Putting on a pair of glasses should not be enough to identify a stranger, pull up their home address, and turn a chance encounter into a data profile. But in 2024, two Harvard students did exactly that. Using Meta’s Ray-Ban smart glasses, the facia...
Tropical forests are one of our most crucial defenses against climate change, but they are disappearing at an alarming rate. A record 6.7 million hectares of rainforest were lost in 2024, largely due to agriculture and human-caused wildfires—result...
Picture this: You are freshly 16 years old, zooming down the New Jersey Turnpike with music blasting at 2 AM, hitting 103 miles per hour like it is nothing. The feeling is nipped by the glare of flashing blue lights. Panic does not set in, however, b...
When Donald Trump found out that the White House was hosting Chinese President Xi Jinping for a state dinner, he decided he should contribute his opinion. “I would not be throwing him a dinner,” he stated, “I’d get him a McDonald’s hamburg...
When Donald Trump found out that the White House was hosting Chinese President Xi Jinping for a state dinner, he decided he should contribute his opinion. “I would not be throwing him a dinner,” he stated, “I’d get him a McDonald’s hamburg...
Lincoln Chafee ’75 served as a US Senator (1999-2007) and the 74th Governor of Rhode Island Brown Political Review: Starting with your personal background, you worked as a professional farrier for 7 years before entering Rhode Island st...
Lincoln Chafee ’75 served as a US Senator (1999-2007) and the 74th Governor of Rhode Island Brown Political Review: Starting with your personal background, you worked as a professional farrier for 7 years before entering Rhode Island st...
Nearly three times as many Americans per year are dying from overdoses on painkillers and prescription drugs today than in 2001. Over the 14-year time period, heroin-related deaths have increased fivefold. But the American drug problem doesn’t sto...
Nearly three times as many Americans per year are dying from overdoses on painkillers and prescription drugs today than in 2001. Over the 14-year time period, heroin-related deaths have increased fivefold. But the American drug problem doesn’t sto...
Despite the presidential political fervor of the last few months, one thing has been surprisingly absent from the spotlight: politicians. It’s no secret that Americans don’t love politicians. Americans are dissatisfied with the political proce...
Despite the presidential political fervor of the last few months, one thing has been surprisingly absent from the spotlight: politicians. It’s no secret that Americans don’t love politicians. Americans are dissatisfied with the political proce...
Unless you have been completely removed from American political discourse and the news media, for the last few weeks, you have surely heard the name Kim Davis, the Kentucky county clerk whose unlawful and indignant refusal to issue marriage licenses ...
Unless you have been completely removed from American political discourse and the news media, for the last few weeks, you have surely heard the name Kim Davis, the Kentucky county clerk whose unlawful and indignant refusal to issue marriage licenses ...
Scheduled to take effect in less than three years, the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) so-called “Cadillac tax” is one of the most hotly-debated healthcare issues among presidential hopefuls and legislators alike. Yet media coverage is slim com...
Scheduled to take effect in less than three years, the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) so-called “Cadillac tax” is one of the most hotly-debated healthcare issues among presidential hopefuls and legislators alike. Yet media coverage is slim com...
As the presidential primary schedule rumbles to life, Republican candidates are looking to the South to give themselves a leg up. In recent memory, the South has been taken for granted as a particularly dark shade of red, prone to being overlooked by...
As the presidential primary schedule rumbles to life, Republican candidates are looking to the South to give themselves a leg up. In recent memory, the South has been taken for granted as a particularly dark shade of red, prone to being overlooked by...
Twenty-three million people watched the primetime GOP debate in mid-September — a record for CNN as the most watched program in its history. Given the pervasive dialogue surrounding political apathy, low voter turnout, and a collective frustration ...
Twenty-three million people watched the primetime GOP debate in mid-September — a record for CNN as the most watched program in its history. Given the pervasive dialogue surrounding political apathy, low voter turnout, and a collective frustration ...
It has already been over seven months since the 2016 campaign trail began winding its way through Iowa and New Hampshire, but a long road remains for the candidates. The first primaries are still months ahead, and Election Day is more than a year out...
It has already been over seven months since the 2016 campaign trail began winding its way through Iowa and New Hampshire, but a long road remains for the candidates. The first primaries are still months ahead, and Election Day is more than a year out...
Donald Trump does not seem quite real. With his seemingly endless stream of offensive quotes, egregious wealth, and frankly ridiculous haircut he appears more like a cartoon or a sitcom character than someone who might one day sit in the White House....
Donald Trump does not seem quite real. With his seemingly endless stream of offensive quotes, egregious wealth, and frankly ridiculous haircut he appears more like a cartoon or a sitcom character than someone who might one day sit in the White House....
The U.S. spends more on defense than the next seven nations combined. Yet military spending, as a percentage of GDP, is the lowest it has been in fifty years; and is only one-fifth what we spend on entitlements and debt service. Many policymakers wor...
The U.S. spends more on defense than the next seven nations combined. Yet military spending, as a percentage of GDP, is the lowest it has been in fifty years; and is only one-fifth what we spend on entitlements and debt service. Many policymakers wor...
This article was written in response to the Political Theory Project’s Constitution Day lecture on The Right to Face Your Accuser: Child Abuse and the Sixth Amendment. Should courts treat a child’s testimony the same way they treat nonhuman e...
This article was written in response to the Political Theory Project’s Constitution Day lecture on The Right to Face Your Accuser: Child Abuse and the Sixth Amendment. Should courts treat a child’s testimony the same way they treat nonhuman e...