Steven Brown has dedicated more than three decades to serving as the executive director of the Rhode Island affiliate of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). Prior to his long tenure in Rhode ...

What a privilege it is to hate. To roil in anger or resentment. What satisfaction it brings us to share our ire with others and hear it echoed or reaffirmed. We feel validated—vindicated even—and, ...

Fall 2025 Issue 1 Pitch Call Will Open in September Do you want to have your writing featured in Brown University’s premier nonpartisan magazine for political journalism? Pitch to the Brown Political ...

Jennifer Nuzzo, director of the Pandemic Center and Professor of Epidemiology at Brown University, reviews depictions of epidemics in Twilight (2008), The Last of Us (2023), Outbreak (1995), and ...

The BPR High School Program invites student writers from Providence-area public schools to research, draft, and edit a college-level opinion article over the course of a semester. Rai Flynn is a ...

Journalists, academic institutions, foreign governments, and global organizations face a question: Will they silently accept this name change, or will they push back against Beijing’s erasure of ...

Greenland is an island mired in inconsistencies and ironies. It is named after a color, yet its tundra is a bleak white. It is the largest island in the world, a landmass three times the size of Texas ...

The Indian state’s manipulation of social media platforms was also particularly evident during the height of the 2020-2021 Indian Farmers’ Protests. The backlash began when the BJP, in an attempt to ...

Environmental conservation initiatives have become synonymous with the left, but it has not always been this way. In the 20th century, American presidents from both sides of the aisle favored ...

Fifty years ago, on April 13, 1975, the Lebanese Civil War officially began. The war devastated Lebanon’s economy, infrastructure, and social structure, and culminated in a sectarian model of ...

On March 15, 2025, over 100,000 demonstrators gathered around Republic Square in Belgrade, Serbia, to protest government corruption facilitated by President Aleksandar Vučić. The protest was just one ...

A world-renowned moral and political philosopher, T. M. Scanlon spent over 35 years at Harvard (and before that, 18 years at Princeton) as a scholar, teacher, and writer dedicated to addressing some ...