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 ...

Last June, the United States Army held a military demonstration whose scale and extravagance were unparalleled for a country at peacetime. Columns of tanks, armored vehicles, artillery, attack ...

illustrations by Anneke Beth ’26, an Illustration major at RISD and Illustrator for BPR " Despite its financial successes, the Wagner Group will soon be no more." Despite its financial successes, 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 ...

The Miss Universe pageant has been a pillar of pop culture in the United States for decades—whether it be the glamorous outfits, a sense of nationalism, or Steve Harvey iconically crowning the wrong ...

Accra, Ghana. Cheers erupt from the gathered crowd as a man’s name is announced. Clad in a red beret and a camouflage uniform, the national flag stitched onto his sleeve features a yellow star, not ...

Social media has transformed feminism into a set of contrasting lifestyle trends: The ambitious, career-driven “girlboss” and the traditionally submissive “tradwife.” The girlboss celebrates financial ...

A blue passport can get you far. The leatherbound booklet denotes association with the ‘New World’ and grants access to an unprecedentedly high degree of global mobility and embassy protection — ...

A former member of Brown’s class of 2027, Alex Shieh became the center of intense debate on campus after launching Bloat@Brown, a DOGE-inspired website that rated Brown staff to identify ...

In an era characterized by intense political polarization, it would seem bizarre to equate the far right and the far left. After all, political ideologies are often imagined as a straight line ...

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 ...

Beside my grandparents’ apartment door stands a potted plant with a note to fellow building occupants, handwritten in Azerbaijani by my grandfather: “Бура кул габы деjил,” or “This is not an ashtray.” ...