Reid Pauly is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Brown University and the Dean’s Assistant Professor of Nuclear Security and...

Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite was the first South Korean film to be awarded the Palme d’Or. The film uncovers the South Korean class struggle...

Countless artificial intelligence (AI) platforms make use of content moderation filters to prevent harmful and inappropriate output from...

This is the third installment of Housing as a Human Right, a BPR interview series on the housing crisis in Rhode Island. Megan Smith is a...

Last year, Governor Bill Lee unveiled a plan for Hillsdale College, a small conservative college in Michigan, to open up to 50 charter...

In December 2015, Donald Trump called for “a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States.” Once president, he would...

For the past decade, progressive discourse around sex work has revolved around which comprehensive national legal...

After trying and failing to receive protection from staff, Keith DeBlasio was raped in prison multiple times by a fellow inmate. Although...

It was only a few months ago that I first braved Spaghetti Junction, a rite of passage for all Georgia drivers. Officially named the Tom...

The South African government has a longstanding history of HIV denialism. Throughout his presidency from 1999 to 2008, Thabo Mbeki...

Countless advertisements from the mid-20th century promoted moving to the suburbs. Posters and magazine layouts declared the value of...

“What happens to a country without land? Where will we call home?” Such are the considerations facing Tuvalu, a small island nation in...

The first Russian to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, Ivan Bunin, was unable to do so as a proud representative of his country....

On June 17, 1972, in Washington, D.C., five men broke into the Democratic National Party headquarters in the Watergate Hotel. What seemed...

“One’s body is inviolable, subject to one’s own will alone. Beliefs should conform to one’s best scientific understanding of the world....

The first recorded instance of a political sex strike—when women actively withhold sex from men as a temporary means of political...

As cities worldwide emerge from the social and economic devastation wrought by the coronavirus pandemic, urban planners have discovered a...

Luben is a satiric channel that posts videos, articles, and memes that mock Greek public life, including reality TV, news fails,...

In January 2023, New York State Governor Kathy Hochul announced that the Interborough Express—a future New York City transit line that...

India, the world’s largest democracy, seems to be slowly but surely falling into a state of restricted freedom under the control of the...