It still remains unclear whether the time for immigration reform has come. But after the Senate on Monday voted 67-27 to proceed on...

Okay.  So.  It has been several weeks since I asked all of you out there on the Internet what the Next Big Question shall be. To sum up,...

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

We have had many discussions on BPR about the affects of gerrymandering on American policy.  To sum up: very few members of Congress are...

Public Domain I am a big fan of bars as a social equalizer.  I believe bars are one of the last places in modern America where it remains...

The media likes narratives, probably because the public likes narratives. The media has been trying to shoehorn the three ongoing...

Walking into MetroMart on Thayer, I pick up my third iPhone charger of the semester. I’m a forgetful person usually, and iPhone chargers...

Kathleen Sebelius really doesn’t want universal Plan B access. Image courtesy of “woohoo120” on Flickr. Friends, Romans, countrypeople,...

“The Department of Defense has reached unprecedented levels of cooperation with the Jordanian armed forces…We have done that in light of...

Hello readers! Did you take my advice from last week and follow the news? If not, I want to point out that, on April 30, the Food and...

Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas) has proposed draft legislation that would require every grant handed out by the National Science Foundation...

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

A Special Feature by BPR and BPF On February 20, the Supreme Court heard Shelby County v. Alabama, a challenge to Section 5 of the Voting...

There was an ominous silence after Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) finished asking Dr. Arindrajit Dube her question. “If we started in 1960...

by Christina Kata “Your blood, the government’s shedding it/Your nation, they’ve exhausted it/Your religion, they’ve targeted it/Your...

by Athena Bryan In 2011 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Brown v. Plata that the degree of overcrowding in California prisons constituted...

by Lauren Sukin Chris Hadfield recently celebrated St. Patty’s in space. The Canadian astronaut aboard the International Space Station...

As the U.S. Supreme Court considers two prominent cases with monumental implications for same-sex marriage, legislatures in several...

“For such a small state, why can’t it get its act together?” This is a sentiment often evoked when thinking of Rhode Island. From...

Happy May, readers! I hope that you’re celebrating May Day appropriately, and that you’ve been keeping up with your judicial news. There...