Benjamin Stern

Jan 7, 2025 | brownpoliticalreview.org | Ariella Reynolds |Charlie Adams |Benjamin Stern

Garnering headlines last year in the controversy over former Harvard President Claudine Gay’s resignation, academic fraud took center stage. For Ivan Oransky, these questions are nothing new. In 2010, Ivan Oransky co-founded Retraction Watch, a blog and online database dedicated to tracking retractions by scientific journals, including the kinds of retractions that emerge from plagiarism and other types of fraud.

Dec 13, 2024 | brownpoliticalreview.org | Charlie Adams |Benjamin Stern |Ariella Reynolds

For over 20 years, David Roberts has reported on climate change and energy systems launching him to his current status as one of the most influential climate journalists, podcasters, and bloggers in the United States. Beginning his career as a journalist for Vox and Grist, David now owns and reports for Volts, a newsletter and biweekly podcast about clean energy and politics. Charlie Adams: Over your 15 years reporting on energy and climate, what was your lowest and most pessimistic point?

Dec 8, 2024 | brownpoliticalreview.org | Benjamin Stern |Charlie Adams |Ariella Reynolds

Margaret “Midge” Purce is a professional soccer player for NJ/NY Gotham FC with 30 caps for the US Women’s National Team (USWNT), as well as an outspoken advocate for gender equality, equal pay, and equal opportunity for women and girls in sport and beyond. In 2022, she was a driving force in achieving the Equal Pay for Equal Work Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) with the United States Soccer Federation (USSF) ensuring a slew of improvements in pay and benefits for the USWNT.

Dec 2, 2024 | brownpoliticalreview.org | Ariella Reynolds |Benjamin Stern |Avital Strauss |Matthew Kotcher

A world-renowned moral and political philosopher, T. M. Scanlon spent over 35 years at Harvard (and before that, 18 years at Princeton) as a scholar, teacher, and writer dedicated to addressing some of the most elemental questions of morality, justice, and rights.

Sep 29, 2024 | brownpoliticalreview.org | Charlie Adams |Matthew Kotcher |Benjamin Stern |Eiffel Sunga

Gloria Gilbert Stoga is the founder of Puppies Behind Bars (PBB), a Manhattan-based organization that partners puppies with incarcerated individuals. These individuals will train and raise the puppies to serve as bomb-sniffers, veteran servicers, and police dogs.