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Obama’s Cowardly Embrace of the War on Terror
Last week, President Obama signed the 2013 National Defense Authorization Act. Last year’s edition of the act contained language allowing...
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Jan 7, 20133 min read


The Perfect End to “Starve the Beast”
Editor’s Note: The following guest column comes to us from Graham Sheridan, master of public affairs candidate at Brown University’s...
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Dec 28, 20123 min read


NRO: Not Outrageous, Inaccurate
Now nearly one week later, nothing needs to be added about Sandy Hook. But for those who haven’t followed, National Review yesterday...
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Dec 20, 20121 min read


What Does Broccoli Have to Do With Health Care? A Commerce Clause Justification
The Supreme Court’s ruling on the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA)’s so-called individual...
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Dec 20, 20128 min read


Brown Divest Coal: A Lump of Coal for Christmas
by Henry Knight and Will Serratelli Santa is stuffing Brown’s stocking with coal this Christmas—unless the University agrees to the...
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Dec 20, 20123 min read


Is Gun Control the Answer? Maybe, But Do It Anyway
Image by Winnerslay It’s not clear that gun control could have prevented the killing of 20 children and 7 adults in Newtown, Connecticut...
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Dec 18, 20124 min read


BPR Podcast: Vol. 1, Segment 5: Affirmative Action
On this week’s podcast, Oliver and Michael join Jarrett to discuss whether affirmative action is an effective tool to create diversity on...
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Dec 17, 20121 min read


BPR Podcast: Vol. 1, Segment 4: Education Policy (Part 2)
For this week’s BPR podcast, Oliver Hudson and Michael D’Ortenzio joined Jarrett Key to continue our discussion on Education Policy....
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Dec 17, 20121 min read


Under the Radar Lies the Deadliest Gun Loophole
Before I say anything about guns, or politics, or the NRA, or anything, I have to ask you to take a moment and think about what happened...
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Dec 16, 20126 min read


Coal-ition for Christmas
Earlier this week, President Obama officially recognized the National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces, the...
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Dec 15, 20124 min read


Breeze of Britain’s ‘Brexit’
Fears of ‘Grexit’ has yet to wane, but the press is talking about another country’s possible retreat from the EU—Britain. The Economist...
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Dec 11, 20123 min read


Cliffmas Gifts: Can Obama Lose?
Maybe eternal optimism dies hard after an election. But does anyone get the sense that the left is way less freaked out about the Fiscal...
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Dec 10, 20123 min read


The Role of the Courts in RI Pension Reform
Rhode Island Supreme Court Building (by chensiyuan) Harvard Law School professor Noah Feldman wrote an interesting article last week in...
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Dec 10, 20122 min read


Show me the Monnet: the Faces of Europe
New euro Bills are set to enter circulation in May 2013. Instead of the now familiar imaginary architecture, these bills will feature “a...
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Dec 7, 20123 min read


SNAP – It’s not just about the vegetables.
This week, Newark Mayor Cory Booker is doing something that millions of people have done before – he is living on a food stamp budget. Of...
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Dec 5, 20122 min read


Who’s Next? (No, Not The Who’s Fifth Studio Album.)
Hello, readers! Just in case you’ve forgotten, the disaster formerly known as Election 2012 is now over, and President Barack Obama has...
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Dec 5, 20124 min read


The Clinton Comeback
“The Comeback Kid.” Such was President Bill Clinton’s self-branded title following the 1992 New Hampshire presidential primary. It was a...
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Dec 4, 20122 min read


Take From the Young, Give to the Old
Roosevelt signs the Social Security Act (from Wikimedia Commons) I’ve come to view Paul Krugman as belligerent and repetitive, but he’s...
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Dec 3, 20123 min read


Taxes as Violence? No
A weak form of this argument appears in Oliver Hudson’s article for the Brown Daily Herald, “Universal Suffrage is Immoral.” It appears...
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Dec 3, 20125 min read


Give Up The Goods!
I would like to introduce BPR’s newest online column, entitled Give Up The Goods. Give Up The Goods is anchored around the premise that...
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Dec 3, 20122 min read
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