Julieta González Moreno has spent more than a year trying to do something that should be simple: sell food from her cart, “Antojitos Mexicanos,” on the streets of East Las Vegas, make a living, and feed her family. She did everything the system asked of her. She went through the long, confusing process of getting a street vending license from Clark County, paid her fees, waited months for approvals, and finally held the documents that were supposed to make her legitimate. And yet, she still cannot find peace on the streets. Almost every week, she says, police approach her and…

There is a particular kind of dissonance that settles over Edinburgh’s Old College when the chanting starts. The grand neoclassical courtyard, with its hushed corridors and portraits of long-dead scholars, seems an unlikely backdrop for industrial picket lines. Yet that is exactly where the university found itself on the day Sir Peter Mathieson chose to announce he would not seek a third term as principal and vice-chancellor. Outside, students and striking staff were making their feelings known, their voices rising in unison against a wave of cuts that has already reshaped the institution. Inside, Mathieson sat before the University Court,…