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BPR Interviews: Mei Fong
Mei Fong, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, has reported on the societal impacts of China’s burgeoning economy. Her most recent book,...
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Apr 5, 20164 min read
BPR Interviews: Jennicet Gutiérrez
Jennicet Gutiérrez is a transgender Latina activist and organizer with Familia: Trans Queer Liberation Movement. She gained national...
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Apr 5, 20162 min read


Leadership and Crisis in Taiwan’s Oldest Political Party
This party has a glorious history, but our legacy cannot be undone by the current generation,” pleaded Taipei City Councilor Lee Hsin,...
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Apr 5, 20165 min read


The Party’s Media: Free Speech and CCP Legitimacy
Last month, President Xi Jinping of China took a choreographed tour of the country’s largest media organizations, and, with the...
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Apr 4, 20165 min read


Who’s More Sacred: The God-Man or the Yamuna River?
March 11, 2016 marked the beginning of the three-day World Culture Festival (WCF) held in India’s capital, New Delhi, to celebrate “The...
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Apr 4, 20165 min read


Raising the Minimum Wage: a Clash of Values, Economics, and Innovation
Shamar El-Shabazz works at a Burger King in Delaware for the state minimum wage of $8.25 per hour. At 50 years old, he lives in a...
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Apr 4, 20165 min read


Football’s Fourth Quarter?
Peyton Manning, renowned for his legendary career as quarterback of the Indianapolis Colts and the Denver Broncos, has retired. His 18...
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Apr 2, 20166 min read


The Elusive Nature of the Hispanic Category
By 2060, 115 percent more Americans will be of Hispanic origin than in 2015. Consequently, pundits identify “the Hispanic vote” as the...
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Apr 2, 20167 min read


The Biden Rule and the Country’s Polarization
Judge Merrick Garland’s nomination to the US Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit in 1997 encountered similar obstacles to the ones he...
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Mar 30, 20166 min read


Why It Takes More Than a Whole Foods to Fix a Food Desert
Over the past six years, the Obama Administration has drawn government attention and funding toward the problem of America’s food...
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Mar 30, 20165 min read


Caste in Crisis: The Limits of Positive Discrimination in India
In mid-February, residents of Delhi were met with an unpleasant surprise: seemingly out of nowhere, an unprecedented water crisis forced...
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Mar 29, 20166 min read


The Resurrection of a Genre: Christian Films and Hollywood’s Polarization
Hollywood has rediscovered religion,” wrote Tatiana Siegel for The Hollywood Reporter in their latest magazine. And, she appears to be...
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Mar 28, 20166 min read


Fostering the Next Generation
In 2013, 28 percent of Rhode Island’s 1800 foster children were living in congregate care institutions, group homes in which children do...
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Mar 28, 20164 min read
The Irish Political Paralysis
Irish politics are in a state of paralysis — the recent general elections resulted in a hung Dáil (the lower house of the Irish...
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Mar 28, 20165 min read


BPR Interviews: Jane Ward
Jane Ward is an associate professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies at University of California, Riverside, where she teaches courses in...
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Mar 28, 20164 min read


BPR Interviews: Kenneth Roth
Kenneth Roth is the executive director of Human Rights Watch, one of the world’s leading international human rights organizations, which...
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Mar 28, 20164 min read


BPR Interviews: Regan Hofmann
Regan Hofmann is a HIV-positive woman and an internationally recognized authority on HIV/AIDS. She is currently the Policy Officer for...
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Mar 28, 20165 min read


BPR Interviews: Bill Keller
Bill Keller is the editor-in-chief of The Marshall Project, a nonprofit news organization focused on the American criminal justice...
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Mar 28, 20164 min read


BPR Interviews: Victor Fowler
Victor Fowler is a renowned Cuban writer of the Revolutionary Era. He has remained in Cuba and has published numerous essays and poetry...
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Mar 28, 20164 min read


A Plea to Integrate the Private Sector into Computer Science Curricula
Technology permeates almost every aspect of our lives, and its influence on us is only expected to grow. Yet, computer science is...
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Mar 26, 20165 min read
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