Your Glasses Shouldn’t Be Able to Dox Me
CultureLaw/JusticeTechnologyUnited States

Your Glasses Shouldn’t Be Able to Dox Me

Putting on a pair of glasses should not be enough to identify a stranger, pull up their home address, and turn a chance encounter into a data profile. But in 2024, two Harvard students did exactly that. Using Meta’s Ray-Ban smart glasses, the facial-recognition search engine PimEyes, and public databases, they identified strangers in public and retrieved personal information, including […]
ISABELLA COLLINS

Culture Spotlight

Class Action

Class Action

MITSUKI JIANG
ArtsCultureEducationLaw/JusticeScienceUnited States
In 2024, The Boston Globe launched an unprecedented investigation into Massachusetts public schools, uncovering haunting stories of special-needs students’ parents attempting to navigate the education...
Boys Don’t Read: Male Reading Habits and the Educational Gender Gap

Boys Don’t Read: Male Reading Habits and the Educational Gender Gap

NIKOLAS GREBORUNIS
ArtsCultureEducationGenderUnited States
In 1976, a mere 50 years ago, men earned the majority of undergraduate degrees, the majority of master’s degrees, and over 75 percent of all doctoral degrees across the United States. By 1990, these n...
Are You Smart?

Are You Smart?

EVAN TAO
CultureMagazine
What do you think of when you imagine the act of thought? Western culture’s quintessential image of intelligence—Auguste Rodin’s sculpture The Thinker—depicts one man alone with his thoughts. A more a...
Bargaining Chips: Rethinking Labor Solidarity in the Age of Data Centers

Bargaining Chips: Rethinking Labor Solidarity in the Age of Data Centers

SONYA RASHKOVAN
CultureTechnologyUnited States
Computers—and therefore, the world— run on chips. The production of said chips is limited to just a few countries (primarily because of the immense fixed costs and supply chain clusters), namely South...

Arts & Expression

Beyond Parody: Why Satire will Not Cause the Revolution

Beyond Parody: Why Satire will Not Cause the Revolution

RACHEL EL GRABLY
ArtsCultureTechnologyUnited States
“I’d like to be Pope,” said the President of the United States of America, Donald Trump. Days later, he posted an AI-generated image of himself scowling while clothed in full papal regalia and insignia. Kristi Noem, Special Envoy for the Shield of the America, described shooting her puppy with pride...
Broadway Beneath The Surface: An Interview with Anna Zavelson

Broadway Beneath The Surface: An Interview with Anna Zavelson

AURNA MUKHERJEE
ArtsCultureInterviewsU.S.
Fighting Absurdity with Absurdity: An Interview with Rob Potylo 

Fighting Absurdity with Absurdity: An Interview with Rob Potylo 

CIARA LEONARD
ArtsCultureInterviewsU.S.
Climate Change, Technology, and the Role of Media Activism: An Interview with Jeff Orlowski

Climate Change, Technology, and the Role of Media Activism: An Interview with Jeff Orlowski

YULIYA VELHAN
ArtsInterviewsTechnology
BPR Interviews: Seal

BPR Interviews: Seal

AMELIA SPALTER
ArtsCultureInterviews
Beyond Rain Main: Diversifying Autism On Screen

Beyond Rain Main: Diversifying Autism On Screen

REGINA CAGGIANO
ArtsCulture

LGBTQ+ Politics

Bringing Men to the Front Lines for Reproductive Rights: An Interview with Oren Jacobson

Bringing Men to the Front Lines for Reproductive Rights: An Interview with Oren Jacobson

MATTHEW KOTCHER
GenderInterviewsLGBTQ+ PoliticsU.S.
Oren Jacobson is a national civic leader, organizer, and reproductive health activist residing in Illinois. Jacobson is a co-founder and the executive director of Men4Choice, an organization founded i...
Sex Will Destroy the GOP

Sex Will Destroy the GOP

GEORGE WEILER
ElectionsLGBTQ+ PoliticsUnited States
How 40 years of puritanical politics will finally come to an end
Sex, Death, and Other People’s Money – BPR Interviews: Copyslut

