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Thomson Reuters WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Urged by his Yale University classmates to resign as treasury secretary following President Donald Trump’s response to a white nationalist protest, Steven Mnuchin said on Saturday he would stay in office and that Trump “in no way, shape or form” equates neo-Nazis with peaceful protesters. Mnuchin, along with other members […]
Mark Wilson/Getty Images Members of treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin’s 1985 Yale class are urging him to resign from the Trump administration in protest. The group cited President Donald Trump’s handling of the deadly Charlottesville, Virginia, rally last weekend in an open letter to Mnuchin being circulated on Friday, Yale Daily News reported. More than 290 […]
GUEST: Experts from Yale and Oxford University recently released their research on how AI will transform modern life by reshaping transportation, finance, health, science, and the military. Key findings pointed toward a 50 percent chance that AI will outperform humans in every job in 45 years’ time. How can we anticipate and manage trends in […]
Carolina Williams High school senior Carolina Williams was accepted into Yale after penning an essay about an unconventional topic — Papa John’s pizza. “When I saw that the prompt was ‘Write about what you love to do,’ my very first thought was order pizza from Papa John’s,” Williams told Business Insider on Wednesday. “I order pizza from […]
Yale University students are upset after insensitive Yelp reviews from a college dean emerged, mocking service people as “morons” and referring to restaurant patrons as “white trash,” the Yale Daily News reported. The reviews were discovered after Pierson College Dean June Chu sent a letter to students in the residential college announcing she had become […]
Timothy Snyder is the author of “On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century” and the Levin professor of history at Yale University. Snyder explains how governments use tragedies to manipulate society. Following is a transcript: TIMOTHY SNYDER: So 9/11, a massive terrorist attack mainly against this city, led us to give up a good […]
Thomson Reuters Yale University will change the name of its Calhoun College after protesters said the Ivy League school should drop the honor it gave to an alumnus who was a prominent advocate of U.S. slavery, the university said on Saturday. The college is named for John C. Calhoun, a South Carolina native who served […]
