The Next Big Question
I am a big fan of bars as a social equalizer. I believe bars are one of the last places in modern America where it remains socially acceptable to talk to strangers. So put your phone away. Anyway, I happened to be in a Providence Bar on the day Governor Chaffee signed marriage equality into [...]
Searching for Scandal, While Good Government Withers
The media likes narratives, probably because the public likes narratives. The media has been trying to shoehorn the three ongoing scandals at the White House – Benghazi, the IRS, and the Associated Press subpoenas – into a coherent story about this administration. This is difficult for several reasons, including the fact that the targeting of [...]
The Three C’s
Walking into MetroMart on Thayer, I pick up my third iPhone charger of the semester. I’m a forgetful person usually, and iPhone chargers seem to have an uncommon knack of disappearing into the gaping maw of the Sun Lab or the SciLi, never to return. The small, green LCD screen on the cash register flashes [...]
What’s Your Favorite B-Side? More About Plan B Access
Friends, Romans, countrypeople, lend me your ears (…er, eyes?)—we’ve got a third week of Plan B coverage on our hands! Last Friday, May 10th, Judge Edward R. Korman “refused to lift his order that the Plan B emergency contraceptive be made available over the counter to women of all ages” (from SCOTUSblog), and gave the [...]
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The Next Big Question
I am a big fan of bars as a social equalizer. I believe bars are one of the last places in modern America where it remains socially acceptable to talk to strangers. So put your phone away. Anyway, I happened to be in a Providence Bar on the day Governor Chaffee signed marriage equality into [...]
Searching for Scandal, While Good Government Withers
The media likes narratives, probably because the public likes narratives. The media has been trying to shoehorn the three ongoing scandals at the White House – Benghazi, the IRS, and the Associated Press subpoenas – into a coherent story about this administration. This is difficult for several reasons, including the fact that the targeting of [...]
The Three C’s
Walking into MetroMart on Thayer, I pick up my third iPhone charger of the semester. I’m a forgetful person usually, and iPhone chargers seem to have an uncommon knack of disappearing into the gaping maw of the Sun Lab or the SciLi, never to return. The small, green LCD screen on the cash register flashes [...]
What’s Your Favorite B-Side? More About Plan B Access
Friends, Romans, countrypeople, lend me your ears (…er, eyes?)—we’ve got a third week of Plan B coverage on our hands! Last Friday, May 10th, Judge Edward R. Korman “refused to lift his order that the Plan B emergency contraceptive be made available over the counter to women of all ages” (from SCOTUSblog), and gave the [...]
Money for Peace?
“The Department of Defense has reached unprecedented levels of cooperation with the Jordanian armed forces…We have done that in light of what’s happening in Syria.” – Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, August 2012 As a result of the civil strife in Syria, approximately 1.5 million civilians have been displaced from their homes. About 400,000 of these Syrian refugees [...]
BPR Asks Craig R. Whitney: Good Guys v. Bad Guys?
Former New York Times Assistant Managing Editor Craig R. Whitney speaks to BPR about his new book, “Living with Guns: A Liberal’s Case for the Second Amendment.” BPR asked Whitney, “Is the only thing stopping a bad guy with a gun a good guy with a gun?” http://www.craigrwhitney.com
IRV: How to Improve Democracy in Just Three Letters
On the evening of April 21, members of the Brown community were sent an election update from UCS President Anthony White, ostensibly reporting the outcome of the recent UCS election. Instead, what we found in our inboxes was the following piece of electoral jargon:
Plan B and the Department of Justice
Hello readers! Did you take my advice from last week and follow the news? If not, I want to point out that, on April 30, the Food and Drug Administration announced that “it would make the most widely known morning-after pill available without a prescription to girls and women ages 15 and older, and also [...]