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 ...

What do oil companies, ultraconservative think tanks, and billionaires agree on regarding global warming? Perhaps that it is propaganda, pseudoscience, or a hoax? Or perhaps something more paradoxical ...

Players of popular open-world racing game The Crew knew the servers would eventually shut down. Ubisoft had announced the ...

Many Americans take clean air for granted, but it is the product of detailed federal regulations that weigh the economic ...

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 ...

After 43 days, the longest US government shutdown in history ended on November 12, 2025. As of late February 2026, a partial ...

In 1947, members of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists created the notorious “Doomsday Clock,” a symbolic representation of humanity’s impending doom. The clock inches forward when climate change ...

illustration by Rokia Whitehouse ’27, an Illustration major at RISD and Illustrator for BPR ...

illustration by Emily McShane ’29, a Film/Animation/Video major at RISD and Illustrator for BPR ...