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BPR Interview: Green Party Presidential Candidate Jill Stein
BPR’s Henry Knight sat down with the Green Party Presidential candidate Jill Stein. Photo courtesy flickr, by Paul Stein. Used under the...
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Nov 4, 201211 min read


BPR Interview: Libertarian Vice Presidential Candidate Jim Gray
BPR talked to Jim Gray, the Vice Presidential Nominee on the Libertarian ticket for the 2012 election and a former judge on California’s...
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Nov 4, 20128 min read


The Bundes of the Bank
In my last eurocrisis rant I argued three changes were necessary for the EU to begin crawling its way out of the hole it has dug itself...
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Nov 3, 20123 min read


BPR Interview: Talking Points Memo Editor Josh Marshall
Brown alumnus Josh Marshall is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of Talking Points Memo (TPM), an independent online news and commentary...
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Nov 1, 20125 min read


Voting Rights and Representation in the Ocean State
The Dorr Rebellion. Image obtained from Wikimedia Commons. Just this month, several members of the Cranston Board of Canvassers resigned...
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Oct 31, 20123 min read


What’s the Deal with DOMA (and the Supreme Court)?
On October 18, a federal appeals court in Manhattan (the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals) struck down in a 2-1 decision the 1996...
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Oct 31, 20125 min read


The Morsi Code
Though the news out of the Middle East last week was dominated by the shocking car bombing in Beirut, the region also witnessed the...
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Oct 29, 20123 min read


We the Polarized People…
As Election Day approaches, it’s easy to despair that we live in an era of unprecedented political polarization. But take heart: this is...
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Oct 29, 20124 min read


Tiberius Gracchus: The System Isn’t That Broken
As some devoted followers of this column may have noticed, last week I was unable to write an article due to the massive amount of stress...
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Oct 27, 20125 min read


Thinking Against the Memes
A recent post at The New Inquiry does a commendable job of pinning down the strange political vantage point that is inhabited by the...
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Oct 26, 20121 min read
Peugeot-Citroën PSA Bailout to Schumpeter’s Dismay
Yesterday, the French government signed a deal to provide Peugeot-Citroën, Europe’s second largest automaker, with €7 billion (or $9...
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Oct 26, 20122 min read


Hello, Sunshine. Hello, Rain.
Image obtained from Wikipedia. As is traditional in an election year, most of the normal legislative agenda has been suspended in favor...
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Oct 25, 20123 min read


Brown Political Review Inaugural Issue: The Choice 2012
The first issue of Brown Political Review is in newsstands near you! Click here to read a pdf version of the magazine.
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Oct 23, 20121 min read


Why the Third-Party Presidential Debate is Worth Watching
We’ve already bemoaned the superficiality and exclusiveness of American presidential debates, but most American voters probably think...
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Oct 23, 20123 min read


A Binder Full of Facts: Understanding Pay Equity
We like to criticize the media for latching on to political gaffes, but we, the people of the Internet, clearly enjoy a good campaign...
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Oct 22, 20124 min read


BPR Interview: Citizens Lab Director Ronald Deibert
BPR interviewed Ronald Deibert, director of Citizens Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto, an...
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Oct 21, 20124 min read


Austerity, Objectivity, and Amtrak
Lately, the degree to which discourses of “objectivity” have dominated our political theatre is astounding. Everywhere one turns, he or...
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Oct 21, 20124 min read


Thoughts on the Peace Prize
Europe has not experienced a major war in the last six decades. Today a European civil war, with the ensuing international spillover, is...
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Oct 20, 20122 min read


His Holiness and State Violence: Why the Dalai Lama Should Be a Libertarian
The jury’s still out on whether or not His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet ended his speech to a capacity crowd at the RI...
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Oct 19, 20124 min read


Bad Neighbors
Last week, I wrote about how the Western media focuses disproportionately on negative news out of the Middle East, drawing attention to...
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Oct 19, 20123 min read
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