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More than 100 Brown students gathered at Foxboro Auditorium on Wednesday, November 19 to discuss the events and implications surrounding...

Scotland said no. On September the 18th the Scottish independence referendum took place and on the question of “Should Scotland be an...

On Wednesday, November 19, the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies is hosting a teach-in on the recent disappearance of...

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The Kashmir musk deer is a curious creature. Unlike its American brethren, it’s endangered, elusive and adorned with fangs. Scientists...

Russian incursions into Ukraine have many people saying that the realpolitik of the Cold War has returned to the global stage. After a...

In the 2012 presidential election in France, furor and excitement surrounded the National Front (FN, after the French name for Front...

In a time of highly tense relations with its powerhouse neighbors, Japanese relations with its notoriously malevolent neighbor, North...

“Srilankitak filipiniyeh?” asked a young schoolboy to one of his classmates. This question literally means, “Is your Sri Lankan a...

On Christmas Day, 2009, the United States almost suffered another 9/11. Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, a 23-year-old Nigerian, attempted to...

Tuesday, October 14 marked six months from the date a group of nearly 300 schoolgirls in northeastern Nigeria was kidnapped by the Muslim...

The decade long drug war has brought the Mexican military and judicial system eye to eye with the abyss. Corruption and brutality have...

On September 29, the new Afghan president, Ashraf Ghani, was sworn in alongside his erstwhile rival, now second-in-command, Abdullah...

According to the Migrants’ Files, over 23,000 migrants died trying to reach Europe between 2000 and 2013 — a number so staggering that...

On his deathbed, Oscar Wilde is reputed to have quipped, “I am dying as I have lived — beyond my means.” This sense of gallows humor is...

The Syrian civil war has been marked by crimes against humanity so undeniable that they could have leapt into existence from a textbook,...