North Carolina will hold its municipal elections on November 3 in which residents will elect governing officials for the cities, villages and towns of the state.
The past few years have brought a new dialogue to American politics that seems to suggest an emerging, more liberal America.
The most recent round of hysteria concerning Kim Davis — the Kentucky law clerk who denied gay couples their marriage certificates — centered on her alleged private meeting with Pope Francis and, more specifically, whether or not he encouraged her to “stay strong.” While it’s clear some level of interaction occurred, the dramatization peddled by Liberty Counsel, the organization representing Davis, fits into a long line of pretty blatant misrepresentation by the advocacy group and its founder, Mat Staver. Staver founded Liberty Counsel in 1989 as a nonprofit, evangelical law and lobbying firm.
Last month, I attended my very first Pride Parade. It was filled with rainbows, hugs and happy people.
"I will not name the shooter. I will not give him the credit he probably sought prior to this horrific and cowardly act." Last Friday, hours after a man inflicted tragedy on an Oregon community college, County Sheriff John Hanlin used this statement to start a conversation on how the media should respond to mass shootings.
There are many damning statistics about the American education system, but one that stands out in particular is that 33 percent of American eighth graders think that Canada is ruled by a dictator.
When Pope Francis visited America last week, all anyone could talk about in the media was his progressivism — his views on climate change, poverty and immigration.
And now, a digest of The Chronicle’s biggest stories for the month of October 2020. CONSTRUCTION VILLAGE CELEBRATES FIRST CHILD BORN TO TOWN: The population of Duke’s Construction Village grew by one this month with the long-anticipated birth of baby Aedifica Dare.
Our hearts bend, but are they broken? We are saddened, but are we now also hopeless? On Friday, another American community, this time an Oregon community college, was terrorized by senseless violence as a man shot and killed nine people.
Major news sources have been buzzing for years with updates on the military conflict in Syria and how it has been affecting the region since it began in 2011.
The ways in which we identify ourselvesare constantly evolving. Growing up under the supervision of our parents, our basic values were determined by where we lived,our ethnic or religious backgrounds and the communities in which we were brought up in.
During an early morning Joe Van Gogh coffee run, I happened to hear a group of students making costume plans for Halloween.
In fact, I’d go so far as to say that one of the worst things Duke has done for itself this millennium is have the Women’s Initiative run that study that ever established “effortless perfection” as a term.
The other day, I was walking along the East Campus quad during the afternoon, heading to class, when I glanced at the bus stop.
I used to see this girl around campus all the time. When I was late for class, running down Towerview Road, she would be on the other side of the road, walking sedately.
The puck is in the net. As the defending goalie in this marathon team scrimmage, I have the dubious duty of sweeping the puck back out onto the ice.
Earlier this month, Durham City Manager Tom Bonfield announced the forced resignation of current Durham Police Chief Jose Lopez.
We are constantly inundated with information about our nation’s poor, our welfare recipients and socio-economic decline.
“If my father had ‘come out’ in his youth, if he had not met and married my mother... where would that leave me?” When I read this sentence of Alison Bechdel’s “Fun Home,” my heart expanded and my eyes gaped open.
Duke Conversations is taking campus by storm. The program is a series of student-organized dinner discussions between groups of about 20 students and a faculty member host.
