"Gov. McCrory has put this state back on a path of economic prosperity after inheriting a large deficit from the previous governor," writes Madison Laton, an intern for the McCrory campaign and vice chair of Duke College Republicans. Counters Steve Hassey, vice president of Duke Democrats, “Gov. McCrory has been a consistent defender of HB2 and has had to deal with the negative economic consequences of that support.”
Public policy professor Phil Bennett, a former managing editor of The Washington Post and PBS’ FRONTLINE, produced a documentary that looks at the life stories of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. Rather than interviewing the candidates, the filmmakers talked with the people around them to better understand where they come from and what’s shaped them. Bennett discusses the documentary, which aired last night on PBS, with Sanford Dean Kelly Brownell.
Phil Bennett and Kelly Brownell in the Policy 360 podcast
“Trump … lost an opportunity to gain some real momentum from the slow slippage of support from Secretary Clinton in North Carolina and elsewhere,” says public policy’s Mac McCorkle.
A Divided America
At times of cultural crisis, build bridges, not barriers
Amy Laura Hall in Lancaster Online
NC Governor’s Race
Duke Democrats and Republicans work to influence McCrory-Cooper gubernatorial contest
"Gov. McCrory has put this state back on a path of economic prosperity after inheriting a large deficit from the previous governor," writes Madison Laton, an intern for the McCrory campaign and vice chair of Duke College Republicans. Counters Steve Hassey, vice president of Duke Democrats, “Gov. McCrory has been a consistent defender of HB2 and has had to deal with the negative economic consequences of that support.”
Madison Laton and Steve Hassey in The Chronicle
Donald Trump
Duke student Mitchell Siegel on supporting Donald Trump
Donald Trump
The meaning in Trump’s refusal to admit support for Iraq war
Joseph Grieco writing in The News & Observer
The Choice: 2016
Examining the life stories of Clinton and Trump
Public policy professor Phil Bennett, a former managing editor of The Washington Post and PBS’ FRONTLINE, produced a documentary that looks at the life stories of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. Rather than interviewing the candidates, the filmmakers talked with the people around them to better understand where they come from and what’s shaped them. Bennett discusses the documentary, which aired last night on PBS, with Sanford Dean Kelly Brownell.
Phil Bennett and Kelly Brownell in the Policy 360 podcast
Refugees
Louis Yako on how to best help refugees
Nominating Justices
Applying game theory to the Supreme Court confirmation fight
David McAdams in the Harvard Business Review
Presidential Debate
Duke faculty give Clinton the edge in first debate
“Trump … lost an opportunity to gain some real momentum from the slow slippage of support from Secretary Clinton in North Carolina and elsewhere,” says public policy’s Mac McCorkle.
Duke faculty in Duke Today
Presidential Debates
Fact-checking the presidential debate
Presidential Debates
Facebook Live post-debate discussion