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RECESS | CULTURE

Smoke-Filled Rooms: ‘Daredevil’ as a parable of contemporary political illusion

There are no heroes in smoke-filled rooms. There are only silhouettes: blurred, shifting, shaped by whispers and the promise of power. In “Daredevil: Born Again,” Disney's revival of the Netflix series, Matt Murdock’s return is less a triumphant homecoming and more a descent into a darkness that requires not masks or fists, but rather silence, consent of the governed (or lack thereof) and crisis.








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OPINION

Oh, the places you’ll go

This job has taken me to many places. Literally — from Durham to Clemson to New York and beyond — but more than that, it’s taken me into moments of raw, fleeting emotion that I never would’ve witnessed otherwise.



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OPINION

On charging the grounder

This year, every time I walked into 301 Flowers and inevitably found our reporters, columnists and photographers chiseling away at their Pacemaker-award winning masterpieces, the norm did not apply. Every day challenged me and each person inspired me. The Chronicle made Duke exactly what I had hoped for.