“If they don’t pay,” President Donald Trump warned of NATO allies, “I’m not going to defend them.” Currently, his official position is that the United States would reconsider its defense commitments if its allies fail to demonstrate resol...
Tropical forests are one of our most crucial defenses against climate change, but they are disappearing at an alarming rate. A record 6.7 million hectares of rainforest were lost in 2024, largely due to agriculture and human-caused wildfires—result...
Picture this: You are freshly 16 years old, zooming down the New Jersey Turnpike with music blasting at 2 AM, hitting 103 miles per hour like it is nothing. The feeling is nipped by the glare of flashing blue lights. Panic does not set in, however, b...
On most days, Central is Hong Kong’s swarming business district: Thousands of suits and pencil skirts transform its streets into a sea of black as myriad professionals lend a vibrant hum to one of the globe’s greatest financial centers. On Sunday...
On most days, Central is Hong Kong’s swarming business district: Thousands of suits and pencil skirts transform its streets into a sea of black as myriad professionals lend a vibrant hum to one of the globe’s greatest financial centers. On Sunday...
The Human Rights Watch World Report recently condemned Australia’s “draconian new policies” towards asylum seekers and refugees. The country’s current policy, which consists of detaining and processing asylum seekers off its shores, has spurr...
The Human Rights Watch World Report recently condemned Australia’s “draconian new policies” towards asylum seekers and refugees. The country’s current policy, which consists of detaining and processing asylum seekers off its shores, has spurr...
Call it the luck of the Irish. Shares of Dublin-based airline Aer Lingus plummeted this February on speculation that the Irish government would reject a €1.36 billion offer to purchase the company. The buyer was International Airlines Group (IAG), ...
Call it the luck of the Irish. Shares of Dublin-based airline Aer Lingus plummeted this February on speculation that the Irish government would reject a €1.36 billion offer to purchase the company. The buyer was International Airlines Group (IAG), ...
Thomas Perez ’83, a Brown alumnus who holds a master of public policy and a law degree from Harvard University, is the US Secretary of Labor and the former Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights of the US Department of Justice. Brown Political...
Thomas Perez ’83, a Brown alumnus who holds a master of public policy and a law degree from Harvard University, is the US Secretary of Labor and the former Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights of the US Department of Justice. Brown Political...
Dr. Reza Aslan is the author of the New York Times Bestseller “Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth.” Currently a professor of creative writing at the University of California, Riverside, Aslan was born in Iran and holds a BA in Religi...
Dr. Reza Aslan is the author of the New York Times Bestseller “Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth.” Currently a professor of creative writing at the University of California, Riverside, Aslan was born in Iran and holds a BA in Religi...
Katherine Mangu-Ward is the managing editor of Reason Magazine, the news arm of the libertarian policy center Reason Foundation. A featured panelist in BPR’s recent family weekend media event, she is a 2013-2014 Future Tense fellow at the New Ameri...
Katherine Mangu-Ward is the managing editor of Reason Magazine, the news arm of the libertarian policy center Reason Foundation. A featured panelist in BPR’s recent family weekend media event, she is a 2013-2014 Future Tense fellow at the New Ameri...
Junot Díaz, the 2008 winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction for his novel “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao,” is a professor of writing at the Massachusetts Institutes of Technology. A fiction editor at Boston Review and a 2012 MacArthur ...
Junot Díaz, the 2008 winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction for his novel “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao,” is a professor of writing at the Massachusetts Institutes of Technology. A fiction editor at Boston Review and a 2012 MacArthur ...
Joel Simon is the executive director of the Committee to Protect Journalists, an independent nonprofit that provides assistance to journalists in dangerous situations around the globe. Brown Political Review: News organizations have recently slashed...
Joel Simon is the executive director of the Committee to Protect Journalists, an independent nonprofit that provides assistance to journalists in dangerous situations around the globe. Brown Political Review: News organizations have recently slashed...
Dawn K. Smith is an epidemiologist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). In May, the CDC began recommending that men who have sex with men (MSM), intravenous drug users and other high-risk groups take Truvada, a drug that can reduc...
Dawn K. Smith is an epidemiologist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). In May, the CDC began recommending that men who have sex with men (MSM), intravenous drug users and other high-risk groups take Truvada, a drug that can reduc...
Joe Scarborough is a former lawyer and the current host of the popular political commentary news program Morning Joe on MSNBC. He was a Republican congressman for Florida from 1995 to 2001. Brown Political Review: What do you think was the larges...
Joe Scarborough is a former lawyer and the current host of the popular political commentary news program Morning Joe on MSNBC. He was a Republican congressman for Florida from 1995 to 2001. Brown Political Review: What do you think was the larges...
Burma may be small, but it has withstood the longest ongoing civil war in the history of the modern world. Since its independence from Great Britain in 1948, the Burma National Army (BNA) has been engaged in battle with various internal ethnic minori...
Burma may be small, but it has withstood the longest ongoing civil war in the history of the modern world. Since its independence from Great Britain in 1948, the Burma National Army (BNA) has been engaged in battle with various internal ethnic minori...
In just the last year, there has been a 117 percent increase in the number of unaccompanied children under 12 apprehended while attempting to enter the United States illegally. This phenomenon has repeatedly been called an “urgent humanitarian situ...
In just the last year, there has been a 117 percent increase in the number of unaccompanied children under 12 apprehended while attempting to enter the United States illegally. This phenomenon has repeatedly been called an “urgent humanitarian situ...