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BPR Interviews: Garett Jones on Questioning Democracy
Garett Jones is an economist at George Mason University. His most recent book is 10% Less Democracy: Why You Should Trust the Elites a...
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Feb 29, 202010 min read


Human Rights and Media Portrayals: Narratives of the Kashmiri Experience
OVERVIEW: Featuring interviews from three women who testified before the Congressional Subcommittee on Human Rights in South Asia in...
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Feb 27, 202020 min read


BPR Interviews: John P. Walters
John P. Walters served as the Director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy under President George W. Bush. Ryan...
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Feb 26, 202010 min read


BPR Interviews: Dr. Azim Shariff
Dr. Azim Shariff is a social psychologist whose research focuses on where morality intersects with religion, cultural attitudes and...
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Feb 24, 202014 min read


BPR Interviews: Elaine Sheldon
Elaine Sheldon is an American filmmaker who centers much of her work around the opioid crisis. Her documentary “Heroin(e)” was nominated...
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Feb 24, 20208 min read


BPR Interviews: Jason Crawford on Studying Human Progress
Jason Crawford is an entrepreneur and writer. He is a leader in the incipient field of Progress Studies. He blogs at The Roots of...
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Feb 23, 202015 min read


BPR Interviews: Ambassador Gerónimo Gutiérrez Fernández
Ambassador Gerónimo Gutiérrez Fernández served as the Mexican Ambassador to the United States from 2017-2018. He is a believer in...
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Feb 22, 20204 min read


BPR Interviews: Patrisse Cullors
Patrisse Cullors is an artist-activist and co-founder of Black Lives Matter. She was named one of Fortune’s World’s Greatest Leaders,...
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Feb 19, 20209 min read


BPR Interviews: The Telah Foundation
Founded in 1974, Heaven’s Gate was a millenarian cult based near San Diego, California. On March 26, 1997, members of the San Diego...
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Feb 12, 20203 min read


Academic Freedom on Trial at Brown University
Find our episodes on SoundCloud, Spotify, and iTunes! OVERVIEW: In 2013, Ray Kelly was invited to speak at Brown University. As a...
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Feb 8, 202015 min read


Five Letters, One Man: BPR Interviews YONAS
Yonas Mellesse, better known to fans around the world under mononym YONAS, is a leading independent hip-hop artist. Growing up in the...
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Jan 31, 202011 min read


The Departure of the Homeowner from the American Dream
Home ownership has always characterized the American Dream. Suburban two-story houses with long driveways and perfectly manicured lawns...
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Jan 29, 20205 min read


BPR Interviews: Bobby Henline
Bobby Henline is a standup comedian and retired military Staff Sergeant who served four tours in Iraq. More than ten years after...
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Jan 28, 202019 min read


A Look at the Providence State Takeover Part II
In the second installment of the series on the Providence School Takeover, BPRadio dives back into the Providence Public Schools to...
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Jan 25, 202013 min read


Prescription Drug Prices are Too High and Big Pharma Knows it
In the United States, “one out of every four patients reports not filling a prescription today for themselves or a family member due to...
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Jan 22, 20205 min read


BPR Interviews: Schuyler Bailar
As part of the Harvard men’s swim team for all four years of college, Schuyler Bailar is the first transgender athlete to compete in any...
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Jan 21, 202014 min read


BPR Interviews: Alan Dershowitz
Alan Dershowitz is a constitutional and criminal attorney. He taught at Harvard Law School, entering as the youngest professor in its...
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Jan 20, 202010 min read


BPR Interviews: Ted Kooser
Ted Kooser is a native of the Midwest and served as the Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 2004 to 2006....
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Jan 17, 20203 min read


Human Rights and International Sporting Events
“If we were to hold a minute of silence for every estimated death of a migrant worker due to the constructions of the Qatar World Cup,”...
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Jan 14, 20205 min read


BPR Interviews: Jane Ginsburg on Technology and Copyright
As the Morton L. Janklow Professor of Literary and Artistic Property Law at Columbia Law School, Jane Ginsburg specializes in legal...
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Jan 12, 20206 min read
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