On September 21, 2015, the world watched the inaugural trip of sub-Saharan Africa’s first urban light rail system — and if they didn’t,...

Former US Ambassador and Co-Chair of US China Policy Foundation Chas Freeman speaks at the Foreign Policy Panel at the Brown China Summit...

Martin Shkreli has received extensive coverage for raising the price of a medication for HIV overnight, but he’s only a symptom of a...

Apart from its romanticization in The West Wing, political speechwriting in the United States gets little public attention. The ghost...

BPR is covering the lecture by Ambassador Chas Freeman on the ability of America to shape international politics, and how that has...

Three weeks after the King College Prep band members performed at President Obama’s second inauguration, they were mourning the loss of a...

A single figure disproportionately determines the tone and direction of political activity from Capitol Hill to Brussels, and that figure...

For a generation that has been disappointed one too many times by the promise of participatory democracy to anticipate any real change,...

Lalla Essaydi’s photographic art depicting Arab women emerges from a simple yet powerful idea for the image: women, their clothing, their...

Despite widespread conversations on racial identity and discrimination on college campuses, one particular struggle students face often...

Over one year has passed since Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez passed away, leaving behind one of the richest and most beloved...

Computer science (CS) is the most popular major at Stanford University, yet female students make up only 12 percent of the program. It is...

What do George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, Alexander Hamilton, Andrew Jackson, Ulysses S. Grant, Benjamin Franklin,...

There’s something strange happening in a small California town called Montecito. This luxurious, beachside suburb of LA, home to...

Two years ago, the United States and the European Union made headlines by announcing new projects to advance the field of neuroscience...

On March 31, the Shibuya ward in Tokyo became the first district in Japan to recognize same-sex marriage. The Shibuya district will now...

In Cuba, the journey to implement public music education has paralleled the country’s battle for compulsory education, and nationhood...

Saif-ul-Malook lives his life with two security guards and a constant fear of death. He receives threats daily and has spent weeks in the...

Last month, Maldivian ex-President Mohamed Nasheed was sentenced to 13 years prison under charges of “terrorism.” More specifically, the...

BuzzFeed brought some incredibly important journalism to the world this spring—they ran the numbers on how much money Joey owed Chandler...