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A Brown University undergraduate degree in 1960 cost $45,000 when adjusted for inflation. Today, tuition costs around $190,000 — enough money to pay full fare for a 1960 Brown degree and a 1960 Harvard Business School degree and still have a couple...

Undergraduate, Overpriced

A Brown University undergraduate degree in 1960 cost $45,000 when adjusted for inflation. Today, tuition costs around $190,000 — enough money to pay full fare for a 1960 Brown degree and a 1960 Harvard Business School degree and still have a couple...

There is something rotten in the seas of Sweden. An unidentified swimming object was confirmed mid-November, nearly a month after Swedish military forces fervently searched their waters for the invading culprit. For a week in October, the Swedish mil...

When The Swedish Fish

There is something rotten in the seas of Sweden. An unidentified swimming object was confirmed mid-November, nearly a month after Swedish military forces fervently searched their waters for the invading culprit. For a week in October, the Swedish mil...

The United States is all grown up, and the wear and tear is starting to show in all the wrong places. The baby boomers, the largest generation in American history, are aging out — by the year 2050, the population of American adults over the age of ...

Emptying the Full House

The United States is all grown up, and the wear and tear is starting to show in all the wrong places. The baby boomers, the largest generation in American history, are aging out — by the year 2050, the population of American adults over the age of ...

Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori was sentenced in 2009 by the Special Criminal Court of Peru’s Supreme Court to the maximum penalty of 25 years in prison for crimes against humanity. The conviction marked the final chapter of Peru’s dec...

Peru’s Dark and Shining Nights

Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori was sentenced in 2009 by the Special Criminal Court of Peru’s Supreme Court to the maximum penalty of 25 years in prison for crimes against humanity. The conviction marked the final chapter of Peru’s dec...

Thoroughly mixed into the cultural Kool-Aid of the United States, the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) rating system — consisting of “G,” “PG,” “PG-13,” “R” and “NC-17” — is one of the most effective tools of censo...

Raters of the Lost Art

Thoroughly mixed into the cultural Kool-Aid of the United States, the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) rating system — consisting of “G,” “PG,” “PG-13,” “R” and “NC-17” — is one of the most effective tools of censo...

Earlier this year, Google announced it would be pulling its membership from the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a nonprofit that has sponsored conservative state legislators and members of the private sector to draft legislation express...

Web of Lies: Tech and Their Political Donations

Earlier this year, Google announced it would be pulling its membership from the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a nonprofit that has sponsored conservative state legislators and members of the private sector to draft legislation express...

The 7,000 illuminated balloons winding through Berlin this November 9 marked the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Despite the celebration, the wall is in the midst of an identity crisis. While the western side of the wall had always b...

Repainting History

The 7,000 illuminated balloons winding through Berlin this November 9 marked the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Despite the celebration, the wall is in the midst of an identity crisis. While the western side of the wall had always b...

The New York Marriage Equality Act of 2011 promised that same-sex marriages and opposite-sex marriages would be treated the same in all respects of the law, allowing people like Jann Paczkowski to finally marry their partners. Most narratives surroun...

LGBTQ Rights After Marriage?

The New York Marriage Equality Act of 2011 promised that same-sex marriages and opposite-sex marriages would be treated the same in all respects of the law, allowing people like Jann Paczkowski to finally marry their partners. Most narratives surroun...

Art by Katrina Machado. From the Canadian border to the Gulf of Mexico, the notorious Keystone XL pipeline has divided the United States perhaps more than any other environmental issue in the past decade. But a thousand miles away, a similar, lesser-...

Keystone Light

Art by Katrina Machado. From the Canadian border to the Gulf of Mexico, the notorious Keystone XL pipeline has divided the United States perhaps more than any other environmental issue in the past decade. But a thousand miles away, a similar, lesser-...

As summer approaches, glossy posters depicting majestic skylines of foreign cities will appear around college campuses nationwide, detailing opportunities for teaching abroad. In spite of these glittering advertisements and dedicated recruitment effo...

Teaching for Good

As summer approaches, glossy posters depicting majestic skylines of foreign cities will appear around college campuses nationwide, detailing opportunities for teaching abroad. In spite of these glittering advertisements and dedicated recruitment effo...

While West Africa faces the ravages of Ebola, potential vaccines developed a decade ago are being exhumed from what Dr. James E. Crowe calls “the biotech valley of death.” Dr. Crowe, Director of the Vanderbilt Vaccine Center at Vanderbilt Univers...

A Drug Deferred

While West Africa faces the ravages of Ebola, potential vaccines developed a decade ago are being exhumed from what Dr. James E. Crowe calls “the biotech valley of death.” Dr. Crowe, Director of the Vanderbilt Vaccine Center at Vanderbilt Univers...

Jyoti Singh is a name that, over the past few years, has become a symbol in India of the need for societal transformation. The world first heard of Singh in December 2012, when news of her fatal gang rape spread across global media. Since then, India...

Culture Against Women

Jyoti Singh is a name that, over the past few years, has become a symbol in India of the need for societal transformation. The world first heard of Singh in December 2012, when news of her fatal gang rape spread across global media. Since then, India...