I went back to Pakistan, for the first time in seven years. After I landed I went to the money exchange. There I was handed a big bundle of Pakistani rupees, for merely five hundred U.S. dollars. I realized that I would have no problem having a comfortable two-week...
It’s been two years of Covid, and we all crossed the threshold of exhaustion a long time ago. We’ve been longing so badly for the moment when we can go back to normal that we almost believed it was all over when we got our second shot. After two years of having to...
As Johns Hopkins University (JHU) is finishing its second week of the current semester, it has recorded 159 positive COVID cases among the student body, as compared to 29 cases in the first two weeks of the last semester. Many things are different between this...
The following video report was put out by the New York Times. It is a rare piece of journalism that shares the voices and concerns of nurses working throughout the pandemic, and clearly shows that the greed of for-profit hospitals is the primary cause of the...
We can all agree that fast food is not good for our physical health. But what about the health of those making and serving the food? Fast food is cheap and quick, but what do workers have to go through in order to keep things fast and cheap? Well, here’s my account of...
