Sunlight pours through sliding glass doors, pooling across the leaves of a fiddle-leaf fig and the gentle curves of a midcentury modern chair. On days like these, the doors are left open so that the sprawl of RealReal-scouring students, artists, and ...
If you experience domestic violence, a victims’ compensation fund should defray the medical and legal costs of victimization. If you are deemed the wrong kind of person, however, Rhode Island’s victim compensation fund will turn you away. Rhode I...
Albania’s newest cabinet member is pregnant…with 83 babies. But do not worry, she is not human. Meet Diella, Albania’s “AI minister.” Diella was “born” on January 19, 2025, with the job of managing Albania’s ‘e-Albania’ platform, ...
Standing before a packed audience in the Taubman Center for Public Policy, Timothy Edgar called this past summer a “crisis of confidence” for the National Security Administration (NSA). Edgar, a civil liberties and privacy lawyer who has worked i...
Standing before a packed audience in the Taubman Center for Public Policy, Timothy Edgar called this past summer a “crisis of confidence” for the National Security Administration (NSA). Edgar, a civil liberties and privacy lawyer who has worked i...
On October 1, Muslims in the coastal village of Thabyuchaing in the northwest of Burma fled into the surrounding forests as their homes were torched and left to burn by a sword-wielding Buddhist mob. Not everyone was lucky enough to escape: five Musl...
On October 1, Muslims in the coastal village of Thabyuchaing in the northwest of Burma fled into the surrounding forests as their homes were torched and left to burn by a sword-wielding Buddhist mob. Not everyone was lucky enough to escape: five Musl...
By Dylan Platt When white smoke plumed from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel last March, it was the unwitting signal of an international blaze of change across the Roman Catholic Church. No one could deny the recent decline of Catholicism; attendanc...
By Dylan Platt When white smoke plumed from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel last March, it was the unwitting signal of an international blaze of change across the Roman Catholic Church. No one could deny the recent decline of Catholicism; attendanc...
By Michael Tamayo “It will arise from the ashes.” It seems fitting that Detroit’s city motto involves rebirth from ruin. Detroit’s long-chronicled decline finally culminated in July 2013, when it became the largest American city in history to...
By Michael Tamayo “It will arise from the ashes.” It seems fitting that Detroit’s city motto involves rebirth from ruin. Detroit’s long-chronicled decline finally culminated in July 2013, when it became the largest American city in history to...
In the years after the Vietnam War ended, Americans were said to have suffered “Vietnam syndrome,” a cultural condition that led to averseness to war. Today, the American public has been defined by the advent of terrorism, which has produced a si...
In the years after the Vietnam War ended, Americans were said to have suffered “Vietnam syndrome,” a cultural condition that led to averseness to war. Today, the American public has been defined by the advent of terrorism, which has produced a si...
By Adam Savat They may have a stiff upper lip, but the British are having a tough time coping with cattle panic. Almost all major cattle raising countries are plagued by livestock issues, such as excessive weight gain in the United States or the co...
By Adam Savat They may have a stiff upper lip, but the British are having a tough time coping with cattle panic. Almost all major cattle raising countries are plagued by livestock issues, such as excessive weight gain in the United States or the co...
By Adam Bouche Politicians have a difficult time grasping the scientific method. All too frequently, scientific knowledge and research is hastily dismissed during the formulation of policy. At a time when 84 percent of the public believes that scienc...
By Adam Bouche Politicians have a difficult time grasping the scientific method. All too frequently, scientific knowledge and research is hastily dismissed during the formulation of policy. At a time when 84 percent of the public believes that scienc...
By Emma Dickson On the night of his reelection on November 7, 2012, President Barack Obama referred to Vice President Joe Biden as “America’s Happy Warrior.” Many Americans know Biden as a veteran negotiator who has been forgiven for many mor...
By Emma Dickson On the night of his reelection on November 7, 2012, President Barack Obama referred to Vice President Joe Biden as “America’s Happy Warrior.” Many Americans know Biden as a veteran negotiator who has been forgiven for many mor...
Allan Fung is the mayor of Cranston, Rhode Island. Elected in 2008, Fung previously served as City-Wide Councilman and was a prosecutor in the Rhode Island Office of the Attorney General from 1999 to 2001. Interview by Emily Gelber Mayor Fung poses w...
Allan Fung is the mayor of Cranston, Rhode Island. Elected in 2008, Fung previously served as City-Wide Councilman and was a prosecutor in the Rhode Island Office of the Attorney General from 1999 to 2001. Interview by Emily Gelber Mayor Fung poses w...
Governor Lincoln D. Chafee ’75 is the 74th Governor of Rhode Island. Elected in 2010 on a platform of increasing government transparency and economic revitalization, Chafee will likely face challengers from both the left and right in his upcoming r...
Governor Lincoln D. Chafee ’75 is the 74th Governor of Rhode Island. Elected in 2010 on a platform of increasing government transparency and economic revitalization, Chafee will likely face challengers from both the left and right in his upcoming r...
A Special Feature by BPR and BPF On February 20, the Supreme Court heard Shelby County v. Alabama, a challenge to Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act (VRA). Four Brown Political Forum participants weigh in on the pending decision. (more…)...
A Special Feature by BPR and BPF On February 20, the Supreme Court heard Shelby County v. Alabama, a challenge to Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act (VRA). Four Brown Political Forum participants weigh in on the pending decision. (more…)...
There was an ominous silence after Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) finished asking Dr. Arindrajit Dube her question. “If we started in 1960 and we said that as productivity goes up — that is, as workers are producing more — then the minimum wage i...
There was an ominous silence after Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) finished asking Dr. Arindrajit Dube her question. “If we started in 1960 and we said that as productivity goes up — that is, as workers are producing more — then the minimum wage i...