Meet the finalists for Mayor Schewel’s vacant city council seat
By Bre Bradham | January 5, 2018Sheila Arias Abonza was busy planning a Martin Luther King Jr. day celebration when she got a Facebook message on Thursday afternoon.
Sheila Arias Abonza was busy planning a Martin Luther King Jr. day celebration when she got a Facebook message on Thursday afternoon.
In a state in which both sides claim the other has threatened the institution of democracy with gerrymandering, a Duke professor suggests that there’s a better way out.
A grassroots commission involving several members of the Duke community is working to hold North Carolina accountable for its role in a controversial CIA program terminated by the Obama administration in 2009.
Lime green and bright orange bikes have been popping up around campus and in Durham as part of the city’s new effort to provide an affordable form of transportation.
For the first time since 2001, Durham officially has a new mayor. Steve Schewel, Trinity '73 and Ph.D. '82, was sworn into office Monday. He recently sat down with The Chronicle’s Ben Leonard to discuss some of the challenges he faces as a new mayor.
On Monday night, the city of Durham did something that it has not done in 16 years—it swore in a new mayor.
Despite multiple women accusing Republican Roy Moore of sexual misconduct, Moore’s Alabama colleagues in the House of Representatives, Bradley Byrne, Trinity ‘77, and Mo Brooks, Trinity ‘75, are standing by him.
Reince Priebus, former chairman of the Republican National Committee, holds the record for the shortest tenure as White House Chief of Staff. Yet, Priebus still maintains a close relationship with the president.
Podesta spoke to The Chronicle and Duke Political Review about Donald Trump's presidency, the future of the Democratic Party and special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election.
John Podesta, Hillary Clinton’s former campaign chairman, has gotten his fair share of scrutiny from the right-wing media like the Daily Caller regarding a variety of conspiracy theories.
Graduate students participated in a walk-out from class and work Wednesday afternoon to protest the proposed Republican tax bill.
In an increasingly polarized political climate with a 24-hours news cycle and where social media has become a platform for political discourse, the last thing people seem willing to do is listen to opposing viewpoints.
The day after President Donald Trump was elected, a palpable sense of shock overcame the campus. Since then, Duke faculty and staff have become far more politically involved.
An anthropologist from South Africa spoke on campus Monday about the causes of the country's high rate of interpersonal violence.
As climate change continues to occur, some of the strongest storms in American history have ravaged coastal cities.
It took seven-year-old Axel Herrera 18 days get from Honduras to the United States.
For many students on campus, election day in 2016 and the days both before and after were emotionally draining.
With her fourth baby due on Donald Trump’s inauguration day, Kathy Tran realized she couldn’t ignore the political climate or sit on the sidelines anymore. So, she decided to run for the Virginia House of Delegates.
Today, the Washington Post published a report in which eight women accused Charlie Rose, Trinity ‘64 and Law ‘68, of unwanted sexual advances.
Two students have created an after-school program at a nearby middle school intended to broaden participation in computer science. Now, they are trying to expand the curriculum.