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(01/16/18 5:50pm)
President Trump’s mental fitness for office has emerged as one of the most contentious political debates of the new year. One notable participant in this debate is Dr. Bandy Lee, a Yale psychiatrist who edited “The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump,” a book written by 27 mental health professionals who claim that President Trump represents a clear and present danger to the nation. Dr. Lee’s work has sparked additional public interest after Politico reported that she travelled to Washington in December to brief more than a dozen lawmakers, including an anonymous Republican Senator, on the president’s mental condition.
(11/08/17 5:00am)
In September, the ride-hailing company Uber was denied a license to continue operating in the city of London, one of the largest and most important metropolitan markets in the world. Uber has amassed a considerable operation in London since it first arrived in 2012: more than three million riders and 40,000 drivers utilize the app to seek and provide transportation within the city.
(09/27/17 4:00am)
Since President Trump assumed office in January, his administration’s relationship with the press has been, in the kindest possible terms, acrimonious. President Trump has not been shy to express his disdain for the media, and it is safe to say that the feeling is mutual.
(09/13/17 4:00am)
Albert Einstein, a man who understood many things, once said that “the hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.” Given Einstein’s status as a pioneer of revolutionary scientific advancements such as his theory of relativity, it is quite remarkable that a seemingly simple tax confused him to such an extent.
(08/30/17 4:00am)
One of the most important, albeit underreported, political stories of the year is that of Robert Menendez, the senior Democratic Senator from New Jersey who has served in Congress since 1993. Next week, Menendez will arrive in federal court in Newark, New Jersey to face charges of corruption, bribery and fraud brought forward by the Obama Justice Department in 2015.
(04/20/17 4:28am)
The arrival of spring signals the release of regular decision results from colleges all round the country. Around this time, the accomplishments of high school students who achieve extraordinary success in the college admission process garner the attention of the national media. Students who have been admitted to all eight Ivy League schools, for instance, have been covered by organizations such as Fortune or CNN.
(03/23/17 5:45am)
On March 2, Charles Murray, a controversial sociologist and author, was scheduled to speak at Middlebury College. Murray was invited to campus by the school’s chapter of the American Enterprise Institute Club, an organization that promotes political conservatism. The school’s collective reaction to Murray’s mere presence on campus was, in a word, antagonistic. When he took the stage to begin his debate, Murray faced an audience littered with protesters who were intent on denying him the opportunity to speak.
(03/02/17 5:36am)
Since the inauguration of President Donald Trump, it has become effusively clear that Duke alumnus Stephen Miller (T’07) now occupies a position of significant authority in the new administration. As a senior advisor to President Donald Trump, Miller’s influence in the White House cannot be underestimated. He was a key architect of Trump’s controversial executive order on immigration, and his opinions will undoubtedly continue to shape Trump’s policy objectives going forward.
(02/16/17 5:42am)
On Jan. 27, only several days into his term as President, Donald Trump issued the now infamous executive order temporarily banning travel from seven Middle Eastern countries to the United States. At Duke and many other college campuses, the reaction has been nothing short of unanimous—that Trump’s executive order is morally reprehensible and indefensible.
(02/02/17 5:15am)
Moments after Donald Trump was sworn in as President on Jan. 20, President Barack Obama boarded Air Force One for the final time, leaving Andrews Air Force base for Palm Springs, California. After eight years in the White House, President Obama’s terms have run their course. While time alone will be the true arbiter of the success or failure of President Obama’s time in office, this piece will attempt to synthesize the various narratives surrounding the Obama presidency and predict how he will be remembered by history.
(01/19/17 12:36pm)
Tomorrow, Donald J. Trump will be inaugurated as the 45th President of the United States. For many students at Duke and around the country, the event represents a calamitous failure of American democracy and the commencement of an unflattering era that will be defined by repression, hubris and demagoguery.
(12/08/16 4:37pm)
In the aftermath of the election, many people at Duke and elsewhere have flocked to demonize the Electoral College. In an environment of immense partisanship, it seems that the only thing Democrats and Republicans can agree on is the atrocity of the Electoral College: it is undemocratic and seems to predict the popular vote winner as accurately as a coin flip. And so the matter is decided. Or is it?
(10/26/16 5:15am)
From a multitude of perspectives, the 2016 election is in patent disarray. Many Americans on both sides of the aisle feel that the choice they face on Nov. 8 constitutes the unenviable task of deciding the lesser of two evils.
