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AI’s Unethical Underbelly
Countless artificial intelligence (AI) platforms make use of content moderation filters to prevent harmful and inappropriate output from...
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May 3, 20235 min read


Parenthood for Sale
Support for adoption transcends bipartisan politics. It is reflected in our popular culture, from Juno to The Blind Side. For the average...
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Apr 23, 20235 min read


Stagnating Progress in Racial Diversity of Cultural Resource Management
Heritage does not exist in a vacuum. Rather, it is carefully mediated by a billion-dollar industry that employs professionals with...
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Apr 22, 20235 min read


Big Tech’s Role in Protecting Human Rights: An Interview with Malika Saada Saar
Malika Saada Saar ’92 is a human rights lawyer currently serving as YouTube’s Global Head of Human Rights who previously served as...
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Mar 20, 20233 min read


Soccer Offers a Shot at a Bigger Goal
The ball snakes from left to right, slicing across the glossy gym floor as our opponents close in on the goal. With five minutes left in...
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Mar 14, 20236 min read


Subverting Dominant Narratives about Early Christianity: An Interview with Georgia Frank
Georgia Frank is the Charles A. Dana Professor of Religion at Colgate University. She is a specialist in early Christianity, especially...
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Mar 7, 20239 min read


Singing Truth – BPR Interviews: Pauline Jean
Pauline Jean is an internationally acclaimed Haitian American singer, songwriter, and composer who has performed everywhere from Moscow’s...
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Aug 6, 202011 min read


Sex, Death, and Other People’s Money – BPR Interviews: Copyslut
Copyslut is a band and artists’ collective who have been creating sex-magic, catharsis, and healing vibes since 2017. Also sex-positive...
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Jul 17, 202015 min read


Nail Salons: Polishing Over a Chipped Foundation
Anatomy of a nail salon: aromatic chemicals circulate in small rooms. Gleaming rows of nail polish bottles stretch in rainbows along the...
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May 21, 20205 min read


Those Were the Days – BPR Interviews: Norman Lear
Norman Lear is a writer, producer, and political activist best known for sitcoms All in the Family, The Jeffersons, One Day at a Time,...
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May 15, 20205 min read


BPR Interviews: Seal
Seal Henry Olusegun Olumide Adeola Samuel, best known by his mononym Seal, is a singer and songwriter. Born in the United Kingdom and of...
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May 8, 202014 min read


BPR Interviews: Larry Charles
Larry Charles is a comedian, screenwriter, director, and producer whose directorial credits include Borat, Bruno, and The Dictator...
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Mar 24, 202014 min read


The Woke: The Elitist
The divide in America today — which we constantly see, hear, feel, and fear — is illustrated and perpetuated in part through “PC...
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Nov 13, 20195 min read


The Asthma Epidemic Isn’t Over
In recent years, the startling public health trend once dubbed “The Asthma Epidemic” has been tentatively leveling off. With fewer cases...
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Nov 13, 20194 min read


Amazon’s Un-Scrutinized Monopolistic Practices
In August 2017, Amazon purchased Whole Foods for $13.7 billion with a “vision of making Whole Foods Market’s high-quality, natural and...
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Nov 13, 20195 min read


Alexa, Am I Dying?
Amazon’s Alexa has reshaped how millions of American consumers live and behave at home. We might think of Alexa as that robot we yell at...
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May 28, 20196 min read


Beyond Rain Main: Diversifying Autism On Screen
While there is still a long way to go in terms of positive representation of autism in entertainment media, a select few fictional...
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Apr 30, 20193 min read


All-Girl Schools: A Solution to Representation in STEM
Women now comprise a larger portion of college students than men, in part a reflection of their superior high-school grades. Yet, as one...
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Apr 29, 20194 min read


The State-Sponsored Disappearance of Muslim Minorities in China
Top American officials are standing idly by while an authoritarian country, once again, is attempting to eradicate a religious minority...
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Apr 26, 20195 min read


Networked Realities of Portraits: Policing through Online Databases
What happens when you are no longer the sole owner of your face? We live in a networked reality, meaning that the realities that dwell...
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Apr 22, 20196 min read
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