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Why Growing Geographic Polarization in the United States Should Have Your Attention
When the pandemic forced people to spend almost all of their time at home, many reevaluated not only what they wanted from life, but...
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Mar 12, 20235 min read


How Israel’s Ultranationalist Religious Far-Right Benefited from the Country’s Divide
What if Marjorie Taylor Greene was appointed US Vice President and Alex Jones Secretary of State? This would almost be unthinkable at the...
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Mar 7, 20236 min read


Make Civil Service, Not Civil War
The United States currently faces the highest level of political polarization since the Civil War. Partisan animosity is reaching a...
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Nov 6, 20225 min read


Polarization, Covid-19, and Social Media: An Interview with Ezra Klein
Photo credit: Lucas Foglia Ezra Klein is a New York Times opinion columnist and host of the podcast The Ezra Klein Show. Before moving to...
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Oct 26, 20225 min read


Split Personality Politics: National Political Polarization’s Impact on State Candidate Positi
Although the November midterms will not involve voting in a president, these elections will prove monumental in determining Republicans’...
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Oct 26, 20226 min read


Fear and Loathing in Central Pennsylvania: School Boards and the Polarization of American Politics
On a Wednesday night last August, the Shippensburg Area School Board held a special meeting. The nine members sat behind a table in the...
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Mar 22, 20227 min read


A Rabbi’s View on the Political Landscape: An Interview with Rabbi Preston Neimeiser
*This interview is the first installment of BPR’s latest series, Faith in Politics, which highlights the viewpoints of different...
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Dec 3, 20214 min read


Deal or no Deal? — Green New Deal splits the Democratic Party
Ambitious has certainly been a word used to describe the “Green New Deal,” a 14-page resolution to tackle climate change authored by Sen....
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Apr 20, 20194 min read


New York’s Polling Stations Are Full of Promises, but Where Are the Voters?
Being involved in politics has become trendy again. Increased political polarization and nearly constant controversy in the White House...
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Oct 23, 20185 min read


America’s Second Westward Expansion
President Trump’s June 21st rally in Cedar Rapids, Iowa was predictably similar to previous rallies he gave as a candidate and continues...
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Nov 13, 20175 min read


All Blaine, No Gain
Nestled in the center of Idaho lies Blaine County: an oddly-shaped shaped area nearly twice the size of Rhode Island, with a panhandle...
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Nov 3, 20176 min read


Political Boxing Match: Who’s Leading Whom in Health Care?
The United States is in a unique political moment. Today, Republicans and Democrats are more divided along ideological lines than in any...
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May 26, 20175 min read


Why the Democrats Should Not Block Gorsuch
The vote on the confirmation of Judge Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court will be a turning point in the history of American governance....
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Apr 20, 20176 min read


The Primary Peril
Is it Super PACs or the liberal media that’s corrupting Washington? While most presidential candidates recognize the American political...
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Feb 2, 20165 min read


Not Knowing Your Neighbor…Is it Ruining America?
Marc Dunkelman, research fellow at the Taubman Center for Public Policy, gave a talk Wednesday about his upcoming book The Vanishing...
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Mar 20, 20144 min read


We (Were) All In This Together: What Happened to Addressing Climate Change?
When “An Inconvenient Truth” came out in 2006, introducing the severity of climate change to a mass audience, it seemed like the new buzz...
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Mar 5, 20146 min read


Why Marrying Someone Like Yourself Is Bad For America
The Economist recently ran a story with the provocative subtitle “How sexual equality increases the gap between rich and poor...
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Feb 26, 20144 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
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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


Voting Rights and Representation in the Ocean State
The Dorr Rebellion. Image obtained from Wikimedia Commons. Just this month, several members of the Cranston Board of Canvassers resigned...
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Oct 31, 20123 min read
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