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A former police officer (and public health expert) on the opioid crisis and public safety
For this week’s show, we’re sharing an episode of “Humans in Public Health,” a podcast from The Brown School of Public Health. It makes a great follo…
1 year, 10 months ago
What should the Supreme Court’s role in our politics be?
At the Watson Institute, the beginning of summer means commencement festivities, moving trucks, and bittersweet goodbyes. In American politics, the b…
1 year, 10 months ago
How American firearms fuel violence in Mexico
Mexico, like the United States, has a gun violence problem. It has one of the highest murder rates in the world, and most of those murders come from …
1 year, 10 months ago
Harm reduction, overdose prevention, and the future of treating America’s overdose epidemic
In February of this year, Providence became the first city in America to approve opening a state-sanctioned overdose prevention center. Sometimes kno…
1 year, 11 months ago
A new history of the Sandinista Revolution
In the 1970s in Nicaragua, left-wing rebels, calling themselves the Sandinista National Liberation Front, fought to overthrow their country’s dictato…
1 year, 11 months ago
What happened to the ‘American dream’?
Here’s a depressing fact: it takes longer to travel from Boston to Los Angeles today than it did 50 years ago. Getting to the airport, getting throug…
1 year, 11 months ago
From Black Lives Matter to January 6, how ‘Black grief’ and ‘white grievance’ shape our politics
The last decade has seen the growth of two political movements that appear diametrically opposed: the Black Lives Matter movement and the rise of Don…
2 years ago
Mark and Carrie Special: 2024 Primaries, the wars in Ukraine and Gaza, what’s next for the UK’s Labour Party
We’ve got a lot of exciting new Trending Globally episodes coming up in the next few weeks and months, but this week we’re sharing an episode of anot…
2 years ago
Ukraine is ‘on the ropes’ two years after Russia’s invasion. What’s next for the Russia-Ukraine War?
February 24, 2024, marks two years since the beginning of the War in Ukraine.
In the war’s first year, Russia’s assault on Ukraine shook the West, wh…
2 years, 1 month ago
The origins of America's separate and unequal schools
In the United States, inequality along the lines of race in education is such a persistent issue that it often fails to make headlines. COVID-19 brou…
2 years, 1 month ago