Last spring, I opened an article I’d written on America’s prison system with what I thought was a particularly jolting lead about a...

Warning: Contains Breaking Bad Spoilers For those of us that watched Breaking Bad, the recent bust of the Silk Road online illicit...

October is proving to be an exciting month for congressional spectators. In several weeks Congress will vote on raising the debt ceiling,...

Well, readers, we’ve reached that point—the air is cooling, the Autumnal Equinox has come and gone, and the calendar reads October. These...

“It is the Chinese water torture of a series of mass shootings that are happening more rapidly and are growing more deadly.” Mayors...

70-year-old Oscar Lopez Rivera. Source: 80 grados. Creative Commons In a previous article, I wrote about the case of Puerto Rican...

Last Tuesday, President Obama gave a national address from the East Room on the international crisis in Syria – taking, in the words of...

Oyez, oyez! Your second week of Supreme Court schooling is about to begin. For those of you who missed my explanation in last week’s...

Welcome back, readers, and happy September! Regardless of whether one is returning to school, fall seems to mark a turning point in the...

Bill Belichick often implores his players to “ignore the noise.” Unfortunately, the noise surrounding this summer’s disclosures about the...

It appears we have had two wartime technology questions in the last few months. Both have left me with the same question: Why does the...

On YouTube, Defense Distributed (DD) can seem like a troop of disgruntled teenagers. Their first uploaded video features the heavy,...

In Part I, BPR’s Lauren Sukin and Thomas Nath debated the legal underpinnings of the Zimmerman verdict and critiqued both the prosecutors...

In the past month, there have been a slew of prominent Supreme Court decisions covering such contentious topics as affirmative action,...

BPR’s Lauren Sukin and Thomas Nath spar over whether the Zimmerman decision is right, the implications of racial prejudice in the justice...

Louis C.K., responding to a question on the Daily Show about a Rolling Stone article, replied: “Well they put that kid on the cover that...

If recent memory is any testament, helplessness, rather than mere evil, seems to be at the heart of modern tragedy. Grief breeds an...

If you’re in college and you’re reading this, you probably know someone with an unpaid internship this summer. You might even have one...

Forgetting the Orwellian aspects of the NSA surveillance program (and you shouldn’t), this story has been pretty fun. Some have labeled...

In the last several months, members of some of Mexico’s most high-profile drug cartels have come to the city. Settling down among...