Sex, Death, and Other People’s Money – BPR Interviews: Copyslut

AMELIA SPALTER
CultureLGBTQ+ Politics
Copyslut is a band and artists’ collective who have been creating sex-magic, catharsis, and healing vibes since 2017. Also sex-positive sex educators, the band is led by Chatz of Love, an active sex-w...
Politics are a Drag

Politics are a Drag

TRISTAN HARRIS
CultureLGBTQ+ Politics
n June 2016, President Obama designated the Stonewall Inn a national monument – the first such monument dedicated to the LGBTQ movement. While Stonewall is often remembered as the birthplace of the “g...
Effigies, Cross-Dressing, and Flames: El Año Viejo in Quito, EcuadorPhotos

Effigies, Cross-Dressing, and Flames: El Año Viejo in Quito, Ecuador

LEYAD ZAVRIYEV
CultureMultimediaPhoto Essays and InfographicsWorld
Defending the Stranger

Defending the Stranger

CHARLOTTE PARK
CultureReligionUnited States
License to Learn

License to Learn

SONYA RASHKOVAN
CultureLaw/JusticeScienceTechnologyUnited States
Labubu-25 Pandemic

Labubu-25 Pandemic

NINA SUELLENTROP
CultureHigh School ProgramUnited States
Athletes’ Political Playbook

Athletes’ Political Playbook

LEV KOTLER-BERKOWITZ
CultureUnited States
Out of Office: The Need for Worker-Centered AI

Out of Office: The Need for Worker-Centered AI

SONYA RASHKOVAN
CultureEconomyScienceTechnologyUnited States
Tech executives have spent the last two years making sweeping claims about what AI will mean for human labor. In a December 2025 study by the Harvard Business Review, 90 percent of executives surveyed reported seeing a “moderate or a great deal of value from AI.” But public statements from prominent...
Bread, Circuses, and Sitting Ringside

Bread, Circuses, and Sitting Ringside

CHIUPONG HUANG
CultureUnited States
From Model Minority to Political Target: The Indian American Experience 

From Model Minority to Political Target: The Indian American Experience 

EMILY PAN
CultureRaceUnited States
Big Brother(s) Are Watching

Big Brother(s) Are Watching

SABINE CLADIS
CultureTechnologyUnited States
White House Experts on the East Ballroom and Past White House Renovations: Interviews with Diana Carlin and Anita McBride

White House Experts on the East Ballroom and Past White House Renovations: Interviews with Diana Carlin and Anita McBride

JACK DIPRIMIO
CultureInterviewsU.S.

Gender

A Different Playing Field

A Different Playing Field

EMILY SCHREIBER
GenderHealthUnited States
During the most-watched sporting event in the United States, Dove ran a commercial about young girls in sports. Last February, we saw preteen girls celebrating their love for athletics, while the text...
Equal Pay for Equal Work: An Interview with Midge Purce

Equal Pay for Equal Work: An Interview with Midge Purce

BENJAMIN STERN
GenderInterviewsMagazineU.S.
Margaret “Midge” Purce is a professional soccer player for NJ/NY Gotham FC with 30 caps for the US Women’s National Team (USWNT), as well as an outspoken advocate for gender equality, equal pay, and e...
The Parasocial Network

The Parasocial Network

ASHTON HIGGINS
EconomyGenderHealthHealthMagazineTechnologyUnited States
The loneliness pandemic has led Gen Z to seek imagined intimacy through influencers.
Parenthood for Sale

Parenthood for Sale

GRACE CHAIKIN
Foreign PolicyGenderHealthUnited States
Support for adoption transcends bipartisan politics. It is reflected in our popular culture, from Juno to The Blind Side. For the average American, the typical portrayal of adoption features a loving...

Race

Reimagining Race and America: An Interview with Eddie Glaude Jr.

Reimagining Race and America: An Interview with Eddie Glaude Jr.

