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In Baltimore, "squeegeeing", or washing car windshields at stoplights for tips, has become a hot button political issue, with residents projecting their dismay about their city onto the teenagers who undertake this labor.

May 4, 1970 was a defining moment for a generation, when the optimism of the 60s was effectively ended as the National Guard opened fire on a group of student protestors, killing four. Fire in the Heartland explores and contextualizes this dark moment in U.S. history by giving voice to the students who were there.

Flash Wars explores disturbing global trends around A.I., seen by militaries and police departments around the Western world as a viable solution to ever diminishing recruitment numbers.

Amid the explosion of American unionization efforts in the 30s, independent steelworkers in Chicago went on strike for what we now consider to be basic labor rights: an 8-hour day, 40 hour workweek, and overtime pay. They were met with such force by Chicago Police, who had been armed by Republic Steel and asked to build a station at the mill, that ten workers were killed, and dozens more injured. But the police and mill hadn't counted on the fact that a camera person was there recording the whole thing.

The internet has come to be known as a largely free way to access information and form community. Yet the tech companies behind this ostensibly free service have become the highest -profiting corporations in history. How can that be?