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(04/19/17 4:51am)
When I started writing for The Chronicle eleven months ago, roughly a year had passed since a group that named itself “Concerned and Conscious Duke Students” had created the following petition on change.org: “We are demanding the immediate removal of Jonathan Zhao as editor of the Duke Chronicle's editorial page.” The petition argued that Zhao’s column “the plight of black America,” “[proliferated] racist stereotypes and misinformation about an entire group of people.” In addition, the petition argued, Jonathan Zhao should be removed from his position because he “also [had] a history of publishing inflammatory and ill-conceived pieces in the newspaper,” which “[indicated] his inability to moderate the Chronicle’s opinion section fairly and well in this upcoming school year.”
(04/05/17 3:51am)
Congressional Republicans failed to pass the American Health Care Act (AHCA) last month, which amounted to the first major defeat of the Trump Administration. While the AHCA would have replaced the Affordable Care Act (also known as Obamacare), it still maintained key provisions of Obama’s signature health care policy reform, thus failing to gain the necessary support of the conservative House Freedom Caucus.
(03/22/17 1:55pm)
The issue of sexual assault on college campuses has become an important conversation in the media, academia and among students themselves—including Duke students.
(02/17/17 5:36am)
Those familiar with my political engagement know that I regularly criticize some segments of the American Left for drifting away from the democratic norms that have founded this country. For example, I am worried about the general trend towards restricting freedom of speech on the basis of “hate speech,” in particular on college campuses. Similarly, I am concerned about the nation-wide campaign to delegitimize Donald Trump’s election, one that has nonetheless been absolutely consistent with the rules of America’s constitutional democracy.
(01/18/17 6:26pm)
On Monday, the American people celebrated the memory of Martin Luther King Jr., the Baptist minister who led the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s. King embraced the philosophy and method of activism called “nonviolent civil disobedience,” meaning that he and his followers were committed both to breaking the unjust segregationist laws of the South and to willingly subjecting themselves to the consequences of their action, such as police brutality and legal punishment. The sacrifice of his followers moved the conscience of a nation and led to the abolition of Jim Crow segregation in the United States.
(12/01/16 4:48pm)
President-elect Donald J. Trump has been a vocal critic of U.S. foreign policy under the Obama Administration throughout the presidential campaign, denouncing all of Obama’s “signature” foreign policy achievements such as the Iran nuclear deal, the rapprochement with Cuba and the Trans-Pacific Partnership. In addition he has strongly challenged the U.S. foreign policy tradition, notably threatening to abandon the U.S. commitment to the defense of its allies if they do not pay their fair share, calling NATO “obsolete” and deeming President Putin of Russia a better leader than Obama.
(11/17/16 9:35am)
Duke students have been quick to deem the election of Donald Trump as president “a tragedy,” if not a very dangerous event that threatens their core values and ideals of racial minority rights, LGBT rights, multiculturalism and feminism, among others. Many students told me that they were less horrified about the election of Trump than about the racism and xenophobia that they realized was inherent to American society.
(11/03/16 5:30am)
“The President of the Republic is the head of the state and the symbol of the nation's unity. He shall safeguard the constitution and Lebanon's independence, unity and territorial Integrity.” - Article 49 of The Lebanese Constitution
(10/21/16 7:09pm)
Donald Trump’s leaked tape in which he boasts about sexually assaulting women has cast a shadow on what could have potentially been another scandal in this presidential election: the leaked transcript of Hillary Clinton’s speeches to Wall Street firms. In her speeches, Hillary notably confesses that she dreams of “open borders and open trade” and admits that it is an “oversimplification” to blame the U.S. blanking system for the 2008 financial crisis. This contrasts strikingly with Hillary Clinton’s very left-winged primary campaign in which she came out against the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and markedly said, “I believe strongly that we need to make sure that Wall Street never wrecks Main Street again.” In a way, this leak confirms some people’s intuition that Clinton cannot be trusted, something she has herself hinted on in the speeches by stressing the need for politicians to have both a private and a public position on issues.
(10/06/16 5:02am)
As an international student who has always been passionate about U.S. politics, I was really excited to study at Duke in part because that meant living in a research university. I thought this would be where conversations happen and ideas shape the world, and where students determine the outcomes of elections. I pictured myself in the midst of the constant contest for power and the predominance of ideas between conservatives and liberals, in debate societies, talks or student newspapers, in an atmosphere of tolerance and intellectual growth.
(09/22/16 4:22am)
“How can we put an end to the war in Syria?”
(09/08/16 2:13pm)
This summer, many coastal municipalities in France adopted bylaws banning a particular piece of swimwear that some Muslim women wear at the beach: the burkini. An amalgam of the Islamic outfit “burka” (a full veil that covers all but a woman’s eyes) and the bikini, the “burkini” was supposedly created in order to allow women to cover up as advocated by religion while at the same time enjoying the beach.
(06/30/16 2:14pm)
In 2005, the French were readying to decide on a referendum whether they approved or not the ratification of the treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe, which aimed to deepen integration between member states of the European Union. Ahead of the referendum vote, Jean Claude Juncker, who was at the time the prime minister of Luxembourg and holder of the rotating EU presidency, made a declaration in the Belgian newspaper Le Soir that revealed the true nature of the EU.
(06/16/16 3:11pm)
The Orlando attack has taken America back to a post-9/11 atmosphere, designated by fear and bewilderment. The same questions arise. What happened? What motivated the killer? What is the link, if there is any, between Islam and the ideology of the killer? How should we act, domestically and internationally, to prevent another terrorist attack from happening? Should we employ means that are opposed to our fundamental values in order to achieve such an end?
(05/27/16 7:37pm)
This past month, tensions between the West and Russia have once again reemerged, with the integration of Montenegro into NATO, NATO military exercises in Georgia as well as NATO’s military buildup in Eastern Europe and the Baltic countries; these moves have been sharply criticized by Russia.
