Could Dunkin’s New Alcoholic Drinks Encourage Underage Drinking?
BU substance use prevention researcher David Jernigan says the chain’s boozy coffees and teas, Dunkin’ Spiked, might provide youth “too easy an entry point” into alcohol
The World Is Going Bust: What Is the Sovereign Debt Crisis and Can We Solve It?
BU’s Global Development Policy Center has released a plan to save nations from what a UN secretary-general has called one of “the biggest threats to global peace”
After a Year in the White House, BU Infectious Diseases Expert Shares Lessons about Pandemic Response
Nahid Bhadelia has returned to BU after helping lead the Biden administration’s COVID-19 pandemic response and advising on preparing the world for future outbreaks
Colleges Are Already Unequal—Will Ending Affirmative Action Make It Worse?
BU sociologist Jonathan Mijs writes that diversity on college campuses is crucial for shaping beliefs and learning about peers in a divided nation
Is Suing Visa the Best Way to Shut Down Pornhub?
BU Law expert says that targeting credit card companies in the war against online sex trafficking, if pushed too far, can cause unintended harms
How Will Anti-Trans Laws Impact Transgender and Gender-Diverse Youth Mental Health?
Algorithms Were Supposed to Reduce Bias in Criminal Justice—Do They?
Best of The Brink 2022: 10 Amazing Discoveries and Mind-Blowing Facts
Urgency, Accountability, and Private Jets at UN Climate Summit COP27
BU climate finance researcher Rishikesh Ram Bhandary describes the mood in Egypt
Seven BU Latinx Researchers Making a Difference
From social work to astronomy to the law, these leaders are pushing scientific and scholarly boundaries—and lifting up the next generation of Latinx academics