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When Companies Support Gun Control, but Politicians Do Not
Mass shootings and school shootings have become horrifically commonplace in 2018. Yet the February 14th Parkland, Florida school shooting...
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Apr 9, 20186 min read


Battle of Trenton 2.0: Cannabis Legalization and Racial Justice
Initially introduced to the United States by Mexican immigrants, legal cannabis has flourished in America in recent decades. Although...
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Apr 9, 20186 min read


Finding Fentanyl
Drug overdose is the leading cause of death in Americans under the age of 50, and in 2016 alone, drug overdoses killed over 64,000...
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Apr 7, 20186 min read


Little Rocket Man – North Korea’s Troubled Path to Denuclearization
The final days of the Olympic Winter Games in Pyeongchang kindled an inkling of hope that North Korea would start taking steps to enter...
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Apr 7, 20185 min read


Head in THE Cloud(s): What the U.S. v. Microsoft Case reveals about the Governmental Ramifications o
The Cloud represents a vast spatiotemporal reconfiguration of data storage. Time and geographical distance are ostensibly meaningless...
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Apr 7, 20186 min read


India’s “Invisible” Middle Class
Consumer goods firms worldwide are optimistic about their current and future investments in India, and with good reason. India’s...
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Apr 7, 20185 min read


Chinese Capital Comes to the Middle East
The Middle East has been a key strategic area for centuries, with the Russian, British, Portuguese, French and Ottoman Empires all...
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Apr 6, 20187 min read


BPR Interviews: Jessie Handbury
Jessie Handbury is Assistant Professor of Real Estate at the Wharton School at University of Pennsylvania, NBER Research Fellow, and Penn...
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Apr 2, 20183 min read


BPR Interviews: Hank Herrera
Hank Herrera is President & CEO of the Center for Popular Research, Education & Policy (C-PREP), a non-profit community-based...
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Apr 2, 20183 min read


BPR Interviews: Monica Ramírez
Monica Ramírez is a civil rights attorney, public speaker, and life-long activist who has spent the majority of her professional career...
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Apr 2, 20182 min read


BPR Interviews: Alissa Rubin
Alissa Rubin currently works as the Paris bureau chief of The New York Times. In 2016, she won the Pulitzer Prize, “for thoroughly...
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Apr 2, 20182 min read


BPR Interviews: Ernie Stevens III
Ernie Stevens III is a council member on the Business Committee of Oneida Nation in Wisconsin. Councilman Stevens was named one of the...
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Apr 2, 20183 min read


Opioid Manufacturers Feel the Pain From Lawsuits
10,000 more Americans die per year from opioid overdoses than during the peak of the AIDS epidemic. Drug overdoses, a large majority of...
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Apr 2, 20186 min read


The Romanticization of Billy Graham’s Non-Partisanship
Billy Graham, the famous American evangelical preacher, undoubtedly had a lasting impact on American religion and its relationship with...
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Apr 1, 20185 min read


Janus and the Two Faces of Labor Union Future
Like Janus–the Roman god with two faces–the Supreme Court case Janus vs. American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees...
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Apr 1, 20185 min read


Parkland Students Set the Stage for American Politics’ Youth Movement
Over one month after the horrific school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, the debate about the...
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Mar 29, 20185 min read


Getting Off Track: Evaluating MTA Construction Priorities
The New York City Subway system is in a state of complete disarray. Currently, only 65 percent of subway trains arrive at their...
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Mar 29, 20185 min read


Cape Town in Deep Water During Drought
While the debate over the existence of global warming continues to draw attention, the worst-case scenarios of climate change are already...
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Mar 29, 20187 min read


Foxtrot: A Study in Self-Criticism
If any line could summarize the politics of Israeli-produced film Foxtrot, it is perhaps the one elaborating on the film’s own title....
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Mar 29, 20183 min read


Racist Flyers at Brown University
On February 5, Providence community advocates, leaders, and residents gathered to encourage unity and condemn bigotry in response to...
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Mar 29, 20184 min read
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