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Day Fines: A First Step in Ending Mass Incarceration
In 2015, Finnish millionaire Reima Kuisla paid the equivalent of $59,677 after driving fifteen miles per hour above the speed limit. For...
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Nov 21, 20195 min read


BPR Interviews: Anton Howes on the Industrial Revolution
Anton Howes is an economic historian studying the industrial revolution. He is currently the in-house historian at the Royal Society for...
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Nov 21, 201919 min read


BPR Interviews: Ellen Malcolm
Ellen Malcolm is the founder of EMILY’s List, a political action committee that helps elect pro-choice Democratic women. Now serving as...
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Nov 21, 20198 min read


When Schools get Schooled: A Look at the Providence State Takeover
Providence Public School Districts have an exceptionally low level of academic instruction, despite neighboring an elite Ivy League...
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Nov 21, 201910 min read


Doulas, Disparities, and Disentangling Maternal Mortality
The United States is home to the highest rate of maternal mortality in the developed world. In particular, African American women suffer...
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Nov 20, 20195 min read


Low-Hanging Fruit: GHG Emissions and Food Waste in the Supply Chain
According to the IPCC, as much as 37 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions come from agriculture and food production. Any strategy...
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Nov 20, 20194 min read


An Energy Bridge to Nowhere: The U.S. is Forging ‘Ahead’ with Natural Gas
Despite his promises, Trump has not been able to save coal for West Virginia and American coal country. Instead, coal-fired plants are...
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Nov 20, 20195 min read


American Big Tech Will Not Protect You
For the first 15 years of the 21st century, Democrats and Big Tech seemed to get along. There was something exciting and progressive...
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Nov 20, 20195 min read


Green Energy: Insurance for a Future Recession?
2008 is infamously known as the year the Great Recession began. The Great Recession was a period of global economic downturn from Q3-2008...
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Nov 20, 20194 min read


BPR Interviews: Greg Shill on the Dominance of the Car
Gregory H. Shill is a law professor at the University of Iowa College of Law. His recent work, including Should Law Subsidize Driving?...
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Nov 19, 201910 min read


The Progressive Facade of the LDS Church
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (LDS) recently made headlines for reversing a discriminatory LGBTQ policy, but is the...
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Nov 18, 20194 min read


A Picture’s Worth: A Thousand Words, A Lifetime of Pain
June was full of reports from officials of the squalid conditions at the border migrant detention camps. Tweets from Members of Congress...
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Nov 18, 20195 min read


Environmental Racism in Louisiana: Legislative Ambivalence Persists More Than a Decade After Katrina
“Hey! We need more water! We need help!” Thousands of people, pressed against metal barricades, shouted similar cries at the Louisiana...
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Nov 18, 20194 min read


America’s Vaping Problem
E-cigarette companies, which occupy a market valued at $11 billion, are now under fire for business malpractice as well as misleading and...
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Nov 15, 20195 min read


The Fallacy and Persistence of “Trickle-Down Economics”
In modern capitalism, the rich getting richer has become a regrettable truism; nowhere is this undeniable truth more evident than in the...
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Nov 15, 20196 min read


Adam Silver and the Slippery Slope of NBA Exceptionalism
Previously unknown outside of NBA circles, the analytics-minded general manager of the Houston Rockets Daryl Morey became famous within...
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Nov 15, 20195 min read


Presidential Overreach: Within and Beyond the Law
‘Enemy’ of the State, ‘bonehead’ and ‘pathetic’ sit among many other pleasant terms that President Trump has used to describe Jerome...
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Nov 15, 20195 min read


America’s Power Problem
America’s energy sector and power grids are in crisis. According to the American Society of Civil Engineers’ (ASCE) 2017 Infrastructure...
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Nov 15, 20196 min read


Facebook’s crypto venture
“We’re going to change the world”, claimed Facebook executive David Marcus last May when Facebook announced plans to launch its own...
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Nov 13, 20194 min read


Work in Progress: Qatar’s Labor Reforms
“There is no chance to ask for your rights. You just wake up, go to work, and when [your time’s up], go home.” This is the grim reality...
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Nov 13, 20194 min read
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