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Designing Reality: an Interview with Yale Architecture Professor Mark Foster Gage

Rory SchoenbergerMarch 21, 2025March 21, 2025

It feels good to pretend to solve them with architecture, but it’s probably not the right tool. I think we’re not teaching the cultural aspect of architecture enough, how it produces community and identity—even beauty—through a more aesthetically driven agenda.

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An Interview with Evan McMullin, Former Independent Presidential Candidate

Grace JinMarch 25, 2018July 7, 2019

“We’ve got to have leaders who will not give in to the temptation to exacerbate and then capitalize on those divisions for political purposes.”

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KERRY: Not Just Privilege, But Responsibility

John F. KerryAugust 30, 2017September 1, 2017

The former Secretary of State ’66 reflects on Yale.

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Pizza Politics: Lessons From the Pineapple Topping Controversy

Jane IronsMarch 28, 2017March 31, 2017

Iceland’s president joked he would make eating pizza with pineapple as a topping illegal if he could. Thus a heated debate began.

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An Interview with Amy Hollyfield of Politifact

Megan McQueenFebruary 18, 2017February 18, 2017

A conversation with the journalist who runs Politifact, a popular fact-checking website that rates politicians’ statements on their truthfulness.

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Transitions of Power: The U.S. and Gambia

Simon CooperJanuary 27, 2017January 30, 2017

The parallels between the situation in The Gambia and our own recent inauguration are difficult to miss.

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Breaking the Olive Branch: Why Hopes of an Israeli Unity Government Were Doomed From the Start

Adrian RiveraJune 17, 2016June 19, 2016

Why did Netanyahu spurn Labor and take a sharp turn to the right? And what should expect from the new Israeli Defense Minister? Adrian Rivera breaks it down for us.

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An Interview with Austan Goolsbee, former Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors

Rohit GoyalNovember 19, 2015

“The standard of evidence in academics is ten out of ten, and the time pressure is one out of ten. And in Washington, it’s kind of the reverse. The standard of evidence is much lower than in an academic setting, but you have to have it by Friday.”

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