Steven Brown has dedicated more than three decades to serving as the executive director of the Rhode Island affiliate of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). Prior to his long tenure in Rhode ...

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 ...

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.” ...

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 ...

Plummeting crime rates in El Salvador puts individual freedom on the scale against the safety of citizens.

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 ...

Despite multiple colonial erasure efforts, there are over 4,000 different Indigenous languages spoken worldwide. Indigenous peoples have tirelessly fought to maintain their languages as a core part of ...

Policy-makers in the United Kingdom face a difficult task as they tackle the question of how legislation could effectively reduce tobacco consumption in the nation given that simply the widespread ...

In 2023, a New York doctor died from an allergic reaction to food served at a Disney World restaurant, despite taking every precaution to notify the waiter of her allergy. Citing the restaurant’s ...

A Brown assistant professor with over 50 peer-reviewed publications, Jacqueline Nesi has garnered extensive media attention for her work studying the impacts of social media on adolescent mental ...

What a privilege it is to hate. To roil in anger or resentment. What satisfaction it brings us to share our ire with others and hear it echoed or reaffirmed. We feel validated—vindicated even—and, ...

Amidst the snowy Green Mountains of Vermont, dotted with general stores and frozen ponds, a crisis is brewing in the dairy industry. Dairy farming has been a staple of Vermont’s economy for ...