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WEBBrown Political Review is Brown University’s entirely student-written and student-run, nonpartisan magazine for political journalism. Founded in 2012, BPR aims to bring high-quality reporting on regional, national, and international politics to Brown, the Providence community, and beyond. Brown Political Review publishes a print magazine four times a year and updates this website daily with ...
The Linguistic Colonialism of English - Brown Political Review
WEBApr 25, 2017 · The Linguistic Colonialism of English. Some argue that the historical and current bloodshed of Western imperialism has transformed the English language into a universal tool of communication. Through centuries of colonialism, neocolonialism, Cold War expansionism, and, most recently, globalization, the …
Let Them Eat Cheese: How Vulnerable Populations Pay for the US …
WEBMay 28, 2018 · ne hundred feet underground, temperatures normally hover around 58 degrees Fahrenheit. In this man-made cave, however, it’s a cool 36. An elaborate system of pumps runs a steady stream of coolants from aboveground to protect the buried inventory. Thousands of red, orange, and yellow barrels line the floor like an industrial sunset, each oversized trashcan weighing 680 pounds and filled […]
Lessons of 2008: What the US Learned from the Great Recession
WEBNov 12, 2020 · The recent history of the world economy has been one scarred with recurring crises. The financial crisis of 2008 delivered a severe blow to the global economy, but it would be dwarfed in 2020 by the recession induced by the Covid-19 pandemic. In both instances, economists largely agreed upon the urgency of substantive expansionary monetary and fiscal policy.
Minnesota: Land of 10,000 Progressive Policies
WEBOct 29, 2023 · Minnesota, long a purple state, finally won a Democratic trifecta in 2022, allowing it to pass progressive policy for the first time in years. Its success, in spite of the odds, provides lessons for deep-blue states which have experienced legislative stagnation.
Religion, Politics, and Truth: An Interview with Simon Blackburn
WEBJul 13, 2021 · Simon Blackburn is one of the world’s leading academic philosophers. Over the course of his extensive career, Mr. Blackburn has taught at Oxford University, the University of Cambridge, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has published countless books and essays on topics ranging from the philosophy of language to the nature of truth to atheism. Additionally, […]
The Fallacy and Persistence of “Trickle-Down Economics”
WEBNov 15, 2019 · The comprehensive analyses refuting trickle-down theory are numerous. A recent study found that tax cuts for lower-income groups do tend to facilitate encouraging employment growth, but that tax cuts for the upper 10 percent have a muted effect on job creation. This reflects the basic flaw in the philosophy of supply-side economics as a viable approach to advantaging the lower classes, as this ...
Personal Space and American Individualism - Brown Political Review
WEBOct 31, 2018 · Personal space is defined as the invisible bubble that surrounds a person’s body during an interaction. In 2001, researchers analyzed the distance that people of different cultures maintained when talking with someone, and found that people from the US and the UK maintained the largest personal distance …
Institutional Gaslighting: Investigations to Silence the Victim and ...
WEBApr 5, 2019 · When someone expects to trust the judgment of an institution, but the institution then betrays justice, survivors are gaslighted. For instance, Harvard University’s Office for Dispute Resolution (ODR) was created to pose as an impartial investigative process to Harvard students, faculty, and affiliates, particularly for sexual or …
Borders and Identities - Brown Political Review
WEBApr 7, 2016 · Borders are central to this identity creation. The physical border of the “wall” serves as an embodiment of the difference, real or imagined, between the US and Mexico. In recognizing that split and exaggerating the differences between the two countries, Trump forces the bifurcation of the two to the foreground of the argument.