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BPR Interviews: Leslie Lewin
Leslie Lewin is the Executive Director of Seeds of Peace, a leadership development program founded in 1993 committed to developing mutual...
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Dec 16, 20166 min read
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BPR Interviews: Rui Maria de Araújo
Dr. Rui Maria de Araújo is the prime minister of Timor-Leste, a position he has held since 2015. A physician by training, he served as...
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Dec 16, 20163 min read
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BPR Interviews: Cynthia Enloe
Cynthia Enloe is a feminist international relations scholar in the Department of International Development, Community, and Environment at...
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Dec 16, 20164 min read
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BPR Interviews: Leah Daughtry
Reverend Leah Daughtry is a renowned activist, preacher, and political strategist. She has held positions in the US Department of Labor,...
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Dec 16, 20164 min read
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BPR Interviews: Tyler Cowen
Tyler Cowen is the Holbert L. Harris Professor of Economics at George Mason University, General Director of the Mercatus Center, and a...
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Dec 16, 20165 min read
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BPR Interviews: Ernest Moniz
Ernest Moniz is the current U. S. Secretary of Energy. He was unanimously confirmed to the position by the Senate in 2013. Moniz is an...
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Dec 16, 20165 min read
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Mr. 305: Miami Beach’s Questionable Climate Change Policy
Miami Beach has often styled itself as the perfect tourist destination by the ocean; a modern day Atlantis. But this comparison may soon...
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Dec 14, 20166 min read
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Down the Drain: Revising Cap-and-Trade for California
Facing incessant drought, cities across the state of California have been forced to consider every potential water-saving measure. But...
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Dec 14, 20167 min read
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Helmet Heroism: How the White Helmets’ heroism can’t escape politics
In 2016, the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos for his efforts in negotiating a peace deal that...
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Dec 14, 20166 min read
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No More Parties in LA: How City Regulations Stymie Progress
Tom Gores, the owner of the Detroit Pistons, recently shelled out $100 million for a 33,000-square-foot house in the Holmby Hills...
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Dec 14, 20167 min read
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BPR Interviews: Ha-Joon Chang
Dr. Ha-Joon Chang is currently a professor of Economics at the University of Cambridge. Born in 1960s South Korea, Chang used his humble...
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Nov 15, 20164 min read
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BPR Interviews: Werner Weidenfeld
Werner Weidenfeld is a German political scientist and served as the director of German-US relations for the German government. A...
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Nov 13, 20166 min read
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BPR Interviews: Jacob Soboroff
Jacob Soboroff is a political correspondent for MSNBC. He has covered elections since 2008, when he began interviewing presidential...
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Nov 13, 20164 min read
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BPR Interviews: Ben King
Ben King is the cofounder and outreach director of Amish PAC, a super PAC for conservative Amish voters in swing states such as...
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Nov 13, 20164 min read
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BPR Interviews: Anthony Foxx
Anthony Foxx is the current United States Secretary of Transportation. He was unanimously confirmed by the Senate in 2013. Secretary Foxx...
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Nov 13, 20165 min read
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BPR Interviews: Tamara Keith
Photo Credit: Caitlin Sanders, NPR. Tamara Keith is a White House correspondent for NPR and is currently covering the presidential...
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Nov 13, 20163 min read
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BPR Interviews: Dr. Joyce Banda
Dr. Joyce Banda served as the first female president of Malawi from 2012 to 2014 and founded the People’s Party in 2011. Prior to serving...
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Nov 13, 20165 min read
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Something’s Fishy: The flaw in the Buy America policy
Since tuna fish became a staple food for the Baby Boomer Generation, the tuna fish industry has enjoyed an outsized role in the American...
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Nov 6, 20164 min read
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Redrawing the Poverty Line: The most important statistic in America
Statistically speaking, the US government understands poverty about as well as Marie Antoinette did. For the last 60 years, the United...
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Nov 6, 20165 min read
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Preaching to the Choir: Does the IRS limit free speech?
The first day of a Trump presidency would include a seemingly mundane priority: asking Congress to change the language contained on an...
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Nov 6, 20169 min read
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