It was January 2008 when Luz Marina Bernal’s life changed forever. Her son, Fair Leonardo Bernal, a 24-year-old with cognitive disabilities, left their home in Soacha, Colombia, in search of work. He ...

September 16, 2025, marked 215 years since Mexico’s independence from Spain. This year’s Independence Day celebration of “El ...

Massachusetts residents often express smugness about the strength of their education system, tying it to the state’s liberal political leaning. On the surface, this arrogance appears to be ...

In the dimmed studio of my first rhythm cycle class, I might have mistaken it for a nightclub. Lights flicker from purple to blue to green, absorbed by the black metal of the bikes’ core. Amid the ...

At the crux of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) is a story of greatness and growth out of suffering and shame. From 1839 until 1949, China was subjected to defeat, intervention, and exploitation ...

This piece was produced in part with the financial support of the Stone Inequality Initiative. Brown Political Review maintains editorial independence over all articles published. "The positive impact ...

The year is 1979. A young senator from Delaware walks into the Kremlin to discuss nuclear arms control amid the Cold War. He would go on to be an outspoken advocate for nuclear nonproliferation and ...

“Caste is not a physical object like a wall of bricks or a line of barbed wire which prevents the Hindus from co-mingling and which has, therefore, to be pulled down. Caste is a notion; it is a state ...

China’s domestic economy has faced persistent struggles since the collapse of a property bubble in 2021, marked by the downfall of Evergrande—once the world’s most valuable property developer. The ...

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 ...

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 ...

Jury nullification—the power of a jury to deliver a not-guilty verdict despite the evidence suggesting otherwise—is a quirky and rarely used mechanism of the legal system. Despite its legality, judges ...