Everyday at Duke, I find myself amazed to see such talented and interesting individuals, nuanced in many ways.
"It's about wages but it isn't just about wages. It's about rectifying deeply-instilled systems of power and inequality."
All eyes were on my hometown, Cleveland, Ohio, this week as the Republican Party convened in an attempt to unify behind Donald Trump as its nominee for president of the United States.
It’s all just such a perfect storm. At the heart of the tragedy in Orlando is a confluence of homophobia, islamophobia, calls for stronger gun control, claims of mental illness and shared blame for foreign policy weaknesses against ISIS.
Renewable energy has been growing at record rates nationwide thanks to plummeting costs: solar and wind accounted for over two-thirds of new energy capacity in 2015, more than double the amount of new natural gas capacity.
The “g word” is an awfully scary one right about now.
Why Going to College Matters In America, earning a college degree is critical to good economic prospects and a higher quality of life.
“Can you believe Trump is going to build this wall that...” “Do you think Trump’s hair is fake? “Donald Drumpf!” “Did you see Chris Christie’s face?” Perhaps viral quotes and videos are a good way to spread awareness about how Donald Trump is taking America by storm, but if he dropped of the race tomorrow and was never heard from again, I bet that very few of us would care about the failures of both the political system and American public that brought about his rise. Few people knew that Trump was a Democrat before he was a Republican.
In this election cycle, there has been a resurgence of populism, a political ideology that emphasizes the needs of the general public above those of the elite, on both the right and the left.
