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The Topless Imperialists: FEMEN’s brand of feminism is silencing Muslim women
On September 13, in a town just north of Paris, two women jumped on stage at an Islamic convention about women and Islam. Once on stage,...
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Nov 6, 20155 min read


Jeremy Corbyn and the Shadowy Cabinet: Labour’s leadership team may be the undoing of its new
British politics are in a state of tumult. From the meteoric rise of the United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) to the unprecedented...
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Nov 6, 20156 min read


Culture, Incorporated: Private financing is undermining Brazil’s cultural autonomy
It’s hard to draw a line between Brazil’s arts institutions and the corporations that finance them. The Brazilian arts world depends on...
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Nov 6, 20154 min read


An Inconvenient Excuse: The hidden agenda behind Turkey’s response to ISIL
In the beginning of September, the Turkish town of Cizre found itself in the midst of an armed conflict between Turkey and the Kurdistan...
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Nov 6, 20156 min read


An Export to Arms: Is China’s weapons trade as menacing as it seems?
The weapons arrived in crates marked “Norinco.” The rifles, grenades, and missile launchers were bought on credit — oil fields were the...
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Nov 6, 20157 min read


Insane Clown Problems: Discrimination against Juggalos is no laughing matter
In 2012, Scott Gandy walked into an Army recruitment office in North Carolina. Asked if he had any tattoos, Gandy revealed several large...
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Nov 6, 20154 min read


Magic Pool Bus: The rise of microtransit puts public transit access at a crossroads
Pleading with your neighborhood Uber driver to let you and your nine drunk friends into the back of their Honda Civic may soon be a thing...
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Nov 6, 20156 min read


Core Competency: What Other States Can Learn From Rhode Island’s Implementation of the Common
Common Core State Standards were designed to create common education standards — not common criticisms. But across the country, an...
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Nov 6, 20156 min read


Death on Demand: American right-to-die policy is in limbo
In the late 1980s, Dr. Timothy Quill ignited a national debate when he published an article describing his role in administering a lethal...
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Nov 6, 20154 min read


Chicago State of Mind: How CBT is changing lives in inner-city Chicago
Three weeks after the King College Prep band members performed at President Obama’s second inauguration, they were mourning the loss of a...
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Nov 6, 201511 min read


Birds, Bees, and IUDs: Why Colorado’s Successful Experiment with Long Term Contraception is Po
When something in politics sounds too good to be true, that’s probably because it is. But the Colorado Family Planning Initiative might...
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Nov 6, 20157 min read


BPR Interviews: John Hudak
John Hudak is a fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution. He is an expert in campaigns, elections and presidential...
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May 5, 20154 min read


BPR Interviews: Andrew Ross
Andrew Ross is a professor of social and cultural analysis at New York University and the author or editor of more than 20 books,...
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May 5, 20154 min read


BPR Interviews: Ivan Watson
Ivan Watson ‘97 is the senior foreign correspondent for CNN in Hong Kong. He has reported on a broad scope of major global events,...
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May 5, 20154 min read


BPR Interviews: Thomas Tisch
Thomas Tisch ’76 is the Chancellor of the Corporation of Brown University and a partner at Four Partners, a private investment firm in...
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May 5, 20158 min read


BPR Interviews: Rachel Lloyd
Rachel Lloyd is the founder and CEO of Girls Educational and Mentoring Services, an organization that works with survivors of commercial...
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May 5, 20154 min read


BPR Interviews: Stewart Baker
Stewart Baker was the first Assistant Secretary for Policy at the Department of Homeland Security under President George W. Bush and the...
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May 5, 20154 min read


Pressing For Transparency: Mexicoleaks threatens to blow the whistle
From a country dripping with corruption has come Mexicoleaks, a media platform that seeks to engage Mexicans in the safeguarding of their...
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May 4, 20154 min read


Are Judicial Elections Good Policy?
Voting for Justice Story by Alex Floyd In 2009, judicial elections came under assault when the Supreme Court ruled in Caperton v. Massey...
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May 2, 20156 min read


Guns, Germs and Safaris
Today the Jarawa tribe, one of five indigenous groups native to the Andaman Islands in the Bay of Bengal, has only 400 surviving members....
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May 2, 20154 min read
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