The BPR High School Program invites student writers to research, draft, and edit a college-level opinion article over the course of a semester. Josiah Chu is a high school senior with dual enrollment at Wisconsin Lutheran College. In 1997, Anchalee A...
Dr. Ira Wilson, MD, MSc is a primary care physician, Associate Provost for Academic Space, and current professor in and former chair of the Department of Health Services, Policy and Practice at Brown University’s School of Public Health. He has con...
Jennifer Nuzzo, director of the Pandemic Center and Professor of Epidemiology at Brown University, reviews depictions of epidemics in Twilight (2008), The Last of Us (2023), Outbreak (1995), and Contagion (2011), and discusses how they relate to real...
A recent episode of WBUR radio’s On Point with Tom Ashbrook discussed a major new policy debate: can big food be sued in the way big tobacco was? On the surface, many would say no, but others disagree. Ashbrook hosted guests on both sides of the d...
A recent episode of WBUR radio’s On Point with Tom Ashbrook discussed a major new policy debate: can big food be sued in the way big tobacco was? On the surface, many would say no, but others disagree. Ashbrook hosted guests on both sides of the d...
Hello, readers! Just a short update this week as we wait for the Supreme Court to hear more cases. First, in case you missed the breaking news, U.S. District Judge Arenda Wright Allen “ruled Thursday [February 13] that Virginia’s ban on same-sex ...
Hello, readers! Just a short update this week as we wait for the Supreme Court to hear more cases. First, in case you missed the breaking news, U.S. District Judge Arenda Wright Allen “ruled Thursday [February 13] that Virginia’s ban on same-sex ...
Hello readers! I hope that, despite Punxsutawney Phil’s prediction of six more weeks of winter, you’re keeping warm and reading up on Supreme Court news. I’m here this week to discuss a subject that is near and dear to my heart: women’s repro...
Hello readers! I hope that, despite Punxsutawney Phil’s prediction of six more weeks of winter, you’re keeping warm and reading up on Supreme Court news. I’m here this week to discuss a subject that is near and dear to my heart: women’s repro...
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...
Hello, readers, and welcome to December! Just when you thought the Supreme Court was slowing down in preparation for the holiday season, The Nine have once again shaken things up. Last Tuesday, November 26, the Court decided to hear four new cases, t...
Hello, readers, and welcome to December! Just when you thought the Supreme Court was slowing down in preparation for the holiday season, The Nine have once again shaken things up. Last Tuesday, November 26, the Court decided to hear four new cases, t...
Hello readers, and happy almost Thanksgiving! Whatever your views on the holiday or its circumstances may be, I hope that you eat good food and spend quality time with family and friends. The Supreme Court is on a bit of a “holiday” at the moment...
Hello readers, and happy almost Thanksgiving! Whatever your views on the holiday or its circumstances may be, I hope that you eat good food and spend quality time with family and friends. The Supreme Court is on a bit of a “holiday” at the moment...
Nearly all Brown students are familiar with the concept of mutually assured destruction. Taught in even the most cursory of Cold War histories, this theory refers to a form of deterrence whereby the overwhelming and reciprocal threat of destruction p...
Nearly all Brown students are familiar with the concept of mutually assured destruction. Taught in even the most cursory of Cold War histories, this theory refers to a form of deterrence whereby the overwhelming and reciprocal threat of destruction p...
In an astonishing display of contrition, last Thursday President Obama apologized to Americans who are losing their health insurance plans as a result of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. In recent weeks the president has been the subje...
In an astonishing display of contrition, last Thursday President Obama apologized to Americans who are losing their health insurance plans as a result of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. In recent weeks the president has been the subje...
It’s hard to get a straight answer on the Affordable Care Act. Conversation on every component of the law is hugely partisan; Democrats say it will reform the flawed American health insurance industry and provide long overdue universal health care...
It’s hard to get a straight answer on the Affordable Care Act. Conversation on every component of the law is hugely partisan; Democrats say it will reform the flawed American health insurance industry and provide long overdue universal health care...
As the leaves change color and the temperature drops, winter and the flu season are fast approaching. With the chill also comes the choice of whether or not to get the flu vaccine. Many factors go into this decision: religious beliefs, philosophical ...
As the leaves change color and the temperature drops, winter and the flu season are fast approaching. With the chill also comes the choice of whether or not to get the flu vaccine. Many factors go into this decision: religious beliefs, philosophical ...
Hello, readers! I hadn’t expected to write about abortion this week, but after the Supreme Court dismissed Cline v. Oklahoma Coalition for Reproductive Justice, I felt that I should probably step in and do some explaining. The case was originally ...
Hello, readers! I hadn’t expected to write about abortion this week, but after the Supreme Court dismissed Cline v. Oklahoma Coalition for Reproductive Justice, I felt that I should probably step in and do some explaining. The case was originally ...
Hello, readers. I’d like to wish you all a Happy Return of the Supreme Court, the same way that one might wish a friend Happy Thanksgiving or Happy Hanukkah—it’s just that important to me. I’d also like to wish you all a Happy Antonin Sca...
Hello, readers. I’d like to wish you all a Happy Return of the Supreme Court, the same way that one might wish a friend Happy Thanksgiving or Happy Hanukkah—it’s just that important to me. I’d also like to wish you all a Happy Antonin Sca...