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Leaf it to the Farmers
When Americans are presented with the word “coca,” their mind likely jumps to cocaine. In fact, the two are often conflated as one and the same: a dangerous drug banned by law and whose production and...
Tongues Against Empire
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...
A Revolution Without a Roadmap
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...
Cast(e) in Stone
“At least 250 million people worldwide still face appalling and dehumanizing discrimination based on caste and similar systems of inherited status.” Caste is a system of inherited social hierarchy tha...
Culture
Soccer Offers a Shot at a Bigger Goal
Expanding opportunities for women’s soccer in the Middle East can serve as a powerful tool to improve women’s rights in the region.
Subverting Dominant Narratives about Early Christianity: An Interview with Georgia Frank
Georgia Frank is the Charles A. Dana Professor of Religion at Colgate University. She is a spec...
Singing Truth – BPR Interviews: Pauline Jean
Pauline Jean is an internationally acclaimed Haitian American singer, songwriter, and composer who h...
The Woke: The Elitist
The divide in America today — which we constantly see, hear, feel, and fear — is illustrated and per...
Arts & Entertainment
Sex, Death, and Other People’s Money – BPR Interviews: Copyslut
Copyslut is a band and artists’ collective who have been creating sex-magic, catharsis, and healing vibes since 2017. Also sex-positive sex educators, the band is led by Chatz of Love, an active sex-w...
Nail Salons: Polishing Over a Chipped Foundation
Anatomy of a nail salon: aromatic chemicals circulate in small rooms. Gleaming rows of nail polish b...
Those Were the Days – BPR Interviews: Norman Lear
Norman Lear is a writer, producer, and political activist best known for sitcoms All in the Family,...
BPR Interviews: Seal
Seal Henry Olusegun Olumide Adeola Samuel, best known by his mononym Seal, is a singer and songwrite...
The Woke: The Elitist
The divide in America today — which we constantly see, hear, feel, and fear — is illustrated and perpetuated in part through “PC culture”. PC (Politically Correct) culture refers to a trending social...
The Asthma Epidemic Isn’t Over
In recent years, the startling public health trend once dubbed “The Asthma Epidemic” has been tentatively leveling off. With fewer cases of asthma diagnosed overall relative to previous years, America...
Alexa, Am I Dying?
Amazon’s Alexa has reshaped how millions of American consumers live and behave at home. We might think of Alexa as that robot we yell at to set a timer, yet Amazon recently announced that it had...
Beyond Rain Main: Diversifying Autism On Screen
hile there is still a long way to go in terms of positive representation of autism in entertainment media, a select few fictional autistic personalities have achieved an impressive degree of Hollywood...