“Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us alone. You are not welcome among us. You have no sovereignty where w...
What do Barack Obama and a five-time bank robber have in common? They both passed the Character and Fitness test to become lawyers. To verify their moral character as part of the Bar Exam, law school graduates must complete a 36-page questionnaire ab...
Picture a field peppered with wildflowers, tall grass swaying in the wind. A picnic blanket cradles plates of fresh fruit while friends frolic nearby. They collapse on the ground, exhausted but elated, savoring the joy of existing alongside one anoth...
“For such a small state, why can’t it get its act together?” This is a sentiment often evoked when thinking of Rhode Island. From unemployment to pension reform, the Union’s tiniest member seems to have the greatest proportion of problems. On...
“For such a small state, why can’t it get its act together?” This is a sentiment often evoked when thinking of Rhode Island. From unemployment to pension reform, the Union’s tiniest member seems to have the greatest proportion of problems. On...
by Joaquim Salles Soccer, beaches, carnival, scantily clad women. Clichés and stereotypes inevitably arise when talking about Brazil. Chief among them is the myth of the jeitinho brasileiro, or the “Brazilian way”: the informal and street-smart ...
by Joaquim Salles Soccer, beaches, carnival, scantily clad women. Clichés and stereotypes inevitably arise when talking about Brazil. Chief among them is the myth of the jeitinho brasileiro, or the “Brazilian way”: the informal and street-smart ...
by Gae Emilio Leanza Maharashtra, like the rest of “rising” India, is full of contradictions. Home to 111 million, it ranks second only to Uttar Pradesh as India’s most populous state. Maharashtra has two very different symbolic capitals within...
by Gae Emilio Leanza Maharashtra, like the rest of “rising” India, is full of contradictions. Home to 111 million, it ranks second only to Uttar Pradesh as India’s most populous state. Maharashtra has two very different symbolic capitals within...
Hooshang Amirahmadi, Ph.D., professor at Rutgers University, spoke with Brown Political Review’s Michael Chernin. Dr. Amirahmadi is the founder and president of the American–Iranian Council (AIC), a non-profit think tank dedicated to building U.S...
Hooshang Amirahmadi, Ph.D., professor at Rutgers University, spoke with Brown Political Review’s Michael Chernin. Dr. Amirahmadi is the founder and president of the American–Iranian Council (AIC), a non-profit think tank dedicated to building U.S...
A response to “Nuclear Iran, Safer World” by Omar Ben Halim by Katherine Long While I agree with Mr. Omar Ben Halim that a nuclear Iran could be capable of balancing Israeli power and lead to a more stable Middle East (“Nuclear Iran, Safer Worl...
A response to “Nuclear Iran, Safer World” by Omar Ben Halim by Katherine Long While I agree with Mr. Omar Ben Halim that a nuclear Iran could be capable of balancing Israeli power and lead to a more stable Middle East (“Nuclear Iran, Safer Worl...
Uranium. Campaign checks. Oil. What’s really going on in Mali. France is at war. At the time of writing, 4,000 French soldiers are deployed in Azawad, the northern half of Mali, fighting a combination of Islamist and separatist insurgents who t...
Uranium. Campaign checks. Oil. What’s really going on in Mali. France is at war. At the time of writing, 4,000 French soldiers are deployed in Azawad, the northern half of Mali, fighting a combination of Islamist and separatist insurgents who t...
Guest worker programs propagate indentured servitude in the 21st Century. by Jake Karr This year, around 700,000 people will arrive in the United States legally through various temporary work programs. They will reach our shores or cross our borders ...
Guest worker programs propagate indentured servitude in the 21st Century. by Jake Karr This year, around 700,000 people will arrive in the United States legally through various temporary work programs. They will reach our shores or cross our borders ...
Meet the new journalism, funded by you. by Ben Wofford For one brief moment in 1967, Broadway met political journalism halfway. In the banter following Fiddler on the Roof’s “If I Were a Rich Man,” Tevye laments his daughter’s refusal to ente...
Meet the new journalism, funded by you. by Ben Wofford For one brief moment in 1967, Broadway met political journalism halfway. In the banter following Fiddler on the Roof’s “If I Were a Rich Man,” Tevye laments his daughter’s refusal to ente...
A Brown student imagines the White House’s most secret memo. by Daniel Duhaime Dear Mr. President: (more…)...
A Brown student imagines the White House’s most secret memo. by Daniel Duhaime Dear Mr. President: (more…)...
How an election became a contest for Korea’s past as well as its future. by Woojeong Jang On December 19, 2012, South Korea held its eighteenth presidential election. As a result, Park Geun-hye became the first female president in Korean history. S...
How an election became a contest for Korea’s past as well as its future. by Woojeong Jang On December 19, 2012, South Korea held its eighteenth presidential election. As a result, Park Geun-hye became the first female president in Korean history. S...
When it comes to taxes, the left is risking reform for rhetoric. by David Kaufman The echoes of Occupy Wall Street’s chants for egalitarianism have long faded from the streets of downtown Manhattan, but U.S. politicians have yet to decide how to sp...
When it comes to taxes, the left is risking reform for rhetoric. by David Kaufman The echoes of Occupy Wall Street’s chants for egalitarianism have long faded from the streets of downtown Manhattan, but U.S. politicians have yet to decide how to sp...
Women’s rights in India needs a new model for action. by David Adler I used to travel two hours a day on the Delhi metro to go to university. In the fluorescent frankness of public transportation, conditions of gender violence are impossible to i...
Women’s rights in India needs a new model for action. by David Adler I used to travel two hours a day on the Delhi metro to go to university. In the fluorescent frankness of public transportation, conditions of gender violence are impossible to i...