Brown Political Review

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: that they have found its solution.  For decades, climate change has forged a destructive path through our world as mitigation efforts have fallen short. A suite of technol...

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 and refugees face grueling challenges on their journey north. Some are unaccompanied children; others face religious persecution or financial extortion in their home countr...

Players of popular open-world racing game The Crew knew the servers would eventually shut down. Ubisoft had announced the game’s end date well in advance — but when that day arrived, it vanished from players’ libraries, with no ‘offline mode’ and no way to access what they had previously purchased. The shock was not just in losing a video game, but in […]

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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 — unless the passport reads “Republique D’Haiti.” The 2013 retroactive revocation of birthright citizenship in the Dominican Republic and mass deportations of Haitian immigrants have cr...

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 Penghu Islands. Officers repeatedly attempted to contact the vessel over radio, but it did not respond. Shortly after the ship dropped anchor, engineers at Chunghwa Telecom detec...