Margaret “Midge” Purce is a professional soccer player for NJ/NY Gotham FC with 30 caps for the US Women’s National Team (USWNT), as well as an outspoken advocate for gender equality, equal pay, and equal opportunity for women and girls in spor...
Miguel Sanchez is the Majority Whip of the Providence City Council from Ward 6 and an outspoken activist for Palestinian freedoms. In October 2023, Sanchez was fired from his position in Governor Daniel McKee’s office after protesting Israel’s ac...
Gloria Gilbert Stoga is the founder of Puppies Behind Bars (PBB), a Manhattan-based organization that partners puppies with incarcerated individuals. These individuals will train and raise the puppies to serve as bomb-sniffers, veteran servicers, and...
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...
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...
In 2018, 2,435 Rhode Islanders received an in-state abortion and 382 others came from another state to receive an abortion in Rhode Island. Demand and numbers for abortions in the smallest state of the nation would seem to indicate fair abortion laws...
In 2018, 2,435 Rhode Islanders received an in-state abortion and 382 others came from another state to receive an abortion in Rhode Island. Demand and numbers for abortions in the smallest state of the nation would seem to indicate fair abortion laws...
Several Republican politicians have recently made a point of mocking Vice President Kamala Harris’ name. At his mid-October rally, former Georgia Senator David Perdue, at the time in a runoff election with Jon Ossoff, intentionally mispronounced th...
Several Republican politicians have recently made a point of mocking Vice President Kamala Harris’ name. At his mid-October rally, former Georgia Senator David Perdue, at the time in a runoff election with Jon Ossoff, intentionally mispronounced th...
Image courtesy of Brown 250+ Timeline & John Carter Brown Library. A Note From the Editors This year, as part of Brown University’s celebration of its 250 years of institutional excellence, the Brown Political Review (BPR) is documenting th...
Image courtesy of Brown 250+ Timeline & John Carter Brown Library. A Note From the Editors This year, as part of Brown University’s celebration of its 250 years of institutional excellence, the Brown Political Review (BPR) is documenting th...
By Samuel Rubinstein As any applicant to Brown can tell you, the New Curriculum has become the heart and soul of the University since the program’s inception in 1969. Its chief architect, however, may be even more remarkable. Ira Magaziner ’69 ha...
By Samuel Rubinstein As any applicant to Brown can tell you, the New Curriculum has become the heart and soul of the University since the program’s inception in 1969. Its chief architect, however, may be even more remarkable. Ira Magaziner ’69 ha...
By Perla Montas and Meghan Sullivan “Ten Reasons Why Reparations for Blacks is a Bad Idea for Blacks — and Racist Too.” This title headlined David Horowitz’s full-page anti-reparations advertisement, printed in the Brown Daily Herald (BDH) on...
By Perla Montas and Meghan Sullivan “Ten Reasons Why Reparations for Blacks is a Bad Idea for Blacks — and Racist Too.” This title headlined David Horowitz’s full-page anti-reparations advertisement, printed in the Brown Daily Herald (BDH) on...
By Eli Motycka It was by 19th century candlelight, in then-President Elisha Andrews’ office after nightfall, that the first women were educated at Brown University. The movement that started with six high-achieving local high school students, bro...
By Eli Motycka It was by 19th century candlelight, in then-President Elisha Andrews’ office after nightfall, that the first women were educated at Brown University. The movement that started with six high-achieving local high school students, bro...
By Alex Lloyd George March 1933 had been a fairly quiet month for members of the Brown University community and its daily paper, the Brown Daily Herald (BDH). If one topic had held the student body in rapture, it was the impending legalization of bee...
By Alex Lloyd George March 1933 had been a fairly quiet month for members of the Brown University community and its daily paper, the Brown Daily Herald (BDH). If one topic had held the student body in rapture, it was the impending legalization of bee...
By Benjamin Koatz Just over a year before Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination, Charles Baldwin, the chaplain at Brown University from 1958 to 1990, wrote him a letter concerning King’s planned Sunday morning sermon at Brown. Baldwin wrote ...
By Benjamin Koatz Just over a year before Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination, Charles Baldwin, the chaplain at Brown University from 1958 to 1990, wrote him a letter concerning King’s planned Sunday morning sermon at Brown. Baldwin wrote ...
By David Chy “Brown University’s long silence can only be considered our approval,” student leaders cried. This sentiment was widely held on campus by those who believed that the University could not ignore the controversy of the Vietnam Wa...
By David Chy “Brown University’s long silence can only be considered our approval,” student leaders cried. This sentiment was widely held on campus by those who believed that the University could not ignore the controversy of the Vietnam Wa...
By Nikhita Mendis & Luke O’Connell As the LGBTQ liberation movement gains attention across the country, Brown remains a longtime cradle of progressive queer rights. Brown students’ struggles for equality for these groups have resulted in ...
By Nikhita Mendis & Luke O’Connell As the LGBTQ liberation movement gains attention across the country, Brown remains a longtime cradle of progressive queer rights. Brown students’ struggles for equality for these groups have resulted in ...
By Sara Erkal & Paula Martinez Gutierrez Twenty-four years ago, in 1990, Dean of Student Life John Robinson organized an open forum to discuss the issue of sexual assault. “Your outrage at the administration is justified,” he told the studen...
By Sara Erkal & Paula Martinez Gutierrez Twenty-four years ago, in 1990, Dean of Student Life John Robinson organized an open forum to discuss the issue of sexual assault. “Your outrage at the administration is justified,” he told the studen...