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A New Way to Look at Race
Rinku Sen ’88 is helping redefine how we think about racial conflict.
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Just the Facts
Glenn Kessler, the Washington Post fact checker, was especially busy last year.
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Legislative Baby
As Massachusetts’s youngest state rep, Solomon Goldstein-Rose ’16 hopes his success inspires others to get involved.
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Border Reversal
Silvia Giorguli PhD ’04 explores new U.S.-Mexico dynamics
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State of the Nation
A crowded forum featured DNC chair Tom Perez ’83
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The Gears of Racism
Exposing the structural bias behind Trayvon Martin’s murder
Humanities & Culture
Danger Zone
Alexandra Ulmer ’11: The reporting life in Venezuela
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Weather Warrior
Dispatches from the front lines of climate-change adaptation
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Pot Policy Wonk
Catherine Nacier ’19, ’23 PLME is obsessed with marijuana policy.
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Tomorrow’s Citizens
Scott Warren ’09 started a nationwide program that teaches students civics via local involvement.
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Rights, Now
Former Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards ’80 says there’s never been a better time to fight for change.
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Crossing the Political Divide
Americans are more divided than ever. Can we reclaim middle ground?
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Grassroots
Kira Ganga Kieffer ’08 and husband Aaron Eisman ’08 launch YouLobby.org
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Politician. Human.
Masterminding “authentic” political ads
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Dear President
A political scientist’s guide to the Constitution
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The Price of U.S. Global Policing
Brown researchers did the math.
Service & Advocacy
Student Journalists, Statewide Impact
An undergrad-reported series on elder abuse may influence Rhode Island policy.
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Across the Aisle
Republican and Democratic party leaders find common ground
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Our Incarceration Addiction
Why are so many Americans in jail? Liberals and conservatives may disagree on the reasons, but there’s some consensus on solutions.
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Fair Chance
Can you live a lawful life after prison?
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Political Player
Can Republicans reclaim the House in 2020?
The Arts
4 Pulitzers!
A professor emeritus and 3 alumni take the top honor
Politics & Law
Truth to Power
CNN and the role of the press during the Trump era
Politics & Law
Andrew Yang Wants to Give You $1,000
Andrew Yang ’96 and his surprisingly successful presidential candidacy.
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Dual Mayors
Brown alums take the reins in Greece’s two largest cities
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From Scholarship to Shelter
Student research bolstered legislation to stop housing discrimination in R.I.
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Hometown Advocate
The new mayor of Cambridge, Mass., fights to keep the city affordable
Humanities & Culture
Rotten Culture
Why removing “bad apples” won’t fix the police
Politics & Law
Going Up Against Goliath
He took on Providence Mayor Buddy Cianci and R.I. political corruption. Now he’s coming for Zuckerberg. The unlikely moral crusade of David Cicilline ’83.
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Coming to COVID Country
Brown’s international students face red tape and health hazards.
The Arts
Created Equal
RBG’s brilliant arguments in the fight for gender and racial equality.
Politics & Law
Capitalism on the Couch
A history course analyzes the social, political, and cultural underpinnings of our economic system.
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Use of Force
A conversation about police reform with Chicago’s new deputy inspector general for public safety
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Failure to Pay
Student journalists expose the ongoing, illegal practice of insisting court defendants pay fines they’ll never be able to afford.
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Lessons from the Arab Spring
The uprisings that overtook the Arab world 10 years ago sparked a wealth of new scholarship.
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Aim High
Can a decentralized, encrypted national gun registry bridge the partisan divide?
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Monetary Morality
Students often push the University to ditch “immoral” investments. Results have varied.
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Marketing Justice
Bill Marks ’75, CMO for social change
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Channeling Joe
The art and science of presidential speechwriting
Politics & Law
Emerald Cities
A pair of Brown alums–turned–local-officials lead the way on green energy.
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The Reformers
Four young Brown alums are working to make the Ocean State a better place for working-class people.
Politics & Law
Sex-Complaint Czar
Suzanne Goldberg ’85 now faces the challenge of her distinguished legal career—squaring Obama- and Trump-era rules.
Politics & Law
Getting There
The CEO of Philly’s transit authority is figuring out ways to improve riders’ lives
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Holding the Line
Through women’s empowerment groups, class action lawsuits, protests, and clinic defense, Brown students and alums have worked to obtain, preserve, and protect abortion rights for more than 50 years.
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Free and Fair Elections
New Jersey Secretary of State investigates fraud
Politics & Law
Through the Iron Curtain
As Russia’s war on Ukraine gives a new generation a taste of what authoritarianism is all about, Debby (Wilson) Pattiz ’89 remembers her semester on the other side of the Berlin Wall.
Politics & Law
17 Steps to Save the Planet
Paula Caballero ’84 came up with international goals for sustainable development, created a road map of how to get there—then got every nation on earth to agree.
Politics & Law
All the Pigs in China
To make good food choices these days, you have to sort out global trade, politics, and environmental issues. Even experts can’t do it.
Medicine & Health
Rx for “Information Disorder”
Disinformation is making us sick, literally. Asking the right questions and training the right people may be the cure.
Politics & Law
Global Gridlock
Can Dan Maffei ’90 speed up the supply chain?
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