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...
The debate. Candidates’ final chance to make pitches. The make-or-break moment to revive campaigns. A bad performance that loses the election. Debates are an important part of our American democracy. We watch platforms and visions unfold and decide...
The debate. Candidates’ final chance to make pitches. The make-or-break moment to revive campaigns. A bad performance that loses the election. Debates are an important part of our American democracy. We watch platforms and visions unfold and decide...
“The first thing the government does in an election year,” former Greek finance minister George Papaconstantinou admitted in 2009, “is to pull the tax collectors off the streets.” I think this statement has a lot to say about Greek debt, and ...
“The first thing the government does in an election year,” former Greek finance minister George Papaconstantinou admitted in 2009, “is to pull the tax collectors off the streets.” I think this statement has a lot to say about Greek debt, and ...
Romney’s new ad is a Frankenstein of formerly-discarded messaging strategies. Will it work? Supposedly, Mitt Romney crossed the “choice versus referendum” line when choosing Paul Ryan. But this week of new ads, criticism within the ...
Romney’s new ad is a Frankenstein of formerly-discarded messaging strategies. Will it work? Supposedly, Mitt Romney crossed the “choice versus referendum” line when choosing Paul Ryan. But this week of new ads, criticism within the ...
In SCOTUSblog’s recent article, “Same-sex marriage symposium: Justice Scalia’s constitutional case for gay marriage,” author Dale Carpenter argues that Scalia’s dissent in Lawrence v. Thomas (2003) will actually help the Court decide in f...
In SCOTUSblog’s recent article, “Same-sex marriage symposium: Justice Scalia’s constitutional case for gay marriage,” author Dale Carpenter argues that Scalia’s dissent in Lawrence v. Thomas (2003) will actually help the Court decide in f...
With a greater chunk of non English-speaking voters headed to the polls in swing states next month than ever before in American electoral history, language has become a dealbreaker on the campaign trail. 2012 presents an array of challenges to the ta...
With a greater chunk of non English-speaking voters headed to the polls in swing states next month than ever before in American electoral history, language has become a dealbreaker on the campaign trail. 2012 presents an array of challenges to the ta...
As a child growing up in South India I was often told by my South Indian nanny to stay out of the Sun. “Or else you’ll be black like me and you will have to work as a maid”, she would tell me. The origins of fairness traced back to the advent o...
As a child growing up in South India I was often told by my South Indian nanny to stay out of the Sun. “Or else you’ll be black like me and you will have to work as a maid”, she would tell me. The origins of fairness traced back to the advent o...
The fabled “undecided voter” gets a bad rap in SNL’s Digital Short this week (granted, so has the Chronicles of Narnia and President Ahmadinejad in the past). But amazingly, SNL’s dumbed-down undecideds—“What happe...
The fabled “undecided voter” gets a bad rap in SNL’s Digital Short this week (granted, so has the Chronicles of Narnia and President Ahmadinejad in the past). But amazingly, SNL’s dumbed-down undecideds—“What happe...
The topics for the first presidential debate have been announced and education is not on the agenda. The economy dominates half of the planned topics, which is unsurprising. But the recently ended teachers strike in Chicago has put education back on ...
The topics for the first presidential debate have been announced and education is not on the agenda. The economy dominates half of the planned topics, which is unsurprising. But the recently ended teachers strike in Chicago has put education back on ...
When Richard Saul Wurman produced the TED Conference, it was the culmination of a decades-long career in “information architecture.” After publishing Information Anxiety, his bestselling guide to the technology age, Wurman won numerous grants fro...
When Richard Saul Wurman produced the TED Conference, it was the culmination of a decades-long career in “information architecture.” After publishing Information Anxiety, his bestselling guide to the technology age, Wurman won numerous grants fro...
No President since FDR has ever been reelected with an unemployment rate above 7.2%. Period. However, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported in August that the unemployment rate is 8.1%, about where it has been since the beginning of the year. What ...
No President since FDR has ever been reelected with an unemployment rate above 7.2%. Period. However, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported in August that the unemployment rate is 8.1%, about where it has been since the beginning of the year. What ...
Many Americans’ first exposure to Chief Justice John Roberts was in January 2009 when he made a mistake reading the Oath of Office to President Obama at the inauguration ceremony. Before then, he was a somewhat “under-the-radar” member of the C...
Many Americans’ first exposure to Chief Justice John Roberts was in January 2009 when he made a mistake reading the Oath of Office to President Obama at the inauguration ceremony. Before then, he was a somewhat “under-the-radar” member of the C...
Obama isn’t the only candidate whose numbers are rising. So is the collective fate of a Senate that could remain in Democratic hands. There’s any number of guesses for why it’s happening, but as Nate Silver breaks it down, the odds ...
Obama isn’t the only candidate whose numbers are rising. So is the collective fate of a Senate that could remain in Democratic hands. There’s any number of guesses for why it’s happening, but as Nate Silver breaks it down, the odds ...