Chris Hedges: Sammy Goes to School
By Chris Hedges / Original to ScheerPost Newark, N.J. — We know the story. The absent father who leaves when his son is five-years-old and moves back to Puerto Rico.…
Public Universities Run on Underpaid Labor. Now Grad Workers Are Fighting Back.
From Temple University to Rutgers, the devaluation of academic labor has its roots in decades of neoliberalism.
College Degrees Help Incarcerated People Take the Next Step to Freedom
Since 2013, the New Jersey Scholarship and Transformative Education in Prisons initiative, or NJ-STEP, has helped hundreds of individuals earn degrees. What’s next for the program?
The Understated Effects of Nuclear War on the World
By Diego Ramos / Original to ScheerPost With nuclear war becoming a growing concern in the world, scientists, in an authoritative study published by Nature Food, dug deeper into the…
The Chris Hedges Report: The Long Road Home (Part 2)
In the second of the two-part series The Long Road Home, we learn how five former prisoners have reentered society after spending a collective 119 years locked up.
The Chris Hedges Report: The Long Road Home (Part 1)
This episode is the first of a two-part series called "The Long Road Home," looking at the hurdles placed before those those who leave prison and struggle to reenter society.