In April 2025, we met with the owners of two prominent local businesses on Hope Street in Providence. Here are their stories: When strolling through Fox Point, it is common to see small white placards attached to the fronts of historical buildings, u...
What do you think of when you imagine the act of thought? Western culture’s quintessential image of intelligence—Auguste Rodin’s sculpture The Thinker—depicts one man alone with his thoughts. A more accurate portrait of human intelligence mig...
The landscape of income-restricted development has changed dramatically over the past half-century. During the era of public housing construction, the federal government directly provided loans and covered debt service for local housing authorities, ...
The Cook Islands, located in the South Pacific, are known for their lush volcanic peaks, tropical beaches, and vast emerald waters. With around 17,000 inhabitants, the 15 islands boast a total land area slightly larger than Washington DC yet are stre...
The Cook Islands, located in the South Pacific, are known for their lush volcanic peaks, tropical beaches, and vast emerald waters. With around 17,000 inhabitants, the 15 islands boast a total land area slightly larger than Washington DC yet are stre...
“We will shoot you all,” (“Site ke ve strelame”) tweeted politician Dimitar Apasiev after his party, Levica, a far-left nationalist political party in North Macedonia, secured its first two seats in the National Assembly during the 2020 parli...
“We will shoot you all,” (“Site ke ve strelame”) tweeted politician Dimitar Apasiev after his party, Levica, a far-left nationalist political party in North Macedonia, secured its first two seats in the National Assembly during the 2020 parli...
Anisha Rajapakse is a global professional working at the intersection of international development, human rights, and business, with experience spanning Africa, Asia, the Middle East, the Caribbean, and the Pacific regions. Anisha led the Human Devel...
Anisha Rajapakse is a global professional working at the intersection of international development, human rights, and business, with experience spanning Africa, Asia, the Middle East, the Caribbean, and the Pacific regions. Anisha led the Human Devel...
India: The world’s biggest democracy. To most political scientists, India’s transformation from a movement of peaceful protest against British colonial forces to a 600-million-strong electoral body is beyond astounding. Even more shocking, howeve...
India: The world’s biggest democracy. To most political scientists, India’s transformation from a movement of peaceful protest against British colonial forces to a 600-million-strong electoral body is beyond astounding. Even more shocking, howeve...
“We need double the energy we currently have in the United States—can you imagine? For AI to really be as big as we want to have it,” President Donald Trump proclaimed at the World Economic Forum in January 2025. In his first action fulfilling ...
“We need double the energy we currently have in the United States—can you imagine? For AI to really be as big as we want to have it,” President Donald Trump proclaimed at the World Economic Forum in January 2025. In his first action fulfilling ...
Amid the colorful homes of Old San Juan lies an abandoned building adorned with a black-and-white striped flag. Painted over the original red, white, and blue colors of Puerto Rico, the monochrome flag is a symbol of resistance against US economic co...
Amid the colorful homes of Old San Juan lies an abandoned building adorned with a black-and-white striped flag. Painted over the original red, white, and blue colors of Puerto Rico, the monochrome flag is a symbol of resistance against US economic co...
“This government will set out a moderate aristocracy: it is at present impossible to foresee whether it will, in its operation, produce a monarchy, or a corrupt, tyrannical aristocracy.” This passage was “Forgotten Father” George Mason’s ju...
“This government will set out a moderate aristocracy: it is at present impossible to foresee whether it will, in its operation, produce a monarchy, or a corrupt, tyrannical aristocracy.” This passage was “Forgotten Father” George Mason’s ju...
More often than not, things fall apart to make way for better things. Landmark revolutions in history reach heights of social upheaval that render a return to the old order impossible. But what happens when a revolution becomes entangled with other m...
More often than not, things fall apart to make way for better things. Landmark revolutions in history reach heights of social upheaval that render a return to the old order impossible. But what happens when a revolution becomes entangled with other m...
In the basement of the British Museum in London lie 11 Ethiopian tabots—consecrated wooden and stone tablets believed to register the spirit of God. British soldiers looted them from a Northern Ethiopian Church during the 1868 Battle of Magda...
In the basement of the British Museum in London lie 11 Ethiopian tabots—consecrated wooden and stone tablets believed to register the spirit of God. British soldiers looted them from a Northern Ethiopian Church during the 1868 Battle of Magda...
“It’s a very Christian concept that you love your family, and then you love your neighbor, and then you love your community, and then you love your fellow citizens in your own country, and then after that you can focus and prioritize the rest of ...
“It’s a very Christian concept that you love your family, and then you love your neighbor, and then you love your community, and then you love your fellow citizens in your own country, and then after that you can focus and prioritize the rest of ...
On June 5, 1981, the US Center for Disease Control (CDC) published an article in its Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report that spoke of five young, previously healthy gay men who presented with rare cases of a lung infection called pneumocystis cari...
On June 5, 1981, the US Center for Disease Control (CDC) published an article in its Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report that spoke of five young, previously healthy gay men who presented with rare cases of a lung infection called pneumocystis cari...
The Soviet Union’s triumphant launch of the Sputnik satellite in 1957 started the Space Race, an era of intense geopolitical and scientific competition that ended with the American victory on July 20, 1969 when Neil Armstrong took the first steps o...
The Soviet Union’s triumphant launch of the Sputnik satellite in 1957 started the Space Race, an era of intense geopolitical and scientific competition that ended with the American victory on July 20, 1969 when Neil Armstrong took the first steps o...