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Providence Judge Defends Federal Surveillance Courts
On Monday, Judge Bruce Selya spoke at the Watson Institute in an event titled “The View from Inside the FISA Courts.” Selya is a federal...
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Feb 13, 20143 min read


How One Brown Student Took Down the NRA
One morning last month, Rhode Islanders woke up to the news that the National Rifle Association had been charged with the second-largest...
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Feb 9, 20149 min read


“Proactive Policing in America’s Biggest City”: Remarks from Ray Kelly
On October 29, New York City Police Commissioner Ray Kelly was scheduled to deliver prepared remarks during a public lecture at Brown...
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Dec 26, 20132 min read


Questioning Kelly: Francis Torres Analyzes the Speech
It wouldn’t be surprising if, five years from now, Brown still looks back at 2013 as the year of the Ray Kelly Event. It’s rare for a...
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Dec 26, 201315 min read


Why The Editors Published Ray Kelly
In the last two months at Brown, it sometimes feels as though we’ve been witness not to a news-generating controversy but a campus-wide...
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Dec 26, 20139 min read


Legalizing the Stop-and-Frisk Conversation
It is good to be back after last week’s live-blogging interlude. Only later did I come to know the real reason I was tasked for the...
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Nov 8, 20135 min read


Rhode Island and the Right to be Sick
As the leaves change color and the temperature drops, winter and the flu season are fast approaching. With the chill also comes the...
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Nov 7, 20135 min read


LIVEBLOG: Debate Night at Brown
Hi readers! In honor of Election Day, it’s Debate Night here at Brown. The College Democrats and the College Republicans are facing off!...
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Nov 5, 20131 min read


For the Ones in the Annex
On October 29th there were two events. At one, a New York City police commissioner was shouted down. The lecture hall in which he had...
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Oct 31, 20133 min read


Brown’s Platform Legitimized Kelly
Most everyone seems to agree that Tuesday was not our university’s finest hour. I’ve heard many of my friends express some sort of...
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Oct 30, 20134 min read
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[Liveblog]: Citizens United on College Hill
Starting the Conversation on College Hill. The event is a discussion of the impact of the Citizens United Supreme Court case and what...
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Oct 28, 20131 min read


Downtown Providence Policy
Sometimes, what we write here on Brown Political Review can seem distant for the average Brown Student. What is a Brown student to do...
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Oct 28, 20132 min read


You Don’t Know What’s Best: The Overuse of Poverty Porn
The Better World by Design conference, an annual gathering of Brown and RISD students, community members, and designers of all varieties...
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Oct 28, 20134 min read


Watch the Brown Alumni Media Panel
BPR sponsored a panel of alumni journalists to discuss “Investigative Journalism in the Age of Polarization (and Misinformation).”...
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Oct 24, 20131 min read


Event Review: Common Cause Dinner
This past Wednesday, I had the pleasure of attending the Common Cause dinner at the historic Rhodes on the Pawtuxet event hall. Common...
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Oct 21, 20132 min read


Druckenmiller and Canada on the Next Generation’s Growing Debt Burden
In light of this month’s budget and debt ceiling fiascos, a recent event hosted by Brown’s Common Sense Action (and co-sponsored by yours...
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Oct 19, 20132 min read
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[Liveblog]: Investigative Journalism and Polarization
Brown Political Review is excited to present a marquee panel of alumni journalists to explore how journalism is changing in an American...
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Oct 19, 20131 min read
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[Liveblog]: Breaking Promises
Stanley Druckenmiller and Geoffrey Canada are speaking. The event is being put on by Common Sense Action Brown University, and...
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Oct 15, 20131 min read


Janet Yellen ’67 Nominated to Head Federal Reserve
President Obama will officially nominate Janet Yellen, Brown class of ’67, for chairwoman of the Federal Reserve this coming Wednesday....
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Oct 11, 20134 min read


Joey Quits; Others Demand Respect from Management
Joey DeFrancesco became a short-lived Internet celebrity in 2011 after the then-24 year old posted a video of himself quitting his job at...
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Sep 22, 20134 min read
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