by José Francisco Muci Lander Four days after the announcement of President Hugo Chávez’s death on March 5, Tibisay Lucena, head of...

This week is a “holiday” at the Supreme Court, meaning the Justices don’t hear any cases and won’t release any decisions. Therefore,...

Photo Author’s Own Many cities with desperate downtowns are attempting to lure big business in by hook or crook.  The New York Times...

Last week, I wrote of the various problems that plague several of the BRIC nations, which include troubling and skewed demographics in...

What does mental illness have to do with guns? This piece examines the gun control debate in response to the Janus Forum ongoing...

There’s a saying that claims that if both sides of a debate are unhappy with you, you must be doing something right. President Obama, in...

Richard Blumenthal, senior United States Senator from Connecticut and a Democrat who has advocated for gun control legislation, talks to...

Christopher Cox, chief lobbyist for the National Rifle Association (NRA), talks to Brown Political Review’s Omar Ben Halim and Chris...

Brown Political Review’s Henry Knight sits down with Steven Rattner ’74. A New York Times Op-Ed contributor and recent author of...

by Albert Anderson For over 200 years the men of the United States Armed Forces have served in combat roles the world over. In the...

More on Argentina and “hotly contested” rocks. Only this time the topic is not news anymore, and it didn’t even capture the headlines...

On April 10th, President Obama will finally release his 2014 budget proposal. The budget has been delayed two months due to uncertainties...

There are times (for instance, when one is boarding a plane in Sicily and dreading the cold rain that will undoubtedly great her at the...

Hello, readers—let’s cut to the chase. Last week, on March 26 and 27, the Supreme Court heard two cases relating to same-sex marriage:...

Welcome back from spring break, Brunonians.  After a week at home reading the North Carolina papers, I came up with an NC issue to write...

“Families are always rising and falling in America,” Nathaniel Hawthorne observed, and the same is true of nations.  Their economies...

First, a disclosure: As part of a class I’m taking, I’m involved with Rhode Island Payday Lending Reform, the coalition whose cause I...

Despite the GOP’s established understanding of itself as a party with some serious diversity issues, Republicans are already coming out...

99 days. That’s how long it’s been since the Newtown massacre.  We know the gruesome numbers: twenty young children and seven teachers...

Having a rough semester? Providence weather got you down? Worried about job prospects, the dire state of your love life, your thesis...