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BPR Interview: Dawn Smith
Dawn K. Smith is an epidemiologist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). In May, the CDC began recommending that men...
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Dec 22, 20144 min read


BPR Interview: Joe Scarborough
Joe Scarborough is a former lawyer and the current host of the popular political commentary news program Morning Joe on MSNBC. He was a...
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Dec 22, 20148 min read


BPR Interview: Sherrilyn Ifill
Sherrilyn Ifill is the seventh President of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund. She has served as a fellow at the ACLU and is...
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Nov 21, 20144 min read


BPR Interview: Hugh Clements
Hugh Clements became Providence’s 37th Chief of Police in 2012. Clements has received recognition for his service from the FBI and holds...
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Nov 21, 20144 min read


BPR Interview: Maen Rashid Areikat
Ambassador Maen Rashid Areikat currently serves as the chief of the Palestine Liberation Organization delegation to the United States....
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Nov 19, 20142 min read


BPR Interview: Dennis Ross
Dennis Ross has been a principal actor in US policy towards Israel and Palestine for decades. More recently, he was President Barack...
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Nov 19, 20142 min read


BPR Interview: Noam Chomsky
Noam Chomsky is a professor emeritus in the department of linguistics and philosophy at MIT. In 2005, Chomsky topped a list released by...
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Nov 19, 20144 min read


BPR Interview: Sheldon Whitehouse
Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) has been Rhode Island’s junior senator since 2007 and is the former Rhode Island attorney general. He serves on...
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Nov 18, 20144 min read


BPR Interview: Gina Raimondo
Gina Raimondo was elected to be Rhode Island’s next governor in the 2014 elections. She is the first Democrat to be elected to the...
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Nov 17, 20144 min read


BPR Interview: Allan Fung
Allan Fung was the Republican candidate for Rhode Island Governor. Fung has been Mayor of Cranston since 2009 and was the first Asian...
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Nov 17, 20144 min read


Professor Podcast: Cornelia Dean
BPR’s Madeleine Matsui sat down with Cornelia Dean ’69, Distinguished Visiting Lecturer in Environmental Studies and a science writer for...
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Oct 30, 20141 min read


Professor Podcasts: Nina Tannenwald
BPR’s Sabin Ray sat down with Professor Nina Tannenwald to analyze the legal implications in humanitarian law of the United States’...
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Oct 26, 20141 min read


BPR Interview: Dan Harrop
Dr. Dan Harrop ’76 MD ‘79 is the Republican candidate for Mayor of Providence. He serves as the Founding Chairman of the Rhode Island GOP...
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Oct 15, 20146 min read


BPR Interview: Buddy Cianci
Vincent Albert “Buddy” Cianci, Jr. was first elected as Mayor of Providence in 1974. After a total of 21 years in office over the course...
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Oct 15, 201412 min read


BPR Interview: Jorge Elorza
Jorge Elorza is the democratic candidate running for Mayor of Providence. A Providence native and graduate of Classical High School,...
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Oct 15, 20147 min read


BPR Interview: John Dennis
John Dennis is the Republican candidate for California’s twelfth Congressional district. Running on a libertarian platform, Dennis will...
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Aug 13, 201412 min read


Ask David Corn Anything (Full Series)
Inspired by The Dish, BPR invited its readers to submit questions for Mother Jones Washington Bureau Chief David Corn ’81. Check back...
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May 27, 20141 min read


BPR Interview: Amy Kremer
Amy Kremer was the chair of the Tea Party Express, a national group that supports the Tea Party movement and has been recognized as “one...
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May 16, 201410 min read


BPR Interview: Freeway Rick Ross
Freeway Rick Ross is a reformed drug kingpin who was released from jail in 2009. At the height of his operations in the 1980s, he grossed...
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May 12, 20148 min read


BPR Interview: Tim Gunn
Tim Gunn is a fashion consultant and television personality, and was the chair of the Department of Fashion Design at Parsons the New...
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May 7, 201411 min read
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