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The Progress Narrative: An Interview with Sameer Pandya
Sameer Pandya is a fiction writer and interdisciplinary literary and cultural studies scholar interested in questions of cultural...
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Nov 23, 202011 min read


The COVID-19 Era Has Flipped the Script on Female Politicians
There’s no riskier candidate for an influential position in the United States than a woman. Their chromosomes are proof of their lack of...
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Nov 16, 20207 min read


Perception in Politics: An Interview with Robert Jervis
Robert Jervis is a professor of international politics at Columbia University. He studies the intersection of psychology and...
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Sep 29, 20207 min read


BPR Interviews: Bushra Amiwala on Embracing Tech and Rejecting PACs
Bushra Amiwala currently serves on the Skokie School District 73.5 Board of Education. At 22 years old, she is the youngest Muslim...
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Jul 20, 202010 min read


BPR Interviews: Marianne Williamson on Politics and Souls
Marianne Williamson is a bestselling author, activist, spiritual leader, and a candidate for the 2020 Democratic Nomination. Nick: I’m...
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Nov 25, 201918 min read


BPR Interviews: The Neoliberal Project
The Neoliberal Project is a nonprofit organization seeking to create a new understanding of neoliberalism for our current political...
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Oct 25, 20199 min read


Zimbabwe’s New Weapon
This past January, Zimbabwe experienced another bout of political instability as rising fuel prices drove citizens to the streets to...
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Mar 5, 20194 min read


The Biology of Politics
Gone are the days of disagreeing solely on the logic of policy decisions; in today’s era of extreme political polarization, people seem...
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Dec 10, 20184 min read


Women Who Work: Ivanka Trump’s Personal Brand
2018 has been designated the Year of the Woman, and the midterm elections have confirmed the title. Though still far from attaining equal...
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Dec 3, 20184 min read


Staying on Track: Track & Field as an Instructive Metaphor for a Long-Run Approach to Political
Humility––Restraint––Resilience: On a summer day in Munich in 1972, this rare amalgam of qualities produced a legendary Olympic victory....
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Jun 26, 20185 min read


The Jungian YouTuber: Jordan Peterson’s Political Ascendency
Riding the ever-surging wave of alt-right sentiment in recent years, right wing political commentators have effectively monopolized the...
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Jun 24, 20184 min read


Where Hollywood Meets Washington
A line delivered at the 69th annual Emmys this year had viewers questioning if they were watching an awards show or the dystopian Black...
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Nov 4, 20174 min read


Trump’s Farming Folly: How the White House is Leaving Farmers Behind
In the world of food, where free range and organic are idolized, farmers remain caged in by big business and government aid. The United...
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Nov 3, 20176 min read


No Congress, No Problem: City Politics in Trump’s America
In the current state of American politics, it’s no surprise the approval ratings of city mayors tend to be about triple that of the...
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Nov 3, 20177 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


The Big Test: Assessing the Five Star Movement’s Roman Chance
When TV comedian Beppe Grillo and web activist Gianroberto Casaleggio started a political movement in 2009, few believed it would become...
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May 15, 20176 min read


BPR Interviews: Marilynne Robinson
Marilynne Robinson is a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and essayist, best known for her novels Gilead and Housekeeping as well as her...
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Dec 16, 20164 min read


BPR Interviews: Werner Weidenfeld
Werner Weidenfeld is a German political scientist and served as the director of German-US relations for the German government. A...
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Nov 13, 20166 min read


BPR Interviews: Ben King
Ben King is the cofounder and outreach director of Amish PAC, a super PAC for conservative Amish voters in swing states such as...
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Nov 13, 20164 min read


BPR Interviews: Anthony Foxx
Anthony Foxx is the current United States Secretary of Transportation. He was unanimously confirmed by the Senate in 2013. Secretary Foxx...
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Nov 13, 20165 min read
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