What do a French businessman who travels to Spain for work each day, a farm laborer from Morocco who travels to Spain to work during the harvest season, and a woman from Sri Lanka who works as a nanny for a middle-class family in Spain all have in common? They are circular migrants. The European […]
“Of all our dreams today, there is none more important — or so hard to realize — than that of peace in the world.” — Lester B. Pearson, former Prime Minister of Canada and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. How do you balance that dream — peace in the world — with the reality […]
Squat brown brick exterior, flat roof, small parking lot filled with teacher’s cars, a flagpole with a waving American flag grounded outside large, and a mid-sized marquee sign announcing that Jana Elementary School is hosting parent teacher conferences in October. It looks like every other suburban elementary school across the nation. Except for one thing […]
On January 24, 2024, Missouri Governor Mike Parson gave his final State of the State address. Parson became governor in 2018 in the wake of Eric Greitens’s resignation amidst various scandals and won reelection in 2020. Now Parson is ending his time in office, as he will retire at the end of his term in […]
If you traveled back in time to August 14, 1935, and told someone that in our era, Social Security is one of the most important government programs and protecting it is a priority for both political parties, they probably would have been shocked and not believed you. Even though President Franklin D. Roosevelt had just […]