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I’ll start with the low-down: there’s a good chance many in the political arena don’t fully understand the Three-Fifths Clause. And when Americans try to talk about the “horrors” of Three-Fifths, they may actually perpetuate serious sub-tex...

Negro President and the “Three-Fifths Fail”

I’ll start with the low-down: there’s a good chance many in the political arena don’t fully understand the Three-Fifths Clause. And when Americans try to talk about the “horrors” of Three-Fifths, they may actually perpetuate serious sub-tex...

While combing through state laws as part of an research internship, I came across Massachusetts General Law Part 1, Title XII, Chapter 71, Section 31: A portion of the Bible shall be read daily in the public schools, without written note or oral comm...

Massachusetts: Not Godless Heathens?

While combing through state laws as part of an research internship, I came across Massachusetts General Law Part 1, Title XII, Chapter 71, Section 31: A portion of the Bible shall be read daily in the public schools, without written note or oral comm...

by Carly West What does the world look like in 2601? For the Kurds, it looks divided and disenfranchised, as this minority ethnic group of approximately 18 million people, struggles to protect its civil rights. (more…)...

The Kurds: A Stateless Nation

by Carly West What does the world look like in 2601? For the Kurds, it looks divided and disenfranchised, as this minority ethnic group of approximately 18 million people, struggles to protect its civil rights. (more…)...

The late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez was an inveterate U.S. foreign policy antagonist. He was a true master in this art. Ahmadinejad’s amateurish taunting is bush league in comparison. It is undeniable that over a decade in power, Chavez w...

Saying Goodbye to an Old Foe

The late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez was an inveterate U.S. foreign policy antagonist. He was a true master in this art. Ahmadinejad’s amateurish taunting is bush league in comparison. It is undeniable that over a decade in power, Chavez w...

The Providence Journal recently reported $57,232 as Brown’s sticker price for the 2013-14 school year. An increase of 4% over last year’s tuition, the seemingly constant annual increase in cost has led some to question, “Is college worth it?”...

Is College Worth It?

The Providence Journal recently reported $57,232 as Brown’s sticker price for the 2013-14 school year. An increase of 4% over last year’s tuition, the seemingly constant annual increase in cost has led some to question, “Is college worth it?”...

Jon Huntsman, a former governor of my home state, sure does look like an opportunist right now. After losing the battle to become the business-friendly Mormon presidential candidate (admittedly one he should have won) Huntsman emerged weakened. He ha...

Is Jon Huntsman Gay-Friendly?

Jon Huntsman, a former governor of my home state, sure does look like an opportunist right now. After losing the battle to become the business-friendly Mormon presidential candidate (admittedly one he should have won) Huntsman emerged weakened. He ha...

I am not sure what politics is exactly. Nonetheless, I know it’s both important and largely unrelated to the topically clean-cut and morally innocuous picture seen too often in political science. This is the model that hunts empirical terrain for m...

Keeping a Diary in the Beast’s Belly

I am not sure what politics is exactly. Nonetheless, I know it’s both important and largely unrelated to the topically clean-cut and morally innocuous picture seen too often in political science. This is the model that hunts empirical terrain for m...

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s recently proposed buyback plan for homes devastated by Hurricane Sandy is an important step towards a more sustainable America. Offering to purchase coastal dwellers’ homes for their pre-storm value (with bonuse...

New York’s Coastal Buyback Plan: Policy of the Future?

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s recently proposed buyback plan for homes devastated by Hurricane Sandy is an important step towards a more sustainable America. Offering to purchase coastal dwellers’ homes for their pre-storm value (with bonuse...

Catalunya and Euskadi (Basque Country) want to leave the dominion of the state of Spain. This is as well known as the time of day. What is not as settled is the “why”. There are of course your classic reasons: The Basques pre-date God and speak a...

Separation Anxiety

Catalunya and Euskadi (Basque Country) want to leave the dominion of the state of Spain. This is as well known as the time of day. What is not as settled is the “why”. There are of course your classic reasons: The Basques pre-date God and speak a...

Editor’s Note: The following guest column comes to us from Graham Sheridan, master of public affairs candidate at Brown University’s Taubman Center for Public Policy.  Image by Bjoertvedt As Congress comes to the teetering edge of the fi...

The Perfect End to “Starve the Beast”

Editor’s Note: The following guest column comes to us from Graham Sheridan, master of public affairs candidate at Brown University’s Taubman Center for Public Policy.  Image by Bjoertvedt As Congress comes to the teetering edge of the fi...

by Henry Knight and Will Serratelli Santa is stuffing Brown’s stocking with coal this Christmas—unless the University agrees to the demands of a new activist group on campus, the Divest Coal Campaign. The Brown University Investment Office, in co...

Brown Divest Coal: A Lump of Coal for Christmas

by Henry Knight and Will Serratelli Santa is stuffing Brown’s stocking with coal this Christmas—unless the University agrees to the demands of a new activist group on campus, the Divest Coal Campaign. The Brown University Investment Office, in co...