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Jury’s in for Gwyneth, Jury’s Out On Cameras in Courtrooms
Despite advocates’ calls to reform the “broken criminal legal system,” it seems very much intact on screen. From Johnny Depp to Gwyneth...
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Apr 26, 20236 min read


Decolonizing the United States: The Case for Overturning the Insular Cases
Over 3.5 million Americans currently live in the United States territories, a number that is roughly equivalent to the populations of the...
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Mar 14, 20236 min read


Reimagining Global Justice: An Interview with Thomas Pogge
Thomas Pogge is the Director of the Global Justice Program and the Leitner Professor of Philosophy and International Affairs at Yale...
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Apr 22, 202111 min read


Rethinking Incarceration: An Interview with James Forman Jr.
James Forman Jr. is a professor at Yale Law School. He teaches and writes about criminal law policy, constitutional law, juvenile...
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Jan 8, 20217 min read
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The Waco Siege – BPR Interviews: David Thibodeau [Part 2]
*Part one of this interview is located here. David Thibodeau is a survivor of the 1993 siege against Mount Carmel, the Branch Davidian...
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May 5, 20208 min read
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The Waco Siege – BPR Interviews: Gary Noesner [Part 2]
*Part one of this interview is located here. Gary Noesner was Chief Hostage Negotiator for the first half of the siege on the Branch...
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May 5, 20209 min read
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The Waco Siege – BPR Interviews: David Thibodeau [Part 1]
David Thibodeau is a survivor of the 1993 siege against Mount Carmel, the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas. The Branch Davidians...
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Apr 28, 202013 min read


Networked Realities of Portraits: Policing through Online Databases
What happens when you are no longer the sole owner of your face? We live in a networked reality, meaning that the realities that dwell...
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Apr 22, 20196 min read


Camera Shy: The Supreme Court’s Unconvincing Case Against Transparency
On March 10th, Congress began celebrating Sunshine Week, an informal celebration of government transparency led by the American Society...
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Apr 20, 20195 min read


Sentenced to Homelessness: The Case for Housing Sex Offenders
In 2009, a homeless encampment under the Julia Tuttle Causeway in Miami attained international infamy when it was discovered that all the...
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Apr 20, 20195 min read


Sex Isn’t Illegal: Criminalizing Human Trafficking and Protecting Sex Workers
Hours before the AFC championship game this February, New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft solicited sex workers at the Orchids of...
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Apr 20, 20194 min read


Kill the Johnson Amendment
On September 2, 2016, thousands of American pastors and across the country took to their pulpits as part of the annual “Pulpit Freedom...
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Oct 27, 20178 min read


Nickels and Dimes: The Criminalization of Rhode Island’s Poor
Court debt and bus fares are nothing more than a mild annoyance for most Rhode Islanders: a transaction accepted without second thought...
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Apr 18, 201710 min read


Minimum Sentence, Mandatory Damage
On September 11, 2015, 75-year-old Lee Carroll Brooker, a disabled war veteran with chronic pain, received the news he had been dreading...
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Oct 24, 20167 min read


Safeguarding Democracy and Preventing Polarization in Brazil
On the morning of March 4, at the São Bernardo do Campo residence of former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Brazilians witnessed a...
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Mar 26, 20167 min read


All Work and No Pay: How employers exploit Rhode Island’s low-wage workers
Images of protestors standing at a picket line demanding the protection of workers’ rights characterized the American labor movement....
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Mar 16, 20166 min read


Colombia: Giving Peace (Negotiations) A Chance
On September 23, Colombians awoke to the unexpected news of a peace accord between the government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of...
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Oct 19, 20154 min read


Out of Africa: The ICC and its Departure from Sudan
On December 14, Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) Fatou Bensouda, announced the shelving of the Sudan case, and...
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Mar 12, 20156 min read
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