Skip Navigation
Interviews

U.S.

Popular Articles

Latest

Theodore Olson served as legal counsel to President Ronald Reagan during the Iran-Contra affair and as United States Solicitor General under President George W. Bush. In 2000, Olson represented Bush in Bush v. Gore. In 2013, Olson successfully argued...

BPR Interviews: Theodore Olson

Theodore Olson served as legal counsel to President Ronald Reagan during the Iran-Contra affair and as United States Solicitor General under President George W. Bush. In 2000, Olson represented Bush in Bush v. Gore. In 2013, Olson successfully argued...

Larry Siems, the author of The Torture Report, is a writer and human rights activist. He is the editor of the New York Times bestseller “Guantánamo Diary,” the memoir of Mohamedou Ould Slahi, who has been imprisoned at the Guantánamo Bay detent...

BPR Interviews: Larry Siems

Larry Siems, the author of The Torture Report, is a writer and human rights activist. He is the editor of the New York Times bestseller “Guantánamo Diary,” the memoir of Mohamedou Ould Slahi, who has been imprisoned at the Guantánamo Bay detent...

Thomas Perez ’83, a Brown alumnus who holds a master of public policy and a law degree from Harvard University, is the US Secretary of Labor and the former Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights of the US Department of Justice. Brown Political...

BPR Interview: Thomas Perez

Thomas Perez ’83, a Brown alumnus who holds a master of public policy and a law degree from Harvard University, is the US Secretary of Labor and the former Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights of the US Department of Justice. Brown Political...

Katherine Mangu-Ward is the managing editor of Reason Magazine, the news arm of the libertarian policy center Reason Foundation. A featured panelist in BPR’s recent family weekend media event, she is a 2013-2014 Future Tense fellow at the New Ameri...

BPR Interview: Katherine Mangu-Ward

Katherine Mangu-Ward is the managing editor of Reason Magazine, the news arm of the libertarian policy center Reason Foundation. A featured panelist in BPR’s recent family weekend media event, she is a 2013-2014 Future Tense fellow at the New Ameri...

Junot Díaz, the 2008 winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction for his novel “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao,” is a professor of writing at the Massachusetts Institutes of Technology. A fiction editor at Boston Review and a 2012 MacArthur ...

BPR Interviews: Junot Díaz

Junot Díaz, the 2008 winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction for his novel “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao,” is a professor of writing at the Massachusetts Institutes of Technology. A fiction editor at Boston Review and a 2012 MacArthur ...

Joel Simon is the executive director of the Committee to Protect Journalists, an independent nonprofit that provides assistance to journalists in dangerous situations around the globe. Brown Political Review: News organizations have recently slashed...

BPR Interview: Joel Simon

Joel Simon is the executive director of the Committee to Protect Journalists, an independent nonprofit that provides assistance to journalists in dangerous situations around the globe. Brown Political Review: News organizations have recently slashed...

Dawn K. Smith is an epidemiologist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). In May, the CDC began recommending that men who have sex with men (MSM), intravenous drug users and other high-risk groups take Truvada, a drug that can reduc...

BPR Interview: Dawn Smith

Dawn K. Smith is an epidemiologist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). In May, the CDC began recommending that men who have sex with men (MSM), intravenous drug users and other high-risk groups take Truvada, a drug that can reduc...

Joe Scarborough is a former lawyer and the current host of the popular political commentary news program Morning Joe on MSNBC. He was a Republican congressman for Florida from 1995 to 2001.   Brown Political Review: What do you think was the larges...

BPR Interview: Joe Scarborough

Joe Scarborough is a former lawyer and the current host of the popular political commentary news program Morning Joe on MSNBC. He was a Republican congressman for Florida from 1995 to 2001.   Brown Political Review: What do you think was the larges...

Sherrilyn Ifill is the seventh President of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund. She has served as a fellow at the ACLU and is on the faculty of the University of Maryland School of Law. Brown Political Review: As a top civil rights lawyer,...

BPR Interview: Sherrilyn Ifill

Sherrilyn Ifill is the seventh President of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund. She has served as a fellow at the ACLU and is on the faculty of the University of Maryland School of Law. Brown Political Review: As a top civil rights lawyer,...

Hugh Clements became Providence’s 37th Chief of Police in 2012. Clements has received recognition for his service from the FBI and holds a bachelor of science in justice administration from Roger Williams University. Brown Political Review: ...

BPR Interview: Hugh Clements

Hugh Clements became Providence’s 37th Chief of Police in 2012. Clements has received recognition for his service from the FBI and holds a bachelor of science in justice administration from Roger Williams University. Brown Political Review: ...

Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) has been Rhode Island’s junior senator since 2007 and is the former Rhode Island attorney general. He serves on the Senate Budget Committee, Environment and Public Works Committee and the Judiciary Committee, among ot...

BPR Interview: Sheldon Whitehouse

Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) has been Rhode Island’s junior senator since 2007 and is the former Rhode Island attorney general. He serves on the Senate Budget Committee, Environment and Public Works Committee and the Judiciary Committee, among ot...

John Dennis is the Republican candidate for California’s twelfth Congressional district. Running on a libertarian platform, Dennis will face Major Leader Nancy Pelosi for a third time this November. Dennis conducted this interview with BPR&#...

BPR Interview: John Dennis

John Dennis is the Republican candidate for California’s twelfth Congressional district. Running on a libertarian platform, Dennis will face Major Leader Nancy Pelosi for a third time this November. Dennis conducted this interview with BPR&#...