Negotiating with MS-13: Pragmatism, Corruption, or Both?
Outrage, shock and dismay greeted the publication of a report from El Faro news site claiming that El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele “cut...
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AMLO’s Amnesty Proposal: How Government Pardon in Mexico Adds Fuel to the Fire
Mere weeks before assuming office as the President of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, often referred to as AMLO, published an eight-pillared...
Dr. Cornel West keynote: Integrity, Honesty and Decency
By: Teréz Villeda-Medina “Brother King was a love warrior and a spiritual giant, but he didn’t get here by himself.”Photo courtesy of RISD On...
Democracy and the Experience of Incarceration In The U.S. and Syria by Abbi Kenny
Entering Brown University’s Stephen Robert Hall was an overwhelming ordeal, the hall was buzzing with activity from students, faculty, and guests...
The Filibuster and the Courts: How Bureaucracy Prevents Democratic Erosion by Dakota Fenn @ Brown University
When we think of the filibuster, we likely alternatively picture a glorious stand against the tyranny of the majority, or a waste of time created...
So you want to weaken your civil society? Cut off its foreign funding. By Victor Brechenmacher @ Brown University
On Saturday, Russian president Vladimir Putin signed into law a bill forcing all foreign-funded media in Russia to register as 'foreign agents.'...
Progress Is Not the Primary Concern for Progressives at the March for Racial Justice by Alexis Viera @ Brown University
The March for Racial Justice in Providence was not a march at all. A group of Providence’s activists and allies gathered on a green in India...
Polarization, Intersectionality, and Activism: The March for Racial Justice, RI by Rachel Risoleo @Brown University
On October 1, 2017, protestors in twenty cities across the country mobilized for the March for Racial Justice (“M4RJ”), a national effort that...
What Can the March for Racial Justice Teach Us About Democracy? by Dakota Fenn @ Brown University
On October 1st, nearly 11 months after the 2016 presidential election, I attended the “March for Racial Justice RI”. Although it is impossible to...