Duke is to be commended for taking some positive actions toward reducing its greenhouse gas emissions in recent years. But it is disappointing to learn that the target date for Duke’s next set of climate goals will be 25 years in the future — 2050. Simply put, when it comes to our climate, 2050 is far too late.
Burnout is a mental health challenge that can result from prolonged exposure to stress and involves feelings of exhaustion and detachment from work. I decided I wanted to understand the experience of college burnout and what, if anything, might prevent it
There’s a principle of rationality that helps guide choices within boundaries, maximizing what we can achieve without crossing those personal limits. It’s simple, in theory: know your limits and make choices that respect them, allowing you to perform at your best.
The world is very different now compared to how it used to be 100,000 years ago. But some human trials have stood the test of time: through the years, we’ve struggled with confronting our mortality. One way we try to cope with that is by leaving a piece of ourselves behind.
Why should we expect our politicians and our fellow citizens to endorse outcomes they disagree with? Why shouldn’t we go out of our way to find reasons to reject a result we find objectionable?
Deadline just broke the news that Durham will host a new romantic comedy following a messy love triangle of three Duke students.
As the Hispanic vote becomes less blue each election cycle, news outlets continue to wonder why. In 2016 Democrats won 65% of the Hispanic vote, and in 2020 this percentage lowered to 62%. But a recent poll in The New York Times estimates that only 52% of Hispanic voters will go for Harris while 40% will vote Trump.
With so much having already been said — on all sides — about tomorrow’s election, I am taking my cue for this column from the Irish poet Pádraig Ó Tuama.
It’s fun to take it easy in a conversation and simply toy holistically with ideas instead of analyzing them. It brings out more humanity than most investigative discussions. These small conversations let us engage without the pressure of certainty, making room for genuine understanding. It’s not about proving a point but about grasping how someone else views the world.
There’s nothing quite like the buzz of competition among students. Whether it's vying for top grades, landing a coveted internship, or just showcasing who has the better campus spirit, the need to one-up each other is practically baked into academic culture. But is it really that serious? Or are we just overthinking it?
The 2024 election poses the starkest of choices, with the values we profess as Americans — justice for all, the expansion of opportunity, environmental stewardship, world leadership, the freedoms we hold dear — on the line. Also at stake, to a degree that has rarely been true of American elections, are the bedrock principles and norms of constitutional democracy, the foundation upon which all else is built.
Alone in Washington D.C., I had to adjust to unforeseen challenges to realize solitude isn't synonymous with loneliness.
Artistic exploration and connection are cornerstones of a lot of liberal arts campuses. Why, and how are we lacking the spirit?
In Gaza, hundreds of thousands of families are cut off from all aid, and the region has been without adequate food and water for months. More children have died from conflict there in four months than have died globally in the last four years.
In the era of culture wars and ideologically driven strife, belief in good faith communication has waned. Despite this, or perhaps because of it, we share lessons learned from two years of collaborating on a research project at Duke University’s Sanford School of Public Policy examining racial bias in jury selection processes, and jury composition as well as efforts to improve them.
The trouble is that an education concerned foremost with breadth of study is unable to capture what makes each subject profound and absorbing. What we really want is penetration into an idea, an understanding and attunement to all its facets and connections.
Scientology can feel like this momentous connection between the two, a bridge between science and the spiritual, a biological essentialism to questions often regarded to be supernatural. But bringing an essentialist argument into a spiritual intervention is more fertile ground for psychiatric abuse than it is for self-transcendence.
Individuals who discover fraud — including those at universities — may feel overwhelmed and intimidated by the power of the institution that is home to the misconduct. It can seem like a David versus Goliath battle. But the False Claims Act (FCA) provides each David with an arsenal of incentives and weapons.
Nevertheless, Governor Parsons has made it clear that he uses, his view of, Christian values to guide his decision-making as Governor. However, on that September afternoon in Missouri, Governor Parsons rejected the very words of Christ himself. The Governor believed he was justified in his decision to execute Marcellus Williams because he believed Williams was guilty.
I’m not even sure wealth is the premier issue here. The girls interviewing us may have just been looking to relate based on shared experiences of themselves or their friends. A faultless phenomenon.
