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Democracy in Peril: What the Farmers’ Protest Saga Reveals About P.M. Modi’s India
Political opponents jailed. Press censored. Civil liberties restricted. Human rights abused. All in response to widespread protests...
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Mar 9, 20216 min read
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From QAnon to Querdenken: Fighting Disinformation to Rebuild German-US Relations
Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Brandenburg Gate has stood as a symbol for a nation rebuilt from the ravages of war and for the...
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Mar 9, 20215 min read
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Why Passing Stimulus Checks is Critical to the Democratic Party’s Future
Democrats in Congress are likely experiencing dejavú as 2021 mirrors their 2009 control of the White House and Congress, albeit by a...
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Mar 9, 20215 min read
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Reconciling US-China Climate Change Cooperation
On his first day in office, President Biden began the process of rejoining the Paris Agreement – a crucial initial step that signaled to...
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Mar 9, 20214 min read
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The Final Countdown: America’s Last Chance to Save the Labor Movement
“I still believe in ideals. I am not for a return to that definition of Liberty under which for many years a free people were being...
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Mar 8, 20215 min read
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The EU and Vaccine Nationalism
As more and more Covid-19 vaccines have come onto the market, a global race of nations competing to vaccinate as much of their country’s...
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Mar 7, 20215 min read
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The Exclusionary Consequences of Congressional Inefficiency
The 400-member New Hampshire House of Representatives takes approximately 30 seconds to vote on a bill compared to the 15 minutes taken...
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Mar 6, 20215 min read
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The Broken Music Industry: An Interview with Will Sheff
Will Sheff is a musician who is best known as the frontman of the critically-acclaimed indie rock band Okkervil River. The group’s 2005...
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Mar 5, 20219 min read
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The Nuances of the United States Military Budget: What to Cut?
The United States’ military is massive, demanding, and extraordinarily powerful. To some, its strength is synonymous with American...
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Mar 5, 20216 min read
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How Colleges and Universities Can Contribute to a More Equitable COVID-19 Vaccine Rollout
When a Brown student walks into the Olney-Margolies Athletic Center (OMAC), the mass COVID-19 testing site on campus, they begin a highly...
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Mar 3, 20216 min read
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To the Moon and the Media
Diamond hands. Rocket emojis. Stock memes and parodied clips from movies plastered all over social media. Otherwise divided American...
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Mar 2, 20215 min read
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Investigating the Political Potency of Christian Nationalism: An Interview with Andrew Whitehead
Andrew Whitehead is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, Co-Director of the...
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Mar 1, 20215 min read
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Radicalism and Revolution: An Interview with Bernardine Dohrn
Bernardine Rae Dohrn (b. 1942) is a retired law professor from Northwestern University and the former leader of the Weather Underground...
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Feb 20, 20215 min read
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Say Kamala Harris’ Name Correctly – Names are a Form of Power to Black Americans
Several Republican politicians have recently made a point of mocking Vice President Kamala Harris’ name. At his mid-October rally, former...
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Feb 19, 20214 min read
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Nothing Outside the Text: An Interview with Edwin Meese III
Edwin Meese III was the US Attorney General under Ronald Reagan (1985-1988) and one of the contemporary founders of originalism. In 2019,...
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Feb 17, 20215 min read
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Vaccines, Variants, and (Eventual) Victory: An Interview with Ashish Jha
Ashish K. Jha, M.D., MPH, is the dean of Brown University’s School of Public Health. Before arriving at Brown last September, he served...
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Jan 29, 20217 min read
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Partisan Primaries in Florida: An Interview with Steve Hough
Steve Hough is the director of Florida Fair and Open Primaries, an organization that, alongside Open Primaries and All Voters Vote,...
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Jan 28, 202110 min read
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The Gatekeepers to Online Discourse: An Interview with Daphne Keller ’95
Daphne Keller ’95 is a law professor at Stanford University and is the director of the Program on Platform Regulation at Stanford’s Cyber...
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Jan 20, 202110 min read
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Complex Voter Systems and their Contribution to Voter Suppression
Voting should be simple. It shouldn’t require standing 11 hours in line. It shouldn’t cause thousands of ballots to be thrown out because...
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Jan 19, 20215 min read
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An Attack on the Most Vulnerable: U.S. Sanctions on Venezuela
In early 2020 as the world braced for the Covid-19 pandemic, only 20 percent of Venezuela’s hospitals had basic supplies. By May,...
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Jan 9, 20215 min read
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