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You Don’t Know What’s Best: The Overuse of Poverty Porn
The Better World by Design conference, an annual gathering of Brown and RISD students, community members, and designers of all varieties...
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Oct 28, 20134 min read


Demystifying the Hermit Kingdom: Eight Days in North Korea
A wispy layer of fog lay over seemingly endless rice paddies in the valley where Pyongyang Sunan International Airport is situated. Air...
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Oct 25, 20136 min read


Watch the Brown Alumni Media Panel
BPR sponsored a panel of alumni journalists to discuss “Investigative Journalism in the Age of Polarization (and Misinformation).”...
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Oct 24, 20131 min read


One Rio, Two Brazils
Brazil has always been a country of contradictions. Perhaps no place is more indicative of this than Rio de Janeiro, a city where the...
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Oct 22, 20135 min read


Victim-Blaming, From Maryville to a College Near You
I wasn’t inclined to like Emily Yoffe’s recent Slate column, entitled “College Women: Stop Getting Drunk.” (No one gets between me and my...
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Oct 22, 20134 min read
The Perilous State of Colombian Peace Talks
Guerilla warfare has been a defining characteristic of modern Latin American history. The cult of the freedom fighter has been present...
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Oct 21, 20133 min read


Druckenmiller and Canada on the Next Generation’s Growing Debt Burden
In light of this month’s budget and debt ceiling fiascos, a recent event hosted by Brown’s Common Sense Action (and co-sponsored by yours...
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Oct 19, 20132 min read


In Response: Thoughts on Catalan Independence
Editor’s note: Last week, BPR Online had the pleasure of publishing two pieces on the Catalan independence movement, written by guest...
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Oct 16, 20134 min read


The Supply-Side Fallacy: Women, Entrepreneurship, and Catering to the Real Audience
Twitter, my preferred source for weird Pokémon quotes, Marxist sex tips, and pictures of baby animals, made headlines last week for...
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Oct 15, 20134 min read


What if Voting Were Mandatory?
This past Tuesday, my beloved Greensboro, North Carolina had its nonpartisan municipal primary. For all the campaigning and tweeting and...
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Oct 14, 20132 min read


Awakening Old Dreams
Editor’s note: This week, BPR World is excited to feature two guest columnists weighing in on a pressing global issue — the persistence...
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Oct 12, 20134 min read


Janet Yellen ’67 Nominated to Head Federal Reserve
President Obama will officially nominate Janet Yellen, Brown class of ’67, for chairwoman of the Federal Reserve this coming Wednesday....
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Oct 11, 20134 min read


Addressing Catalangst
Editor’s note: This week, BPR Global is excited to feature two guest columnists weighing in on a pressing global issue — the persistence...
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Oct 9, 20134 min read


What Miley Cyrus Says About Us
Here we are, a month removed from the VMA performance that shook a nation. Before Miley Cyrus did her infamous phallic-foam-finger dance,...
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Oct 8, 20133 min read


I Remember My First Deconstruction of Campaign Finance Law
As Lena has been covering the notable Supreme Court decisions of this past summer, I figured it would be instructive to preview one of...
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Oct 4, 20134 min read


Federalism: A Frontier for Liberals
October is proving to be an exciting month for congressional spectators. In several weeks Congress will vote on raising the debt ceiling,...
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Oct 3, 20134 min read


Brown Students Respond To Nudity and Fox News
On Wednesday Oct, 2nd, Jesse Watters, the same reporter from Fox News that snuck in and filmed students (including those under 18) naked...
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Oct 3, 20131 min read


Millenials, Manning, and the Selfie Problem of the New Political Age
Manning Selfie: The propaganda machines of any given election cycle cannot begin to compete with the nuance and depth of your typical...
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Oct 3, 20135 min read


Shutting Down the Conscience Clause
In a move that surprises no one ever, House Republicans added a last minute measure to the spending bill before the government shutdown...
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Oct 2, 20133 min read


It’s September, Get Informed: Title VII Shenanigans
Well, readers, we’ve reached that point—the air is cooling, the Autumnal Equinox has come and gone, and the calendar reads October. These...
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Oct 2, 20136 min read
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