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Why I’m afraid with Alabama

(11/30/17 9:23pm)

Coming out of Thanksgiving, new poll results show Judge Roy Moore (R) ahead of Doug Jones (D) in the Alabama gubernatorial race. Even after allegations from 9 women of sexual misconduct, Roy Moore is currently ahead 49 percent to 44 percent, as reported by Change Research. For all of Thanksgiving Break, I couldn’t get the same question out of my head, how anyone could support a candidate accused by so many women of sexual assault.

https://www.dukechronicle.com/article/2017/11/171130-mohammadi

Charitable foundations: Beware the skeletons in your closets

(11/16/17 5:33am)

When philanthropies or other charitable foundations are criticized in the news, it’s often due to a fault in their transparency or use of money. Watchdog organizations exist that follow foundations worldwide, as they should. These civil society institutions have asked for the public’s trust and garner an opportunity cost to society by being tax exempt. Sure enough, when foundations managed by those who have held public office are even suspected of illicit activities, as the Clinton Foundation was this week, public backlash erupts.

https://www.dukechronicle.com/article/2017/11/waee9qmpadwnkhy

Free speech: Students, institutions and solutions

(10/19/17 4:00am)

It’s often impossible to escape news of free speech being suffocated within colleges in the United States. We see the media portraying colleges as having lost their place in society as the last bastion of free speech and thought. And it’s true; administrations have been creating safe spaces on campuses, ideas from books that may elicit “triggers” from students–“The Great Gatsby” by Fitzgerald and “Mrs. Dalloway” by Virginia Woolf to name two–are now often deemed optional, and prominent speakers on both the political left and right have been disinvited from giving talks on campuses. Despite all the press attention, we see very few explanations on how we got to this state of tiptoeing with regards to free speech.

https://www.dukechronicle.com/article/2017/10/free-speech-students-institutions-and-solutions