“Yes, pharmaceutical companies are charging exorbitant prices for many of their products. But patients do not receive expensive medications unless physicians prescribe them,” writes physician and behavioral scientist Peter Ubel.
in Forbes
Politicians love to say the word “infrastructure,” says Henry Petroski. But turning words into action is a different matter.
Fighting Extremism
David Schanzer in The Charlotte Observer
Scalia’s “admirers are right that he was brilliant and that he cultivated a bold vision of the Constitution, but these qualities are precisely the source of the damage he leaves behind him,” writes law professor Jedediah Purdy.
in The New Yorker
In 2008, Duke alumnus Macon Phillips was the Obama campaign's digital guru. Once Obama won the election, Phillips was behind many digital innovations at the White House. Recently, Sanford School Dean Kelly Brownell talked with Phillips, who is now with the State Department revamping America's "digital diplomacy."
in the Sanford School of Public Policy