A blue passport can get you far. The leatherbound booklet denotes association with the ‘New World’ and grants access to an unprecedentedly high degree of global mobility and embassy protection — ...

illustration by Jacquelyn Rich ’28, an Illustration major at RISD and Illustrator for BPR Players of popular open-world racing game The Crew knew the servers would eventually shut down. Ubisoft had ...

Accra, Ghana. Cheers erupt from the gathered crowd as a man’s name is announced. Clad in a red beret and a camouflage uniform, the national flag stitched onto his sleeve features a yellow star, not ...

illustration by Emily McShane ’29, a Film/Animation/Video major at RISD and Illustrator for BPR "Shutdowns are a striking example of American exceptionalism in that they are a byproduct of ...

illustration by Jiwon Lim ’26, an Illustration major at RISD and Illustrator for BPR Emily Dickinson has lost her most beloved friend. Penned in alternating lengths, angles, and fervor, the em-dash ...

Tech executives have spent the last two years making sweeping claims about what AI will mean for human labor. In a December 2025 study by the Harvard Business Review, 90 percent of executives surveyed ...

“I’d like to be Pope,” said the President of the United States of America, Donald Trump. Days later, he posted an AI-generated image of himself scowling while clothed in full papal regalia and ...

In an interview from June of last year, billionaire venture capitalist Peter Thiel was asked a seemingly trivial question: “I think you would prefer the human race to endure, right?” Yet Thiel ...

Bad Bunny may not be running for office, but the global pop star has been louder than most politicians about what Puerto Rico lacks: autonomy. He is extremely vocal with his advocacy, his fear of ...

It’s easy to assume that air pollution is a relic of America’s industrial past: a phenomenon that belonged to the age of steel mills and smog-choked skylines. But drive through the petrochemical ...

“No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider.” These are the 26 words that ...

Anna Zavelson is an Asian American actress who starred as Young Allie in the Broadway musical The Notebook, and is currently acting in an off-Broadway production of Masquerade. She has been acting, ...