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From Railroad: Vote Yes on Divest
Railroad is a collective of prison abolitionists, criminal justice reformers, and others working in solidarity with communities and organizations in Providence …
Week in $$$
One-Student Schoolhouse Facing overcrowding last school-year in Cheyenne, Wyoming school administrators resorted to shuffling students around the district in an effort …
Everything But the Kitchen Sink
How Modern Monetary Theory reimagines government spending
A few weeks ago, a group of children confronted Senator Dianne Feinstein to plead for her to make a commitment to …
Week in Upgrades
Robots Hit the Rhodes Years from now, in the throes of the Artificial Intelligence Takeover we all know is coming, when …
Captioning Fascism
Memes, misinformation, and political fatigue in Bolsonaro's Brazil
“Don’t worry, everybody, everything will get better after the 2014 World Cup.” This tweet has been immortalized in reaction GIFs, YouTube …
Week in Jam
LOST IN TRANSLATION, ONCE AGAIN Ariana Grande, America’s sweetheart as of late, continued our country’s long-standing tradition of getting a tattoo …
Overdue Justice
Establishing adequate reparations for the victims from the U.S. Public Health Service S.T.D. inoculation experiments in Guatemala
content warning: torture, gore, sexual abuse The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiments were an infamous and unethical series of clinical studies conducted on …
Week in (Mis)communication
LMS for Salvation Pope Francis wants you to know he’s not a regular pope, he’s a cool pope. With the recent …
Striking a Deal
LA teachers push for a more equitable public school system
Standing on the front steps of LA City Hall, Alex Caputo-Pearl, president of the United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA), shouted into …
Week in Closing Time
Going O’Naturel Imagine this: a spacious, vibrant dining hall fills with an ensemble of chattering individuals in minimal dress. The guests, …
Misreadings and Misgivings
Understanding the Venezuelan presidential crisis
It was a sight to behold. On January 23, hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans took to the streets to denounce the …
State of Affairs
Protests build momentum in Sudan and France
Media outlets largely focus on specific moments in time, framing events as singular instances while often ignoring their historical and political …
Week in Digital Drama
"Facebook gains nothing from this meme" If you haven’t deactivated your social media accounts out of fear of breaches in privacy, …
Week in Compassionate Capitalism
STEM or: HOW GIRL SCOUTS LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE BOMB content warning: military violence At last month’s Macy’s …
Chinga las Armas
SOA, Plan Merida, and how the US funds gun violence in Mexico
December 10 marks the 12th year anniversary of the War on Drugs in Mexico. As of November 2018, 250,000 people are …
Week in Double Deals
Flushing the Swamp Never in the history of electoral politics has the accusation “My opponent is full of shit” been used …
Tough Love
I came around to Angela Merkel. Now she´s on her way out.
Germany’s historically early exit from the World Cup this year wasn’t the summer’s only national tragedy. Almost immediately following the Nationalelf’s …
The Children Who Leave and the Burden They Carry
Professor, activist, and journalist Irma Alicia Velásquez Nimatuj on her commitment to justice and fighting for Indigenous communities in Guatemala
content warning: state violence, racism “They leave because they want to break the curse that steals their dreams the moment they …
Week in Puppets
DANCE LIKE NOBODY'S WATCHING “This is interpretive dance—also known as Mooch Moves—for my time in the White House.” Last Monday, the …
Beyond the Candidates
An independent midterms rundown
Here we thread together national stories, revealed not through House or Senate races, but through ballot measures and referendums, speaking to …
Week in Subcultures
POW! WHAM! CHOMP? Let this serve as a lesson to all New England exotic pet owners and comic book lovers: you …
Impossible Justice
Interview with Liz Sly, Washington Post ... reporter on the Middle East
content warning: war, murder, sexual violence Liz Sly is the Washington Post’s bureau chief in Beirut, Lebanon, a position she has …
Week in Stunts
ACCIDENTAL ALTERCATIONS In a dramatic reveal last Wednesday, Rhode Island’s very own Joe Trillo acknowledged that yes, okay, he may have …
The Face of Fascism
Brazil’s presidential election heads for disaster
content warning: political violence, racism, classism, misogyny, sexual violence, homophobia, transphobia, death, torture Public statements made by Jair Messias Bolsonaro, the …
Yankees Go Home
US approaches to the Venezuelan crisis
“America stands with every person living under a brutal regime,” claimed President Trump in his proclamation declaring National Hispanic Heritage Month …
Week In Denmark
BRICK BY BRICK Conservationists keen on toy block reconstructions of Death Stars and Taj Mahals can finally rejoice: Lego is ditching …
Week In Running
Uptown Rats, Not So Whitebread World Billy Joel pointed out that the differences between the girls of the Upper East Side …
Judge, Jury, and Executioner
Life and Death in Nebraska
cw: graphic depictions of death, racial violence On the night of September 1, 1994, local news anchors Loretta Caroll and John …
Keeping Families Together (In Detention)
A "new" Flores Settlement and the move from family separation to family imprisonment
The names and biographical information stated below have been altered to protect the identities of the children and their mothers who …
Week in Shiny Objects
Somewhere Under the Rainbow Just over 13 years ago, a pair of iconic ruby slippers from the Wizard of Oz was …
Week in Failed Businesses
BLUE AT ONE TIME, GREEN AT ANOTHER This past week, more than 11,000 tourists visited Walden Pond in Concord, Massachusetts, home …
“Private” Violence, Public Concern
Jeff Sessions’ Disregard for Decades of Women’s and Migrants’ Rights Activism
“Generally, claims by aliens pertaining to domestic violence or gang violence perpetrated by non-governmental actors will not qualify for asylum.” In …
Private Eyes
Cambridge Analytica and the new frontier of internet privacy
This past month, Cambridge Analytica has made its way into our consciousness and, for those of us unfortunate enough to be …
Week in Unrequited Love
Say No to Marriage According to relationship guru magazine, Cosmopolitan, one in four women will turn down a marriage proposal in …
Behind the Braids
Students, farmworkers, and the Fair Food Program
During spring of 2015, my first year at Brown, I participated in a campus-wide movement called #MoneyTalksAtBrown. This student-organized march and …
Week in Hot Takes
With Flying Colors When Nick Burchill arrived at Victoria’s Fairmont Empress hotel in April, 2001, he was carrying a suitcase full …
Strike While the Iron is Hot
The Oklahoma Education Association and the fight for a livable wage
On Monday, April 2, an estimated 30,000 Oklahoma public school teachers converged on the Oklahoma Capitol, coinciding with a walkout that …
Week in Facebook
Analog Apology Much to the surprise of everyone, Mark Zuckerberg apologized to humanity last week for the harm he has caused …
Who is Deemed Worthy
How America has delegitimized Black youth activism
On February 20, nearly a week after the Parkland High School shooting, 100 students from the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School …
Week in Messy Politics
Revolutionary Criminals People who work for the government in Rhode Island aren’t the best at playing by the rules. In the …