It is impossible to be bored on Año Viejo (New Year’s Eve) in Ecuador’s capital city. The country blends rich traditions typical of many Latin American countries — like eating las doce uvas de la suerte, twelve grapes each bestowed with a wish...
Whether it’s because of poor work performance, misconduct, or plain bad luck, getting fired is a near-universal experience. Even officials at the highest levels of the world’s governments and militaries are vulnerable to being axed. But when thos...
On January 26, 2026, after an unprecedented winter storm left a foot of snow across Providence, residents gleefully went outside to play in the snow, building snowmen, throwing snow, and sledding on hills. It seemed like a perfect day. But unbeknowns...
In January 2020, I took the 30 minute drive from San Diego to the Otay Mesa Detention Center. From the winding road, I could see three flags: the Stars and Stripes, the California Bear, and “CoreCivic,” a private company which operated the center...
In January 2020, I took the 30 minute drive from San Diego to the Otay Mesa Detention Center. From the winding road, I could see three flags: the Stars and Stripes, the California Bear, and “CoreCivic,” a private company which operated the center...
Last summer, the Justice Department found that Brown had violated Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) by denying readmission to students who had taken leave from the university for mental health reasons. Title III dictates that pla...
Last summer, the Justice Department found that Brown had violated Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) by denying readmission to students who had taken leave from the university for mental health reasons. Title III dictates that pla...
On February 7th and 8th of this year, student activists plastered Brown’s campus with the message: “Brown University has a sexual violence problem, and the administration doesn’t care.” Student activists have been calling for an adequate resp...
On February 7th and 8th of this year, student activists plastered Brown’s campus with the message: “Brown University has a sexual violence problem, and the administration doesn’t care.” Student activists have been calling for an adequate resp...
Within the span of a month in the spring of 2019, Impossible Foods made a historic deal with Burger King to launch the Impossible Whopper, and its biggest competitor, Beyond Meat, went public in one of the splashiest rollouts in modern history. The p...
Within the span of a month in the spring of 2019, Impossible Foods made a historic deal with Burger King to launch the Impossible Whopper, and its biggest competitor, Beyond Meat, went public in one of the splashiest rollouts in modern history. The p...
“The punk scene, the hardcore scene, was smoking,” Umberto Crenca proclaimed, referencing Providence in the 1980s. Crenca is well-positioned to opine on the city’s music scene as the founder of AS220, a community nonprofit in downtown Providenc...
“The punk scene, the hardcore scene, was smoking,” Umberto Crenca proclaimed, referencing Providence in the 1980s. Crenca is well-positioned to opine on the city’s music scene as the founder of AS220, a community nonprofit in downtown Providenc...
In late 2019, presidential candidate Joe Biden was asked whether he, as president, would hold Saudi leaders accountable for the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in 2018. President Biden assertively responded that “Khashoggi was, in fact, murder...
In late 2019, presidential candidate Joe Biden was asked whether he, as president, would hold Saudi leaders accountable for the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in 2018. President Biden assertively responded that “Khashoggi was, in fact, murder...
Inter-tribal clashes are a major contributing factor to instability in South Sudan, so it is no surprise that an increase in violent cattle raiding has largely been attributed to the current conflict between the Dinka-dominated Sudanese People’s Li...
Inter-tribal clashes are a major contributing factor to instability in South Sudan, so it is no surprise that an increase in violent cattle raiding has largely been attributed to the current conflict between the Dinka-dominated Sudanese People’s Li...
“Today it is me, tomorrow it could be you.” That was Pablo Hasél’s last tweet before his arrest on February 12, 2021, after taking refuge in the University of Lleida to avoid a nine-month jail sentence. As police in riot gear moved in to escor...
“Today it is me, tomorrow it could be you.” That was Pablo Hasél’s last tweet before his arrest on February 12, 2021, after taking refuge in the University of Lleida to avoid a nine-month jail sentence. As police in riot gear moved in to escor...
“Give me your tired, your poor, / Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, / The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.” Today, US asylum policy is a far cry from the open approach described in Emma Lazarus’s poem inscribed on the bottom o...
“Give me your tired, your poor, / Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, / The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.” Today, US asylum policy is a far cry from the open approach described in Emma Lazarus’s poem inscribed on the bottom o...
Last fall I led a research team at Brown’s Climate and Development Lab, which investigated 10 of the country’s largest investor-owned utilities. The report we produced was featured in The Atlantic shortly after its publication. Curiously, however...
Last fall I led a research team at Brown’s Climate and Development Lab, which investigated 10 of the country’s largest investor-owned utilities. The report we produced was featured in The Atlantic shortly after its publication. Curiously, however...
Each year, hundreds of thousands of wanderlusting adventure-seekers travel to Blanding, Utah, a quaint town with a population of under 4,000 people located in the southeastern corner of the state. What intrigues these excited travelers? The answer is...
Each year, hundreds of thousands of wanderlusting adventure-seekers travel to Blanding, Utah, a quaint town with a population of under 4,000 people located in the southeastern corner of the state. What intrigues these excited travelers? The answer is...
In 2018, 2,435 Rhode Islanders received an in-state abortion and 382 others came from another state to receive an abortion in Rhode Island. Demand and numbers for abortions in the smallest state of the nation would seem to indicate fair abortion laws...
In 2018, 2,435 Rhode Islanders received an in-state abortion and 382 others came from another state to receive an abortion in Rhode Island. Demand and numbers for abortions in the smallest state of the nation would seem to indicate fair abortion laws...