As Angela Merkel knows, United States authorities have a tricky relationship with phone privacy. After revelations of ongoing tapping of...

On 14 January, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals decided Verizon v. FCC, vacating aspects of an FCC regulation imposing anti-blocking and...

Mitt, the new documentary from Netflix about the failed presidential campaign of Governor Mitt Romney, doesn’t reveal much. The film is...

Hello readers! I hope that, despite Punxsutawney Phil’s prediction of six more weeks of winter, you’re keeping warm and reading up on...

Recently, a bipartisan group of 17 governors signed a letter to Congress asking that highway funding be restored.  You may not have...

How does Germany’s prohibition of homeschooling threaten the civil liberties of American evangelicals? The short answer is: it doesn’t....

Donald Verrilli, Jr., Solicitor General of the United States. U.S. Gov’t Work, Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain. The implications of the...

One of the themes of a recent New Yorker article about President Obama is what author David Remnick calls “the long view.” Obama compares...

BPR’s live blog of President Obama’s 2014 State of the Union Address. The Brown Political Review is the best place to keep updated on...

Over the winter break, your intrepid reporter went on a field trip to Spartanburg, SC.  Spartanburg represents many of the factors I am...

Hello, readers, and welcome to 2014, where everything is made up and the points don’t matter! Just kidding, we aren’t living in an...

This column advocates one of the most unpopular stances in America: giving lawyers more money. But hear me out. Medicare, Medicaid,...

On October 29, New York City Police Commissioner Ray Kelly was scheduled to deliver prepared remarks during a public lecture at Brown...

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...

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...

By Michael Tamayo “It will arise from the ashes.” It seems fitting that Detroit’s city motto involves rebirth from ruin. Detroit’s...

In the years after the Vietnam War ended, Americans were said to have suffered “Vietnam syndrome,” a cultural condition that led to...

By Adam Bouche Politicians have a difficult time grasping the scientific method. All too frequently, scientific knowledge and research is...

By Emma Dickson On the night of his reelection on November 7, 2012, President Barack Obama referred to Vice President Joe Biden as...

Despite the United States’ sizable standing army and worldwide military presence, a distinct divide remains in the country between the...