Historian Bill Chafe, author of the book, “Hillary and Bill: The Clintons and the Politics of the Personal,” examines whether we will see Hillary the “bridge-builder and reformer” who as a senator formed strong relationships with GOP lawmakers, or the intensely private person who refused to take friendly advice from allies.
William Chafe in Duke Today
Bruce Jentleson, Peter Feaver in Foreign Exchange
A Duke education policy expert says the state’s charter schools have always been racially imbalanced and it’s only gotten worse. “We’ve got white charter schools – disproportionately white charter schools – and disproportionately minority charter schools. It’s what we’ve worked hard to avoid. It’s a pattern worth worrying about.”
Helen Ladd in WUNC radio
"When a race is really, really close, something like this could matter," says Pope "Mac" McCorkle III, a longtime political consultant in North Carolina who now teaches public policy at Duke. And "really, really close" describes the political scene in the state, where the tea party's control of the legislature has fed a vocal progressive movement and its famed "Moral Mondays" protests.
Pope ‘Mac’ McCorkle in Slate
Information on delegates, demographics and data from previous elections.
Law professor Ernest Young, who worked with Ted Cruz in Texas, says he was often categorical in his judgments, but not because he failed to understand the other side’s arguments.
Ernest Young in the Los Angeles Times
The author of the new book “After Nature: A Politics for the Anthropocene” looks at a world irrevocably changed by humans and finds that it demands a fundamentally different politics – one that places a moral value on climates and landscapes and takes responsibility for future generations.
Jedediah Purdy in Yale Environment 360
“It’s very expensive to be poor in contemporary America,” says Luke Bretherton, professor of theological ethics at Duke Divinity School. One reason? Usury, an ancient word for the current practice of charging exorbitant interest rates.
The Muslim Leadership Initiative forces “Jews and Muslims to diversify their sources of information about each other rather than relying on the voices pumping fear and suspicion into both communities,” says Imam Abdullah Antepli, who helped create the program three years ago.
Abdullah Antepli in Jewish Telegraphic Agency
“The victims of the Paris attacks, the first thing we heard was everything about their individuality, we heard about their tastes, the way they look. The first thing we heard about foreign victims of other attacks in Baghdad or Beirut or elsewhere in the Arab world was about them being political subjects.”
UNC professor Zeina Halabi in The Chronicle
In the latest episode of “Foreign Exchange,” Peter Feaver and Bruce Jentleson examine the presidential races post-Iowa, including how we may hear Hillary Clinton “almost calling (Bernie Sanders) out” on foreign policy and how Marco Rubio’s strong finish in Iowa might elevate the foreign policy debate among Republicans.
Duke alumnus Ken Hubbard (Class of 1965) began collecting presidential campaign buttons when he was 10. Hubbard has donated his collection of thousands of buttons --one of which dates back to 1840 -- to Duke’s Rubenstein Library.
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