ELIJAH DAHUNSI
InterviewsRaceU.S.
Eddie Glaude Jr. is a James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University. In addition to being a renowned scholar, he is a public intellectual an...
Digital Blackface is Minimizing White Response to Violence Against Black Women

Digital Blackface is Minimizing White Response to Violence Against Black Women

KARA MCANDREW
RaceUnited States
Digital blackface and misogynoir in the media desensitize white Americans to violence against Black women. Thus, the lack of publicity for the disappearance of Lauren Smith-Fields.
Environmental Racism in Louisiana: Legislative Ambivalence Persists More Than a Decade After Katrina

Environmental Racism in Louisiana: Legislative Ambivalence Persists More Than a Decade After Katrina

CARLIE HOUSER
EnvironmentRaceUnited States
“Hey! We need more water! We need help!”  Thousands of people, pressed against metal barricades, shouted similar cries at the Louisiana National Guard in the Superdome lockdown after Hurricane Katrina...
Tackling Segregation in NYC Schools: Are Gifted and Talented Programs a Problem, or a Solution?

Tackling Segregation in NYC Schools: Are Gifted and Talented Programs a Problem, or a Solution?

DANIEL STEINFELD
EducationRaceUnited States
New York City’s public school system is the most racially segregated in the nation. Several mayoral administrations have sought to tackle this issue: Mayor Michael Bloomberg implemented programs based...
Soccer Offers a Shot at a Bigger Goal
CultureGenderMiddle EastWorld

Soccer Offers a Shot at a Bigger Goal

Expanding opportunities for women’s soccer in the Middle East can serve as a powerful tool to improve women’s rights in the region.
BIANCA ROSEN

Religion

Immaculate Citizenship School Kinshasa

Immaculate Citizenship School Kinshasa

JUSTIN MESZLER
AfricaEducationMagazineReligionWorld
Church-run schools threaten civic unity in the DRC
The Last Religion

The Last Religion

HARRY FLORES
ReligionUnited States
The State-Sponsored Disappearance of Muslim Minorities in China

The State-Sponsored Disappearance of Muslim Minorities in China

MICHAELA KENNEDY-CUOMO
Asia/PacificCultureReligion
One Nation Under God: Prayer in the U.S. Federal Government

One Nation Under God: Prayer in the U.S. Federal Government

ELANA CONFINO-PINZON
CultureReligion
Slandering Satan: Baphomet’s Legal Battle Against Netflix

Slandering Satan: Baphomet’s Legal Battle Against Netflix

ALEX VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
CultureReligion

Science

Death by a Thousand Pumps

Death by a Thousand Pumps

EVAN HAMAOKA
EnvironmentScienceTechnologyUnited States
Before the first Americans carved out rectangular borders and called it “the Southwest,” before the Diné established their tribal homeland between the four sacred mountains, the area was water and imm...
The Creatively-Destructive Path to the Nobel: An Interview with Peter Howitt

The Creatively-Destructive Path to the Nobel: An Interview with Peter Howitt

SOFIA SEGARRA
EducationInterviewsScienceTechnologyU.S.
Brown University Professor Emeritus Peter Howitt, co-architect of the theory of sustained economic growth through creative destruction and co-recipient of the 2025 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, di...
[Video] “I Just Wish We Could Tell a Story of What Works”: An Epidemiologist Reviews Outbreak MoviesVideo

[Video] “I Just Wish We Could Tell a Story of What Works”: An Epidemiologist Reviews Outbreak Movies

CLARA BAISINGER-ROSEN
HealthHealthMediaMultimediaScienceUnited StatesVideo
Jennifer Nuzzo, director of the Pandemic Center and Professor of Epidemiology at Brown University, reviews depictions of epidemics in Twilight (2008), The Last of Us (2023), Outbreak (1995), and Conta...
From Dubai to Space: The Strategy Behind the UAE’s Tech Modernization Efforts

From Dubai to Space: The Strategy Behind the UAE’s Tech Modernization Efforts

SIYUAN SHUI
Middle EastScienceWorld
On July 19, 2020, the United Arab Emirates Space Association (UAESA) launched a rocket named Hope into space in celebration of the country’s 50th anniversary. Hope went into orbit around Mars to trans...

