An archival recollection of the Chinatown that once stood in downtown Providence, this short documentary traces how a community grew, lived, and receded. This video would not have been possible without the extensive support of Yuanyuan (Angela) Feng,...
A flip of blonde hair. A flash of bright blue eyes. With this grounding imagery, the camera pans slowly across her body, and then an abrupt order—“Hey! Eyes up here!” The camera sharply jerks up to encounter actress Sydney Sweeney. She smiles a...
President Donald Trump came to power with “Make America Great Again” as his central slogan. It is a rhetorical move that is premised on a past of greatness. America’s past, however, was not great for many groups. For Indigenous people and Black...
United States Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) was elected as the junior senator from Illinois on November 8, 2016. A former US Army helicopter pilot, she lost both legs and partial use of her right arm while leading a combat mission during Operation I...
United States Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) was elected as the junior senator from Illinois on November 8, 2016. A former US Army helicopter pilot, she lost both legs and partial use of her right arm while leading a combat mission during Operation I...
This article was produced in part with the financial support of the Stone Inequality Initiative. Brown Political Review maintains editorial independence over all articles published. Between the colonial period and the 19th century, gambling expanded ...
This article was produced in part with the financial support of the Stone Inequality Initiative. Brown Political Review maintains editorial independence over all articles published. Between the colonial period and the 19th century, gambling expanded ...
The defamation trial between formerly married actors Johnny Depp and Amber Heard was the media’s defining event in the six week period between April 11 to June 1, 2022. The catalyst for the trial was an oblique reference to intimate partner violenc...
The defamation trial between formerly married actors Johnny Depp and Amber Heard was the media’s defining event in the six week period between April 11 to June 1, 2022. The catalyst for the trial was an oblique reference to intimate partner violenc...
Crime and punishment: ideas central to human society that have long been debated by philosophers, academics, and politicians. We might believe that decisions about who gets punished, and for what, are ones rooted in fact and fairness, but history has...
Crime and punishment: ideas central to human society that have long been debated by philosophers, academics, and politicians. We might believe that decisions about who gets punished, and for what, are ones rooted in fact and fairness, but history has...
This article was produced in part with the financial support of the Stone Inequality Initiative. Brown Political Review maintains editorial independence over all articles published. Walking down the aisles of a grocery store, you are met with an illu...
This article was produced in part with the financial support of the Stone Inequality Initiative. Brown Political Review maintains editorial independence over all articles published. Walking down the aisles of a grocery store, you are met with an illu...
In June 2023, the Oklahoma Statewide Virtual Charter School Board approved an application for St. Isidore of Seville, the nation’s first publicly funded religious charter school. The Republican Governor of Oklahoma, Kevin Stitt, was quick to praise...
In June 2023, the Oklahoma Statewide Virtual Charter School Board approved an application for St. Isidore of Seville, the nation’s first publicly funded religious charter school. The Republican Governor of Oklahoma, Kevin Stitt, was quick to praise...
President Ronald Reagan, embodying the traditional conservative ideology of federalism, stated: “All of us need to be reminded that the Federal Government did not create the States; the States created the Federal Government.” But amidst the rubbl...
President Ronald Reagan, embodying the traditional conservative ideology of federalism, stated: “All of us need to be reminded that the Federal Government did not create the States; the States created the Federal Government.” But amidst the rubbl...
“She seemed some sort of genetic anomaly, a combination of every positive quality a human being should have: bright, hardworking, tall, and beautiful”—this is how Vice President JD Vance recalls meeting his wife, Usha Vance, for the first time ...
“She seemed some sort of genetic anomaly, a combination of every positive quality a human being should have: bright, hardworking, tall, and beautiful”—this is how Vice President JD Vance recalls meeting his wife, Usha Vance, for the first time ...
“If the law says that any man, if he chooses, can enter a women’s restroom…and stay there, and he cannot be removed because he simply says at that moment he feels like a woman, you’re opening the door for predators.” This argument, offered ...
“If the law says that any man, if he chooses, can enter a women’s restroom…and stay there, and he cannot be removed because he simply says at that moment he feels like a woman, you’re opening the door for predators.” This argument, offered ...
Anyone who has driven through the Midwest, pumped gas into their car, or looked at the list of unpronounceable ingredients on their bag of chips likely has some sense that corn is omnipresent in America. You cannot escape it. The United States is the...
Anyone who has driven through the Midwest, pumped gas into their car, or looked at the list of unpronounceable ingredients on their bag of chips likely has some sense that corn is omnipresent in America. You cannot escape it. The United States is the...
The 14th Amendment of the Constitution declares that no state shall “deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.” The language is plain and simple—a conscious choice for a country still reeling from a bloody civ...
The 14th Amendment of the Constitution declares that no state shall “deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.” The language is plain and simple—a conscious choice for a country still reeling from a bloody civ...
Paint me a picture of anguish. Tell me a story of hurt. Make it aching… agonizing. Let it scintillate with tortured tears and sing with cries of pain. Let it reverberate in darkness and bleed through curtains of silence. Let it corrupt innocence, p...
Paint me a picture of anguish. Tell me a story of hurt. Make it aching… agonizing. Let it scintillate with tortured tears and sing with cries of pain. Let it reverberate in darkness and bleed through curtains of silence. Let it corrupt innocence, p...