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TikTok and WeChat: Threats or Scapegoats?
Tensions between the United States and China, fueled by a combination of American enmity towards the global rise of China, President...
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Nov 11, 20206 min read


The Only Business Where the Players Are Also the Umpires: An Interview with Suraj Patel
Suraj Patel is an attorney, adjunct professor at the NYU Stern School of Business, and co-founder of Creative Caucus. A former Obama...
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Nov 1, 202012 min read


Don’t Trust the Trusts: The Perils of Declining Market Competition
Editor’s Note: This article was written in March 2020, before the period of sudden change following the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic....
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Oct 21, 20205 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


The Dream Sync: An Interview with Sport Ivory
Sport Ivory is a Nashville-based band consisting of lead vocalist Jeffrey James, guitarist Justin Halpin, and sound designer Jordan...
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Sep 26, 202021 min read
A Case for Base Compensation
In 1997, Rodney Reed was convicted of murder, ending a lengthy investigation into the death of a young woman named Stacey Stites. But to...
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Sep 26, 20205 min read
Disaster-to-Consumer Advertising: Facing the Dangers of DTCA
In 2006, pharmaceutical giant Pfizer launched a $258 million advertising campaign for Lipitor, a high cholesterol treatment. One ad...
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Sep 26, 20204 min read
Striking a Chord
From the taxi cabs, tuk-tuks (miniature three-wheeled vehicles), and vendor stands crowding the busy streets of Cairo blares a genre of...
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Sep 22, 20204 min read
Citizen’s Dilemma: Reimagining the Future of UK Citizenship Laws
Shamima Begum, a British citizen born to Bangladeshi parents, recently lost the first stage of her appeal to retain British citizenship....
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Sep 21, 20205 min read
Conservation Takes Wing: New Zealand’s Kakapos Make a Model Recovery
Decades ago, few would have placed bets on the survival of the kakapo. Indigenous to New Zealand, kakapos are a rare flightless,...
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Sep 21, 20204 min read
Fanning the Flames: Climate Change and Feminism in the Kingdom of Lesotho
In recent years, life for citizens in the small Kingdom of Lesotho has changed significantly. The rains of farming season arrive...
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Sep 21, 20206 min read
Island of Imprisonment, Island of Freedom
Positionality statement from the author: As an American at a privileged institution, I am aware of my responsibility to be an educated...
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Sep 12, 20204 min read
Potential Energy: The Future of Nuclear Microreactors
Rows of wind turbines line the mountain ridges atop remote villages in Alaska, where diesel-powered electricity is so expensive that...
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Sep 12, 20205 min read
Betrayal: Confronting America’s Veteran Deportation Policy
I met Ricardo in January 2020. He wore a black wool jacket, which seemed like overkill in the Tijuana sun. During Brown’s “US-Mexico...
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Sep 12, 20205 min read


What Is Real: An Interview with Trevor Lee
The rapper Trevor Lee rose to fame as an early American adopter of TikTok with viral hit “Barbershop Freestyle” in 2018. He got his...
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Aug 28, 20209 min read


Singing Truth – BPR Interviews: Pauline Jean
Pauline Jean is an internationally acclaimed Haitian American singer, songwriter, and composer who has performed everywhere from Moscow’s...
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Aug 6, 202011 min read


It Comes in Waves and When It’s Here I’ll Know: An Interview with Brett Cameron
Brett Cameron is an independent singer and songwriter who has shared the stage with Jon Bellion, Hall & Oates, Kodaline, and Drake Bell...
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Jul 21, 202013 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


Sex, Death, and Other People’s Money – BPR Interviews: Copyslut
Copyslut is a band and artists’ collective who have been creating sex-magic, catharsis, and healing vibes since 2017. Also sex-positive...
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Jul 17, 202015 min read


BPLA & BPR Interview: Erika Gi
*The Brown Political Review conducted this interview in partnership with the Black Pre-Law Association [BPLA]. During the interview, BPLA...
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Jul 10, 20208 min read
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