Tucked away in the Sierra de Guadarrama mountains northwest of Madrid lies a monumental reminder of Europe’s authoritarian past: el Valle de los Caídos, or the Valley of the Fallen. The site consists of a Benedictine monastery at the crest of a mo...
Pieter Brower
Pieter Brower '18 is a Public Policy and Hispanic Studies concentrator. He currently serves as a Managing Editor and BPR, and was formerly the Associate Content Director.
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Tucked away in the Sierra de Guadarrama mountains northwest of Madrid lies a monumental reminder of Europe’s authoritarian past: el Valle de los Caídos, or the Valley of the Fallen. The site consists of a Benedictine monastery at the crest of a mo...
Pieter Brower
Pieter Brower
If, like Ludwig Wittgenstein, you believe that “the limits of my language are the limits of my world,” then your world is getting smaller. Experts estimate that over half of the six to seven thousand spoken languages will become extinct by the ye...
Pieter Brower
Pieter Brower
If, like Ludwig Wittgenstein, you believe that “the limits of my language are the limits of my world,” then your world is getting smaller. Experts estimate that over half of the six to seven thousand spoken languages will become extinct by the ye...
Pieter Brower
Pieter Brower
Between emergency repair work at Penn Station and constant delays on an aging and overcrowded subway system, New York City commuters just survived one of the worst summers in recent memory. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo declared a state of emergency...
Pieter Brower
Pieter Brower
Between emergency repair work at Penn Station and constant delays on an aging and overcrowded subway system, New York City commuters just survived one of the worst summers in recent memory. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo declared a state of emergency...
Pieter Brower
Pieter Brower
On New Year’s Day, New York’s celebrated Second Avenue Subway opened to great fanfare, concluding a tortured, century-long history of false starts and continually altered deadlines. First proposed in the 1920s, the project languished for decades ...
Pieter Brower
Pieter Brower
On New Year’s Day, New York’s celebrated Second Avenue Subway opened to great fanfare, concluding a tortured, century-long history of false starts and continually altered deadlines. First proposed in the 1920s, the project languished for decades ...
Pieter Brower
Pieter Brower
Four years ago, a mass demonstration in Barcelona to celebrate La Diada, Cataluña’s national holiday, triggered the latest in a long line of efforts to kick-start a serious move for Catalán independence. While a 2014 referendum in favor of indepe...
Pieter Brower
Pieter Brower
Four years ago, a mass demonstration in Barcelona to celebrate La Diada, Cataluña’s national holiday, triggered the latest in a long line of efforts to kick-start a serious move for Catalán independence. While a 2014 referendum in favor of indepe...
Pieter Brower
Pieter Brower
Despite winning the last two presidential elections, Democrats are in serious trouble at just about every other level of government. Currently, Republicans control both chambers in 30 state legislatures – the most since the 1920s – while Democrat...
Pieter Brower
Pieter Brower
Despite winning the last two presidential elections, Democrats are in serious trouble at just about every other level of government. Currently, Republicans control both chambers in 30 state legislatures – the most since the 1920s – while Democrat...
Pieter Brower
Pieter Brower
From driving tests to downtown, parking is the bane of drivers young and old. Limited parking is an accepted and unavoidable fact of life in most metropolitan areas, but wrongly so. Around the nation, a transportation crisis stems from a surplus of p...
Pieter Brower
Pieter Brower
From driving tests to downtown, parking is the bane of drivers young and old. Limited parking is an accepted and unavoidable fact of life in most metropolitan areas, but wrongly so. Around the nation, a transportation crisis stems from a surplus of p...
Pieter Brower
Pieter Brower
Pleading with your neighborhood Uber driver to let you and your nine drunk friends into the back of their Honda Civic may soon be a thing of the past. With the stratospheric rise of Uber and its competitors has come a new form of urban transportation...
Pieter Brower
Pieter Brower
Pleading with your neighborhood Uber driver to let you and your nine drunk friends into the back of their Honda Civic may soon be a thing of the past. With the stratospheric rise of Uber and its competitors has come a new form of urban transportation...
Pieter Brower
Pieter Brower
Voting for Justice Story by Alex Floyd In 2009, judicial elections came under assault when the Supreme Court ruled in Caperton v. Massey that West Virginia Supreme Court Justice Brent Benjamin had to recuse himself from a case involving one of his el...
Voting for Justice Story by Alex Floyd In 2009, judicial elections came under assault when the Supreme Court ruled in Caperton v. Massey that West Virginia Supreme Court Justice Brent Benjamin had to recuse himself from a case involving one of his el...
In January, two former University of North Carolina athletes filed a class-action lawsuit against the school and the NCAA. According to the complaint, the university and the NCAA had failed to “safeguard and provide a meaningful education to schola...
Pieter Brower
Pieter Brower
In January, two former University of North Carolina athletes filed a class-action lawsuit against the school and the NCAA. According to the complaint, the university and the NCAA had failed to “safeguard and provide a meaningful education to schola...
Pieter Brower
Pieter Brower
The New York Marriage Equality Act of 2011 promised that same-sex marriages and opposite-sex marriages would be treated the same in all respects of the law, allowing people like Jann Paczkowski to finally marry their partners. Most narratives surroun...
Pieter Brower
Pieter Brower
The New York Marriage Equality Act of 2011 promised that same-sex marriages and opposite-sex marriages would be treated the same in all respects of the law, allowing people like Jann Paczkowski to finally marry their partners. Most narratives surroun...
Pieter Brower
Pieter Brower
During rush hour on August 1, 2007, the Interstate 35-W bridge in Minneapolis, Minnesota suddenly collapsed, sending 111 vehicles plunging into the Mississippi River below. 13 people died and 145 were injured in the catastrophe. Although disasters li...
Pieter Brower
Pieter Brower
During rush hour on August 1, 2007, the Interstate 35-W bridge in Minneapolis, Minnesota suddenly collapsed, sending 111 vehicles plunging into the Mississippi River below. 13 people died and 145 were injured in the catastrophe. Although disasters li...
Pieter Brower
Pieter Brower