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网页2024年9月9日 · You Are What You Eat: How Free Trade Shapes Obesity Rates. the Brown Political Review is Brown's entirely student-run political publication. Across our ten boards, undergraduates explore the most pressing political issues of our day.
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网页Brown Political Review is Brown University’s entirely student-written and student-run, nonpartisan magazine for political journalism. Founded in 2012, BPR aims to bring high-quality reporting on regional, national, and international politics to Brown, the Providence community, and beyond. Brown Political Review publishes a print magazine four times a year and updates this website daily with ...
Democracy in Danger: A Conversation with Tom Nichols
网页2023年12月13日 · Nichols is a staff writer for The Atlantic and the author of the book, The Death of Expertise. His ideas on why Americans have begun privileging lay opinion over expertise, landed him the #13 spot in Politico’s Top 50 “ideas blowing up American politics” nearly six years ago. Tom Nichols also taught at the US Naval War College and Harvard ...
Economically Rational but Politically Unacceptable: The Climate …
网页2023年10月29日 · Around 90 percent of Bank holdings are in callable capital—funds only available in the event of a crisis—and the Bank’s greatest asset is its AAA credit rating, which allows it to borrow at low interest rates. Banga worries that if countries default on their debts, he would be forced to call up capital, shaking investor confidence. This would prevent the Bank from offering favorable ...
A Historical Look at China-Taiwan Relations - Brown Political …
网页2021年11月25日 · A Historical Look at China-Taiwan Relations. China-Taiwan relations are at their “ worst in 40 years.”. There are “ confirmed US troops in Taiwan.”. And 150 mainland aircrafts entered Taiwan’s air defense identification zone in four days…. The continuous rise of hostility across the Taiwan strait has again seized international ...
No Experience Necessary: The Surge of Anti-Establishment …
网页2023年11月18日 · In 2018, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, someone with no prior political experience, defeated 10-term incumbent Joseph Crowley by almost 15 percentage points.Her campaign video stated that “this race is about people vs. money. We’ve got people, they’ve got money.”
Make Civil Service, Not Civil War - Brown Political Review
网页2022年11月6日 · America faces the highest level of political polarization since the Civil War. One solution to combat partisan animosity and foster a sense of unity among Americans is mandatory national service. A required year of civil service for all 18-year-olds would not only build empathy among young people, it would fundamentally change the relationship Americans have with their country.
The Facade of Worker Power - Brown Political Review
网页2022年10月28日 · The Facade of Worker Power. For the past two years, the nature of work in the United States changed drastically. From March 2021 to July 2022, at least 3.7 million workers quit their jobs every month, the highest level on record since the Bureau of Labor Statistics first started collecting data in 2000. As the coronavirus pandemic led more ...
The 2022 Midterms: A Victory for Normalcy - Brown Political Review
网页2022年12月9日 · Democrats also achieved unified control over state governments in Minnesota, Massachusetts, and Maryland, and made significant state legislative gains in Pennsylvania and New Hampshire.These state-level successes against many election-denying Republican candidates mark an important victory for American democracy.
Reforming Our Democracy - Brown Political Review
网页2021年11月18日 · Lawrence Norden is the director of the Election Reform Program at the Brennan Center for Justice, where he leads the Center’s work in a variety of focus areas including campaign finance reform, combatting voter suppression, ensuring that American election administration is safe and secure, and combatting disinformation and foreign interference in US elections. Norden is the author of The ...