Technology

What if Everything Goes Right?

What if Everything Goes Right?

CHARLES BURKE
TechnologyUnited States
In May of 1997, the computer program ‘Deep Blue’ defeated Garry Kasparov in a six-game chess match in New York City, becoming the first machine to beat a reigning chess champion at a tournament match....
Governing for the Future, Paying in the Present

Governing for the Future, Paying in the Present

KAYLA MORRISON
TechnologyUnited States
With our world facing increasingly imminent catastrophic problems—ranging from climate change and unprecedented pandemics to the rapid development of AI—there seems to be a growing consensus that huma...
Section 230 is Not Fit for AI

Section 230 is Not Fit for AI

SONYA RASHKOVAN
Law/JusticeTechnologyUnited States
“No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider.” These are the 26 words that s...
Biohacking: Brain or Body?

Biohacking: Brain or Body?

KAVYA NAYAK
CultureHealthScienceTechnology
iohacking” is an evolving trend in which people change their food and lifestyle habits to take advantage of biological mechanisms and to improve wellbeing. Dubbed “do-it-yourself” biology, biohacking...

Health & Culture

Playing With the Past

Playing With the Past

LEV KOTLER-BERKOWITZ
EducationHealthHealthUnited States
Earlier this year, hundreds of families flocked to a newly opened playground and park in Waltham, Massachusetts. Children soared on the swings, flew down the slides, and competed in mini-golf – unawar...
Justice versus Neutrality: The Politicization of Humanitarian Aid in the Middle East

Justice versus Neutrality: The Politicization of Humanitarian Aid in the Middle East

ELA SNYDER
HealthMiddle EastWorld
Whether issued directly by governments or NGOs, Western humanitarian aid to the Middle East has been unable to uphold the standards of neutrality which have long been framed as central to its effectiv...
Alexa, Am I Dying?

Alexa, Am I Dying?

MIRA ORTEGON
CultureHealthTechnology
Amazon’s Alexa has reshaped how millions of American consumers live and behave at home. We might think of Alexa as that robot we yell at to set a timer, yet Amazon recently announced that it had bigge...
Sex Isn’t Illegal: Criminalizing Human Trafficking and Protecting Sex Workers

Sex Isn’t Illegal: Criminalizing Human Trafficking and Protecting Sex Workers

BRIONNE FRAZIER
GenderHealthHealthLaw/JusticeUnited States
ours before the AFC championship game this February, New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft solicited sex workers at the Orchids of Asia Day spa in Florida. He was charged with soliciting a prostitut...

Cultural Perspectives

Tackling Cisnormativity: Redefining the Gender Division in Sports

Tackling Cisnormativity: Redefining the Gender Division in Sports

MICHAEL O'NEILL
CultureLGBTQ+ PoliticsUnited States
Author’s Note: I recognize that I, as a cisgender person, have immense privilege and limited perspective and personal experience regarding the issues non-cisgender people face. I chose to write about...
Hillary and the Boys: Support from the Gay Community

Hillary and the Boys: Support from the Gay Community

BRENDAN GAFFNEY
CultureLGBTQ+ Politics
gay community represents one of the most loyal and ardent voting blocks for the Democratic Party, and despite this election cycle’s unpredictable and unprecedented nature, polling suggests that 2016 w...
Twist & Shout For Change! The Beatles, Live Music, and Political Protest

Twist & Shout For Change! The Beatles, Live Music, and Political Protest

ALAN GARCIA-RAMOS
ArtsCultureLGBTQ+ Politics
Days a Week a recently released documentary, directed by Ron Howard, sheds light on the early touring years of The Beatles as they played across America for the first time. The four mop-topped bandmat...
Out, Proud, and Brave?

Out, Proud, and Brave?

BRITT EDELEN
CultureLGBTQ+ Politics
arlier this year, in a statement released by the Windy City Times, Lilly Wachowski came out as transgender — something her sister Lana had done years prior. The news was met with initial elation by th...