Fall 2024

In 1935 it was discovered that roughly seven hundred workers had died after drilling tunnels for the Union Carbide corporation at Gauley Bridge, West Virginia. Congressional investigations revealed that hundreds of these workers had been buried outside the tunnels, in …

The headlines of the nation’s newspapers, from New York to Washington to Los Angeles, blare out the same message: “D.C. Foster Care Workers Tell of Horrors,” “Foster Care System Reeling,” “Troubled Children Flood Ill-Prepared Foster Care System.” The nation’s foster-care …