Real Reason the West Is Warmongering

Against China By Jason Hickel and Dylan Sullivan Over the past two decades, the posture of the United States towards China has evolved from economic cooperation to outright antagonism. US media outlets and politicians have…