Jennifer Nuzzo, director of the Pandemic Center and Professor of Epidemiology at Brown University, reviews depictions of epidemics in Twilight (2008), The Last of Us (2023), Outbreak (1995), and ...

Fifty years ago, on April 13, 1975, the Lebanese Civil War officially began. The war devastated Lebanon’s economy, infrastructure, and social structure, and culminated in a sectarian model of ...

US Senator Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) is Michigan’s newly elected junior senator. After serving three successive terms representing Michigan’s 7th and 8th Congressional districts, she outperformed Kamala ...

South Korea is in desperate need of chaebol and constitutional reform to put an end to the cycle of corruption.

Imagine the world-famous American breakfast: a stack of pancakes dripping in maple syrup, bacon, eggs, and, of course, a glass of Florida orange juice. But this iconic assemblage is in danger—citrus ...

Today, hundreds of community members assembled in front of the federal court building in Downtown Providence to protest Elon Musk and President Donald Trump. The event was organized by Indivisible ...

Josh Pacewicz is an Associate Professor of Sociology and Urban Studies at Brown University. His research examines the creation of the American state and subnational governance, particularly the ...

Although the geopolitics of the South China Sea can serve as a warning, it should not be used as a comparison for the Arctic Sea.

illustration by Isabela Guillen ’27, an Illustration Major at RISD and Illustrator for BPR " Eighty-four percent of Greenlanders currently support independence—the biggest question for years has not ...

“She seemed some sort of genetic anomaly, a combination of every positive quality a human being should have: bright, hardworking, tall, and beautiful”—this is how Vice President JD Vance recalls ...

The Indian state’s manipulation of social media platforms was also particularly evident during the height of the 2020-2021 Indian Farmers’ Protests. The backlash began when the BJP, in an attempt to ...

Beside my grandparents’ apartment door stands a potted plant with a note to fellow building occupants, handwritten in Azerbaijani by my grandfather: “Бура кул габы деjил,” or “This is not an ashtray.” ...