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Twitter, Don’t Do Your Thing: Anti-Doxxing legislation is urgently needed to stop this out-of-
On a sleepy Monday night right after Christmas, a post surfaced in a Facebook group frequented by conservatives in the town of Parker,...
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Apr 6, 20215 min read


The Wretched Refused: How US asylum policy has failed Venezuelan economic refugees
“Give me your tired, your poor, / Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, / The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.” Today, US...
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Apr 6, 20215 min read


The Great Equalizer: How a constitutional right to education could save our schools
The word “education” appears in the constitutions of 185 of the 193 recognized states in the world. Of the eight countries that do not...
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Apr 6, 20214 min read


A Generic Solution: Suspension of patent rights for Covid-19 vaccines could save countless lives
Since the Covid-19 pandemic began in early 2020, Americans have considered vaccines to be their ticket back to normalcy. Pharmaceutical...
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Apr 5, 20215 min read


Strengthening the American Labor Movement: The Advantages of Sectoral Bargaining
In a recent message addressing an organizing drive at an Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama, President Joe Biden came out strongly in...
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Apr 5, 20214 min read


Delivering to the Desert: Meal Kits and Food Insecurity
For the busy American household with disposable income, the delivery meal kit is a dream come true. It arrives at your doorstep in an...
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Apr 5, 20215 min read


A Vaccine for Venality: Peru’s Pandemic-Era Path to a Post-Fujimori Polity
In mid-February, Peruvian governmental corruption made international headlines once again when reports came out that almost 500...
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Apr 5, 20216 min read


Inequality & Abduction: The Economics of Student Kidnapping in Nigeria
In late February, an estimated 300 Nigerian girls were abducted from their school in an overnight raid in Zamfara, Nigeria. Over 100...
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Apr 4, 20215 min read


A Museum for Everybody: An Interview with Dr. Porchia Moore
Dr. Porchia Moore is Department Head and Assistant Professor of Museum Studies at the University of Florida in the School of Art + Art...
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Apr 4, 202112 min read


Mindfulness and Empathy in the Judiciary: An Interview with Jeremy Fogel
Judge Jeremy Fogel is the Founder and Executive Director of the Berkeley Judicial Institute (BJI) at Berkeley Law School. The BJI focuses...
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Mar 29, 202115 min read


Has COVID-19 Killed Sports?
To start the month of February, two massive sporting events took place: The Australian Open, one of the four Grand Slams in the tennis...
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Mar 28, 20215 min read


How to Reform the Broken Brokerage Industry
I walked into a bank the other day and tried to apply for a credit card. It did not go well. Apparently, my income is too low, my student...
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Mar 24, 20217 min read


The Price of Eating Right
In 2019, the United States spent $3.8 trillion on health care, averaging $11,582 per person. This figure accounts for approximately 17...
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Mar 23, 20216 min read


Dismantling Ableism: An Interview with Haben Girma
Haben Girma, the first Deafblind person to graduate from Harvard Law School, is a human rights lawyer and disability rights advocate. In...
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Mar 23, 20213 min read


Europe’s Compromise with Authoritarianism
Solidarity has not been a feature of the European Union’ pandemic response package. That was supposed to change with the passage of the...
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Mar 21, 20215 min read


The Robin Hoods of Reddit
Gamestop is a dying brick and mortar video game retailer that hasn’t reported a profit since January 2020. Over the course of a week, its...
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Mar 20, 20215 min read
Rail Companies: Quit Membership With America’s Power
Last fall I led a research team at Brown’s Climate and Development Lab, which investigated 10 of the country’s largest investor-owned...
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Mar 19, 20215 min read


How to End Child Poverty: The Case for a Universal Child Allowance
Among developed nations, the United States suffers from one of the highest rates of child poverty. In 2020, 1 in 6 American children,...
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Mar 18, 20215 min read


The Emergence of Vaccine Diplomacy: Indian & Chinese Politicization of the Pandemic
In the early stages of the Covid-19 pandemic, António Guterres, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, pleaded for an international...
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Mar 18, 20215 min read


Slogans and Bumper Stickers – Israel-Palestine Activism on Campus vs. Conflict on the Ground:
Ghaith al-Omari is a senior fellow in The Washington Institute’s Irwin Levy Family Program on the U.S.-Israel Strategic Relationship. He...
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Mar 18, 202116 min read
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