On September 21, 2015, the world watched the inaugural trip of sub-Saharan Africa’s first urban light rail system — and if they didn’t, they should have. The Ethiopian government partnered with two Chinese companies to bring a much-needed mass ...
Former US Ambassador and Co-Chair of US China Policy Foundation Chas Freeman speaks at the Foreign Policy Panel at the Brown China Summit from April 22-23. Ambassador Freeman’s talk discusses “Evolving Diplomacy in the 21st Century”...
Martin Shkreli has received extensive coverage for raising the price of a medication for HIV overnight, but he’s only a symptom of a larger problem. Learn more about the high cost of pharmaceuticals in the US with this update from the BPR Media...
Yesterday, the French government signed a deal to provide Peugeot-Citroën, Europe’s second largest automaker, with €7 billion (or $9 billion) in credit guarantees. This is yet another example of government intervention in industrial sectors stru...
Yesterday, the French government signed a deal to provide Peugeot-Citroën, Europe’s second largest automaker, with €7 billion (or $9 billion) in credit guarantees. This is yet another example of government intervention in industrial sectors stru...
Image obtained from Wikipedia. As is traditional in an election year, most of the normal legislative agenda has been suspended in favor of campaigns and partisan posturing. The GOP is largely running on the economy, which is sure to be a winning is...
Image obtained from Wikipedia. As is traditional in an election year, most of the normal legislative agenda has been suspended in favor of campaigns and partisan posturing. The GOP is largely running on the economy, which is sure to be a winning is...
We’ve already bemoaned the superficiality and exclusiveness of American presidential debates, but most American voters probably think that it doesn’t matter anymore. Election Day is just two weeks away and last night’s debate was th...
We’ve already bemoaned the superficiality and exclusiveness of American presidential debates, but most American voters probably think that it doesn’t matter anymore. Election Day is just two weeks away and last night’s debate was th...
We like to criticize the media for latching on to political gaffes, but we, the people of the Internet, clearly enjoy a good campaign faux pas. Mitt Romney’s answer to a question about pay inequity between men and women contained the unfortunate ph...
We like to criticize the media for latching on to political gaffes, but we, the people of the Internet, clearly enjoy a good campaign faux pas. Mitt Romney’s answer to a question about pay inequity between men and women contained the unfortunate ph...
BPR interviewed Ronald Deibert, director of Citizens Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto, an interdisciplinary research organization focusing at the intersection of internet, global security and human rights. They have wor...
BPR interviewed Ronald Deibert, director of Citizens Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto, an interdisciplinary research organization focusing at the intersection of internet, global security and human rights. They have wor...
Lately, the degree to which discourses of “objectivity” have dominated our political theatre is astounding. Everywhere one turns, he or she is confronted by a variety of appeals to some qualification outside the bound of “politics” and “par...
Lately, the degree to which discourses of “objectivity” have dominated our political theatre is astounding. Everywhere one turns, he or she is confronted by a variety of appeals to some qualification outside the bound of “politics” and “par...
Europe has not experienced a major war in the last six decades. Today a European civil war, with the ensuing international spillover, is simply unthinkable. That we take this for granted is extraordinary, given that for centuries Europeans have been ...
Europe has not experienced a major war in the last six decades. Today a European civil war, with the ensuing international spillover, is simply unthinkable. That we take this for granted is extraordinary, given that for centuries Europeans have been ...
The jury’s still out on whether or not His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet ended his speech to a capacity crowd at the RI Convention Center with the eternally sapient adage: ‘F*** it’. But though that’s definitely a d...
The jury’s still out on whether or not His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet ended his speech to a capacity crowd at the RI Convention Center with the eternally sapient adage: ‘F*** it’. But though that’s definitely a d...
Last week, I wrote about how the Western media focuses disproportionately on negative news out of the Middle East, drawing attention to violence and sectarianism, and ultimately perpetuating American fears of the region and its people. Today, I will ...
Last week, I wrote about how the Western media focuses disproportionately on negative news out of the Middle East, drawing attention to violence and sectarianism, and ultimately perpetuating American fears of the region and its people. Today, I will ...
In the past year, we’ve heard President Obama and Governor Romney talk about everything from Libya to the London Olympics. However, public education has been noticeably absent from our nation’s discourse. A topic that has been included in nationa...
In the past year, we’ve heard President Obama and Governor Romney talk about everything from Libya to the London Olympics. However, public education has been noticeably absent from our nation’s discourse. A topic that has been included in nationa...
It’s the first day of kindergarten. Aren’t you cute? You, five years old, walk out the door to school, maybe for the first time – excited, impatient, catatonic or crying hysterically. You’ve walked past your neighborhood school hundreds of ti...
It’s the first day of kindergarten. Aren’t you cute? You, five years old, walk out the door to school, maybe for the first time – excited, impatient, catatonic or crying hysterically. You’ve walked past your neighborhood school hundreds of ti...