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Racing Against Time
For many, the winter months mean more than holidays and spending time with family; breaks from work or school are often associated with a...
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Sep 20, 20195 min read


Keepin’ It Brief
There’s no denying that we currently live in an age of social media, where Twitter serves as the main method of communication between the...
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Sep 20, 20193 min read


No Taxation Without Expatriation
Meet Fabien Lehagre. He moved from California to France at the age of two when his French father and American mother divorced. Now, in...
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Sep 20, 20194 min read


Revamping Consent Decrees
Vampire Weekend is back. And for every pretentious twenty-something who likes alluding to Brideshead Revisited and sleeping with a copy...
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Sep 20, 20194 min read


The Price of Reform
In 1955, Jonas Salk announced that his polio vaccine was 90 percent effective and safe to distribute to children and adults. After...
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Sep 20, 20194 min read


The Rhode to Recovery
Although America’s opioid epidemic is already killing formerly incarcerated individuals at staggering rates, prison and jails across the...
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Sep 20, 20196 min read


Bad Refugees and Recalcitrant Countries
Back in December, The Atlantic broke the story that the Trump administration was in talks with their Vietnamese counterparts to...
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Sep 20, 20195 min read


Joke Like an Egyptian
On November 16, 2017, Egyptian satirist Islam al-Rifai walked into a trap set by authorities. The comedian believed he was attending a...
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Sep 20, 20194 min read


Suspension Intervention
Horace Mann, a champion of public schools and a Brown alumnus, dubbed education the “great equalizer of the conditions of men.” However,...
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Sep 20, 20194 min read


Danger Zone
There is no denying that Providence is in the midst of an affordable housing crisis: For the 40 percent of Rhode Island residents who are...
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Sep 20, 20195 min read


How Do We Save our World? Understanding the Scope and Limitations to Using Business for Change
Doing good is “in” and pure profit is “out”; the world has become increasingly focused on using businesses for good and allowing the...
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Sep 19, 20196 min read


Evo’s Choice: Bolivia’s Path to the Sea at a Crossroads
October 1, 2018. Bolivian President Evo Morales is not having a good day. The verdict is slow and painful. After a painfully long 80...
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Aug 26, 20194 min read


Tough Days Ahead
In his inaugural address, newly elected Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro declared he would free the country from “socialism and...
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Aug 26, 20194 min read


Every Rose Has its Thorn: Exposing Colombia’s Cut Flower Industry
Most Americans might not know it, but the vast majority of the cut flowers sold throughout the country are grown and exported out of...
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Jul 23, 20195 min read


Keep Your Friends Close and Your Enemies Closer: The University and the Marketplace of Free Ideas
On October 30, 2013, student grievances at Brown University reached a boiling point. When New York City Police Commissioner Ray Kelly...
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Jul 23, 20199 min read


The Comedian President: Volodymyr Zelensky’s Victory in the April 2019 Ukrainian Elections
“ARMY, LANGUAGE, FAITH,” mockingly boomed an actor playing Petro Poroshenko, the former president of Ukraine, to an enthralled crowd in a...
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Jul 23, 20195 min read


The United States’ Most Influential Referees: Debate Moderation’s Value in the 2020 Pres
The 2020 Presidential campaigns have thus far been characterized by lofty, idealistic promises for change. These types of simplistic and...
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Jul 23, 20194 min read


No, President El-Sisi is not Making Egypt Safer for Women
On August 12, 2018, the Egyptian government ratified the Anti-Cyber and Information Technology Crimes Law, a measure outwardly aiming to...
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Jun 11, 20197 min read


Geoengineering Climate Change
Last month, an unusually optimistic development regarding climate change garnered international attention at the UN Environmental...
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Jun 11, 20195 min read


The Islamic State and Afghanistan’s Hazaras
Insofar as the defeat of Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) merits international delight, its emergence in Afghanistan has...
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Jun 11, 20193 min read
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