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 ...

The shift to the Latin script was arguably a pragmatic decision—aligning Azerbaijan with other Turkic nations that had adopted the Latin alphabet (such as Turkish, Uzbek, and Turkmen, with ongoing ...

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 ...

Programs funded by ESSER had a significant positive impact on learning. Two recent studies found that each $1,000 increase in per pupil funding led to about 3 percent grade level gains in math and ...

Josh Pacewicz is an Associate Professor of Sociology and Urban Studies at Brown University. His research examines the creation of the American state and subnational governance, particularly the ...

US Senator Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) is Michigan’s newly elected junior senator. After serving three successive terms representing Michigan’s 7th and 8th Congressional districts, she outperformed Kamala ...

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 ...

In 2015, El Salvador presided as the “ murder capital of the world ” with the highest number of homicides per capita; today, it is one of the safest countries in Latin America, with a homicide rate ...

In early 2025, California faced a series of devastating wildfires that ravaged vast areas of the state—particularly its southern regions. Two weeks after the fires broke out in Los Angeles, President ...

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 ...

Public policy attempts to reduce tobacco use have met varying degrees of success. In 2019, Sweden became the only country in Europe to ban smoking in the outdoor seating areas of bars and restaurants.

Despite multiple colonial erasure efforts, there are over 4,000 different Indigenous languages spoken worldwide. Indigenous peoples have tirelessly fought to maintain their languages as a core part of ...