Brown University Professor Emeritus Peter Howitt, co-architect of the theory of sustained economic growth through creative destruction and co-recipient of the 2025 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, discusses the journey that led him from sorting wool...
The BPR High School Program invites student writers to research, draft, and edit a college-level opinion article over the course of a semester. Nina Suellentrop is a sophomore at East Greenwich High School. Fuzzy dolls with huge toothy grins have inv...
Anita McBride is a leading expert on first ladies and the White House. She sits on the White House Historical Association Board of Directors and leads the Legacies of America’s First Ladies Initiative at American University, where she is Executive ...
Lalla Essaydi’s photographic art depicting Arab women emerges from a simple yet powerful idea for the image: women, their clothing, their setting and an interaction. The photography series is a result of a project several months long. She chooses t...
Lalla Essaydi’s photographic art depicting Arab women emerges from a simple yet powerful idea for the image: women, their clothing, their setting and an interaction. The photography series is a result of a project several months long. She chooses t...
Over one year has passed since Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez passed away, leaving behind one of the richest and most beloved literary legacies of the 20th century. Already, different cultural institutions across Latin America and the worl...
Over one year has passed since Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez passed away, leaving behind one of the richest and most beloved literary legacies of the 20th century. Already, different cultural institutions across Latin America and the worl...
What do George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, Alexander Hamilton, Andrew Jackson, Ulysses S. Grant, Benjamin Franklin, and Franklin D. Roosevelt have in common? They are all founding fathers or former presidents; they are all featured...
What do George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, Alexander Hamilton, Andrew Jackson, Ulysses S. Grant, Benjamin Franklin, and Franklin D. Roosevelt have in common? They are all founding fathers or former presidents; they are all featured...
On March 31, the Shibuya ward in Tokyo became the first district in Japan to recognize same-sex marriage. The Shibuya district will now issue certificates to same-sex couples labeling their unions “equivalent to marriage.” The law is directed at ...
On March 31, the Shibuya ward in Tokyo became the first district in Japan to recognize same-sex marriage. The Shibuya district will now issue certificates to same-sex couples labeling their unions “equivalent to marriage.” The law is directed at ...
In Cuba, the journey to implement public music education has paralleled the country’s battle for compulsory education, and nationhood itself. The implementation of widespread education reform was a pillar of Fidel Castro’s plan for the nation, an...
In Cuba, the journey to implement public music education has paralleled the country’s battle for compulsory education, and nationhood itself. The implementation of widespread education reform was a pillar of Fidel Castro’s plan for the nation, an...
Saif-ul-Malook lives his life with two security guards and a constant fear of death. He receives threats daily and has spent weeks in the hospital due to anxiety related heart trouble. This fear is not unwarranted for the Pakistani lawyer, who defend...
Saif-ul-Malook lives his life with two security guards and a constant fear of death. He receives threats daily and has spent weeks in the hospital due to anxiety related heart trouble. This fear is not unwarranted for the Pakistani lawyer, who defend...
BuzzFeed brought some incredibly important journalism to the world this spring—they ran the numbers on how much money Joey owed Chandler on the hit sitcom Friends. Though the final tally of $114,260 is far-removed from reality, most things involvin...
BuzzFeed brought some incredibly important journalism to the world this spring—they ran the numbers on how much money Joey owed Chandler on the hit sitcom Friends. Though the final tally of $114,260 is far-removed from reality, most things involvin...
The battle over the derogatory term, Redskins, ballooned into a fight over freedom of speech last month when the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed an amicus siding with the Washington Redskins. The US Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) strip...
The battle over the derogatory term, Redskins, ballooned into a fight over freedom of speech last month when the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed an amicus siding with the Washington Redskins. The US Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) strip...
For the past few weeks, students at the University of Cape Town have been demonstrating in protest of the Cecil Rhodes statue situated front and center on the university’s campus since 1934. The statue overlooks the rugby fields and sits at the top...
For the past few weeks, students at the University of Cape Town have been demonstrating in protest of the Cecil Rhodes statue situated front and center on the university’s campus since 1934. The statue overlooks the rugby fields and sits at the top...
Two weeks ago, a student at Duke University hung a noose outside of the student commons building. Earlier in the month, two-dozen students at the University of Oklahoma fraternity Sigma Alpha Epsilon were videotaped reciting a racist chant about lync...
Two weeks ago, a student at Duke University hung a noose outside of the student commons building. Earlier in the month, two-dozen students at the University of Oklahoma fraternity Sigma Alpha Epsilon were videotaped reciting a racist chant about lync...
“Two steps forward, one step back.” So goes the old adage of social progress, and so goes American LGBTQ rights. While the past few years have seen legal and cultural improvements for marriage equality, the past few weeks have seen Indiana’s SB...
“Two steps forward, one step back.” So goes the old adage of social progress, and so goes American LGBTQ rights. While the past few years have seen legal and cultural improvements for marriage equality, the past few weeks have seen Indiana’s SB...
Monica Lewinsky is making a comeback, just in time for the 2016 election. The increased focus on Lewinsky could negatively impact Hillary Clinton’s potential presidential campaign—reminding voters of a polarizing time in America, when her husband...
Monica Lewinsky is making a comeback, just in time for the 2016 election. The increased focus on Lewinsky could negatively impact Hillary Clinton’s potential presidential campaign—reminding voters of a polarizing time in America, when her husband...