In the early hours of December 2nd, Senate Republicans passed a haphazardly written tax bill which, in its current form, perpetuates the rise of socioeconomic inequality and disproportionately affects …
War on the Horizon: Reflection on the The U.S. Patriot Act and Civil Liberties by Roxana Sanchez @ Brown University
With the recent political escalations between the United States and North Korea, war seems on the horizon. Political scientists Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt published an op-ed in the New York …
Western Media Missteps in Coverage of Mongolian Presidential Election by Talia Brenner @Brown University
Western media does not cover much about Mongolia. Most Americans likely know about Chinggis (Genghis) Khan and the Mongol Empire, yurts, and Central Asian steppes. Geopolitically, they might know …
India’s informal workers are talking. Federalism forces their leader’s to listen. By Amalia Perez @ Brown University.
Informal workers—those laborers who, by definition, are "employed in enterprises that use power and employ fewer than 10 people or do not use power and employ fewer than 20 people "— comprise a …
Where there’s smoke, there’s fire: Honduras, Bolivia, and Executive Aggrandizement in 2017. By Amalia Perez @ Brown University.
Honduras, the will of the Honduran people, and the state of the country's democracy are — as we speak — under attack by the country's president, Juan Orlando Hernández Alvaro. A 6 PM curfew has been …
Want to Stop Media Polarization? Think About Editorial Policy by Artur Avkhadiev @ Brown University
We talk a lot about polarization of free media in the U.S. and around the world. In doing so, we mostly focus on how we consume news — for example, through preferential viewing of cable channels or …