It is impossible to be bored on Año Viejo (New Year’s Eve) in Ecuador’s capital city. The country blends rich traditions ...

The 1946 Tokyo War Crimes Trials, carried out by the Allied powers during postwar occupation, marked one of the first ...

In the second episode of the What Now series created by Auden Goldblatt, we catch up with BPR interview directors Ciara Leonard & Raghav Ramgopal on some very (mostly) serious news.

illustration by Jacquelyn Rich ’28, an Illustration major at RISD and Illustrator for BPR Players of popular open-world racing game The Crew knew the servers would eventually shut down. Ubisoft had ...

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 — ...

Under the cover of night, small boats depart from the Libyan coastline, headed toward sanctuary in Italy. Packed onto rickety vessels and often bought and traded by armed gangs, thousands of migrants ...

In February 2025, Taiwan’s coast guard noticed something unusual in the Taiwan Strait. A Togolese-flagged cargo ship, the Hong Tai 58, had slowed near a submarine cable route connecting Taiwan to the ...

illustration by Elizabeth Chew ’28, an Illustration major at RISD and Illustrator for BPR There is a legal basis for elevating chemical agents to WMD status. Congress’ definition of a WMD includes ...

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 ...

In 2025, facing a crumbling school system marked by significant financial strain and a declining student population, Vermont’s Republican governor, Phil Scott, passed legislation for what had ...

Many Americans take clean air for granted, but it is the product of detailed federal regulations that weigh the economic costs of reducing pollution against the benefits of cleaner air to human health ...

In the 1930s, the Soviet Union engineered the Holodomor in Ukraine, starving a population residing in some of the most fertile land in Europe. Unrealistic grain quotas were imposed on Ukraine to power ...