Brown Political Review (BPR)
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Fall 2025 -- Issue 01
A mythologized—and potentially completely fictional—ritual that took place over 200 years ago has been woefully misconstrued by the American Christian right, imprinting itself on the top rungs of the Republican party in ways that spell harm for modern Haitians and Haitian-Americans, whether that be through racial and ethnic discrimination or anti-immigrant policy.
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Spring 2025 -- Issue 01 George Mason’s critique of the United States Constitution serves as an eerily accurate telescope into the future of the American government as a “corrupt aristocracy,” challenging the the narrative perpetuated by the Founding Fathers and many modern American politicians that the United States is a democratic republic. The specific issues that Mason had with the Constitution in 1787 can be directly connected to modern political phenomena today.
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Spring 2025 -- Issue 02
The battle for Ukrainian independence, statehood and safety is far from over, and will require unrelenting support from across the entire European political spectrum. While the pro-Ukrainian liberal governments of Europe are acutely aware of the pro-Russian turn of the far right, the foreign policy trajectory of Smer suggests that we should be equally concerned about emerging pro-Russian sentiments on the left.
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Scientific institutions have proven unable to effectively uncover or punish fraudsters, and the state has a strong interest in ensuring that firms and individuals are not misled by deliberate scientific fraud. To reign in the replication crisis and improve public trust in science, the federal government should criminalize and severely punish scientific fraud, in the same way that it punishes financial or other types of fraud.
