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Awards Show Politics: The (Not So) Impartial Oscars
It is funny how the Oscars, a supposedly apolitical event, are as divisive and controversial as US elections. Certainly, there is a...
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Apr 17, 20234 min read


Sportswashing in Soccer: How Qatar’s World Cup Gamble Paid Off
It was Lionel Messi’s defining moment. After a final full of drama, he had finally captured the one trophy that had eluded him throughout...
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Apr 16, 20235 min read


Eye of the Storm: How the Fed’s Interest Rate Hikes Flood Developing Economies
Jerome Powell presses a button, and halfway across the world, a government buckles. There are a lot of steps in between, but that’s the...
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Apr 16, 20233 min read


Fighting for Food: UK Farmers After the Common Agricultural Policy
Since formally leaving the European Union (EU) in 2020, British farmers have been faced with a myriad of challenges. Issues with...
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Apr 16, 20235 min read


Moms for QAnon?
Upon learning that hundreds of thousands of posts on Instagram are tagged with “#SaveTheChildren,” one might assume that the UK-based...
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Apr 16, 20235 min read


Marianne Williamson for President
Back in 2019, Marianne Williamson—self-help guru, author, and spiritual advisor to Oprah—ran for president with the assertion that “love...
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Apr 15, 20234 min read


Political Protest Splashed Against the Canvas
What do you see in this painting? Do you see the aerial view of a sprawling neighborhood? Vintage cameras stacked one on top of the...
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Apr 12, 20234 min read


Developments in Journalism from 1970 to Today: An Interview with Joan Lunden (Part 2: Journalism and
Joan Lunden is a bestselling author, motivational speaker, and former co-host of Good Morning America. Lunden is the host of the PBS...
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Apr 12, 20238 min read


Talking About Roe, Post-Roe: An Interview with Mary Ziegler
Mary Ziegler is the Martin Luther King Jr. Professor of Law at UC Davis and one of the leading historians of the US abortion debate. She...
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Apr 10, 20233 min read


Electoral Aftershocks
On February 6, 2023, a deadly series of earthquakes struck southern Türkiye and northern Syria, killing at least 50,000 people and...
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Apr 9, 20235 min read


Reimagining the Social Justice Nonprofit Ecosystem
In the weeks leading up to a big election, hundreds of unsolicited texts and calls from different political organizations inundate one’s...
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Apr 9, 20234 min read


“Don’t Tread on Me”: Gun Ownership as an American Identity
The yellow Gadsden flag flies high over many rural districts in the United States, bearing the phrase “DON’T TREAD ON ME” and a coiled...
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Apr 9, 20234 min read


Fane in Vain and Eminent Domain
On Friday, March 10, the I-195 Redevelopment District Commission announced that the New York-based Fane Corporation would not be...
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Apr 9, 20236 min read


Kevin McCarthy: Conservatives’ New Puppet
As the recently elected Speaker of the House, Kevin McCarthy had a golden opportunity to set an example as a moderate, bipartisan...
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Apr 9, 20234 min read


Tied Up: Prison Sterilizations and One State’s Efforts to Make Amends
In 1883, Francis Galton coined the term “eugenics” to mean, “the study of agencies under social control that may improve or impair the...
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Apr 7, 20236 min read


Housing as a Human Right – Legislating the Issue: An Interview with Speaker K. Joseph Shekarchi
This is the first installment of Organizing Around Homelessness, a BPR interview series on the housing crisis in Rhode Island. K. Joseph...
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Apr 7, 20238 min read


Developments in Journalism from 1970 to Today: An Interview with Joan Lunden (Part 1: Women and Jour
Joan Lunden is a bestselling author, motivational speaker, and former co-host of Good Morning America. Lunden is the host of the PBS...
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Apr 6, 20236 min read


What Lowell High School Teaches Us About Educational Inequity in San Francisco
San Francisco’s Lowell High School is the oldest public high school west of the Mississippi River. It is one of California’s...
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Apr 3, 20235 min read


Teaching Well-being: Schools’ Responsibility to Address the Mental Health Crisis
[CW: This article contains mentions of self-harm/suicide and sexual violence.] “Adults don’t get all the pressure that teenage girls have...
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Apr 3, 20234 min read


OBIdients: A Light In The Dark for Nigeria
Nigeria is the world’s sixth-most populous country and the most populous nation in Africa. And, since the end of military rule in 1999,...
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Mar 31, 20235 min read
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