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“The Perfect Tax”: Land Value Taxation and the Housing Crisis
In many major American cities, housing affordability has become a pressing issue. In cities like New York and San Francisco, rents have...
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Dec 3, 20214 min read


Child Labor Is a Feature of Our Capitalist System
In the face of a “labor shortage” that has seen workers quitting or refusing to return to low-paying jobs, many restaurants in the United...
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Dec 3, 20215 min read


Will ‘Build Back Better’ Work? An Interview with Robert Rector
*This interview is the second installment of BPR’s series, The Last Line of Defense: How Expansive Should the US Social Safety Net Be? In...
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Dec 3, 20219 min read


Why We Need to Stop “Reinventing” Broken Systems for Climate Change
“The Paris Agreement is a covenant of hope with humanity. It has everything we need to achieve our climate goals. But to fully unleash...
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Dec 3, 20216 min read


Ask the Chief – Baltimore: An Interview with Michael Harrison
*This interview is the fifth installment of Ask the Chief, a BPR interview series with police chiefs from around the country. Michael...
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Dec 2, 20216 min read


Not a Monolith: What the Queer Response to the Beirut Blast can Teach Us about Lebanon and the Middl
In seconds, everything changed. A city buzzing with mundane early-evening traffic came to a standstill as 2,750 tonnes of ammonium...
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Dec 2, 20215 min read


Constitutional Rights and Indigenous Dispossession in Chile
For the first time in Chilean history, an Indigenous Mapuche woman, Elisa Loncon, is leading the country’s constitutional transformation...
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Dec 2, 20214 min read


The Intertwined Nature of Our Pressing Economic Problems
As the global economy has begun to recover from over a year of Covid-19-related crisis, employers are finding it surprisingly difficult...
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Nov 28, 20216 min read


Interfering with Non-interference: ASEAN and the Myanmar Crisis
Every year since 1976, ten of Southeast Asia’s top leaders have come together at the main summit of the Association of Southeast Asian...
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Nov 25, 20215 min read


A Historical Look at China-Taiwan Relations
China-Taiwan relations are at their “worst in 40 years.” There are “confirmed US troops in Taiwan.” And 150 mainland aircrafts entered...
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Nov 25, 20215 min read


Why Dimming the Sun Might be a Good Idea
“In the near future, climate modification will become necessary to maintain current climatic conditions,” wrote Soviet scientist Mikhail...
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Nov 25, 20215 min read


Prepare for the Worst: Rebuilding Caribbean Schools after Hurricanes
Education perils in unexpected emergencies. After the last eighteen months under a global pandemic, seemingly every nation has come to...
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Nov 24, 20215 min read


Envisioning the End of Policing: An Interview with Alex Vitale
In this installment of BPR’s criminal justice reform series, we meet Alex S. Vitale, author of The End of Policing and professor of...
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Nov 24, 20219 min read


Using Humor to Advance Political Discourse Online: An Interview with Sami Sage
Sami Sage is a graduate of Cornell University and the Co-Founder and Chief Creative Officer of Betches Media. Started as a blog in 2011,...
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Nov 23, 20218 min read


The Case for Refocusing European Strategy to Curb Polish Illiberalism
The Polish working class has emerged as an unfortunate pawn in recent disputes between the European Union (EU) and the Polish government,...
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Nov 22, 20215 min read


Gridiron Imperialism: How the NFL Propagandizes for the US Military
On September 12th, Gillette Stadium welcomed fans to a new New England Patriots game for the first time since January 2020. The tone...
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Nov 22, 20215 min read


It’s the Great Pumpkin, BPR: The History, Culture, and Economic Promise of Pumpkins in Ukraine
In the United States, the arrival of late autumn means just one thing for your taste palate: Here comes the pumpkin. With pumpkin...
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Nov 22, 20215 min read


Bridging the Gap: Reconciling Political Differences Between East and West Germany
In 2019, a Business Insider article noted the visible difference between yellow streetlights in eastern Berlin and the fluorescent,...
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Nov 22, 20215 min read


What is a Green Party?
“The principal defect of the industrial way of life,” wrote a group of British environmental scientists in 1972 for The Ecologist, “is...
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Nov 22, 20215 min read


The Relevance of International Media in Activism: Understanding the Politics and Poverty of Squid Ga
Choi Young-soo works as a 35-year-old part-time food delivery driver in South Korea. However, he wasn’t always condemned to working a...
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Nov 22, 20216 min read
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