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...
Abu Anas al-Liby, U.S. Department of State Photo, Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain On Saturday evening, I found myself tailgating at Brown Stadium, lamenting aloud how much it would suck to go to URI. At some point, I looked down at my phone and saw ...
Abu Anas al-Liby, U.S. Department of State Photo, Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain On Saturday evening, I found myself tailgating at Brown Stadium, lamenting aloud how much it would suck to go to URI. At some point, I looked down at my phone and saw ...
While it was an issue that originally flared up some months ago, the controversy surrounding the appointment of Janet Napolitano, ex-Secretary of Homeland Security and Governor of Arizona, as the new president of the public University of California (...
While it was an issue that originally flared up some months ago, the controversy surrounding the appointment of Janet Napolitano, ex-Secretary of Homeland Security and Governor of Arizona, as the new president of the public University of California (...
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...
There are probably not very many issues on which Oklahoma Senator Tom Coburn and I see eye-to-eye. If you look at his website, he definitely lies to the right of this author. However, when I came upon this article in Bloomberg, I thought, “Tom Cobu...
There are probably not very many issues on which Oklahoma Senator Tom Coburn and I see eye-to-eye. If you look at his website, he definitely lies to the right of this author. However, when I came upon this article in Bloomberg, I thought, “Tom Cobu...
Warning: Contains Breaking Bad Spoilers For those of us that watched Breaking Bad, the recent bust of the Silk Road online illicit trading network seems like a bit of déjà vu. The similarities between the AMC show’s shady underworld and the illic...
Warning: Contains Breaking Bad Spoilers For those of us that watched Breaking Bad, the recent bust of the Silk Road online illicit trading network seems like a bit of déjà vu. The similarities between the AMC show’s shady underworld and the illic...
As Lena has been covering the notable Supreme Court decisions of this past summer, I figured it would be instructive to preview one of this fall’s most significant cases. Next Tuesday, the justices will once again take up campaign finance law when ...
As Lena has been covering the notable Supreme Court decisions of this past summer, I figured it would be instructive to preview one of this fall’s most significant cases. Next Tuesday, the justices will once again take up campaign finance law when ...
October is proving to be an exciting month for congressional spectators. In several weeks Congress will vote on raising the debt ceiling, in the process Republicans will try to finagle spending concessions out of federal programs dear to Democrats. B...
October is proving to be an exciting month for congressional spectators. In several weeks Congress will vote on raising the debt ceiling, in the process Republicans will try to finagle spending concessions out of federal programs dear to Democrats. B...
Well, readers, we’ve reached that point—the air is cooling, the Autumnal Equinox has come and gone, and the calendar reads October. These facts indicate that my month of Supreme Court Summarizing has come to a close, and starting very soon, the C...
Well, readers, we’ve reached that point—the air is cooling, the Autumnal Equinox has come and gone, and the calendar reads October. These facts indicate that my month of Supreme Court Summarizing has come to a close, and starting very soon, the C...
So much has been written recently about America’s 113th Congress. More specifically, so much has been written about a government shutdown, the product of an eerie mixture of Tea Party fringism and potential political suicide on behalf of the Americ...
So much has been written recently about America’s 113th Congress. More specifically, so much has been written about a government shutdown, the product of an eerie mixture of Tea Party fringism and potential political suicide on behalf of the Americ...
Esquire’s Charles Pierce recently wrote a post about our nation’s obsession with destiny and history. He charges us to count how often pundits use hyperbolic language, calling everything “unprecedented” “historic” or “game-changing.” ...
Esquire’s Charles Pierce recently wrote a post about our nation’s obsession with destiny and history. He charges us to count how often pundits use hyperbolic language, calling everything “unprecedented” “historic” or “game-changing.” ...
“Drunk people ran it better!” Or as Jack Sparrow might have said, “Where has all the bipartisanship and cross-party cooperation gone?” It may be the law not to drive under the influence, but according to comedian Lewis Black, such laws only g...
“Drunk people ran it better!” Or as Jack Sparrow might have said, “Where has all the bipartisanship and cross-party cooperation gone?” It may be the law not to drive under the influence, but according to comedian Lewis Black, such laws only g...
“It is the Chinese water torture of a series of mass shootings that are happening more rapidly and are growing more deadly.” Mayors Against Illegal Weapons director Mark Glaze used this grim analogy while commenting on the effect the Naval Yard s...
“It is the Chinese water torture of a series of mass shootings that are happening more rapidly and are growing more deadly.” Mayors Against Illegal Weapons director Mark Glaze used this grim analogy while commenting on the effect the Naval Yard s...