Last fall I led a research team at Brown’s Climate and Development Lab, which investigated 10 of the country’s largest investor-owned utilities. The report we produced was featured in The Atlantic shortly after its publication. Curiously, however...

A capitalist society gives up a lot in return for efficiency and cheap rates. In the food industry, the corporations that are able to produce and distribute quickly are often able to do so at a cheaper cost due to their ability to scale, but they sac...

*This interview is the second installment of Ask the Chief, a BPR interview series with police chiefs from around the country.   Murphy Paul is the Police Chief in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. With nearly three decades in law enforcement, he has...

In the United States, removing a sitting president is difficult by design. The Constitution provides only two mechanisms for this process: impeachment and the 25th Amendment. Given that the latter option requires cabinet officials to strip power from...

In this video, BPR Media speaks with community members involved in Asian American politics and academia to investigate the historical and ideological mechanisms behind low Asian American/Pacific Islander voter turnout and the widely held belief that ...

Just nine days after surviving domestic abuse so severe that she went into premature labor, Marissa Alexander was arrested and sentenced to 20 years in prison. Her offense? Firing a single warning shot into the ceiling during a confrontation with her...

Sarita Skagnes was born in a small village in Northern India as the third daughter in her family. Based on the perceived lack of honor and value that she brought to her family due to her gender, Skagnes’s parents exchanged her for a male cousin and...