The first Black Republican to serve in the U.S. Senate was a preacher by the name of Hiram Revels. He was born free, to free parents, in 1827. Mississippi state legislators sent Revels to Washington in 1870 to fill one of two vacancies. When the state seceded in 1861, both its senators went …
A little less than a year out from the election, and the headlines are preoccupied with the latest bad poll for the president. The New York Times even wonders whether the president is “toast” as hand-wringing spreads across the progressive community. While this might sound familiar to anyone…
RALEIGH — For political journalists, a standard tool of the trade is the New Year prediction column. Especially when the date is an even number, signifying the start of a presidential or midterm election cycle, pundits typically offer up a series of forecasts about who will win, who will los…
Almost everything I hope for when it comes to foreign policy in 2024 seems outlandishly Pollyanna-ish. But a person has the right to dream, don’t they? So here goes. I hope that Ronald Reagan will pay a supernatural New Year’s visit to Washington, to enlighten MAGA isolationists on how Vladi…
RALEIGH — Before Thomas Jefferson died in 1826, he wrote his own epitaph. Did he mention any of his elected offices? No. Jefferson wanted only three accomplishments listed on his gravestone: author of the Declaration of Independence, founder of the University of Virginia, and author of the V…
Kimmy Garris, who describes herself as a "fat solo traveler," probably had no idea that her 30-second TikTok video was going to cause a sensation when she recorded herself in September politely asking a Southwest Airlines gate agent if she could avail herself of the airline's "customer of si…
If charisma is a gift, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is clearly working with lumps of coal. His town hall on CNN last week confirmed it, but we had a pretty good sense already. Back in February, NPR reported that Donald Trump was viewed twice as unfavorably among conservatives as DeSantis. When …
A little less than a year out from the election, and the headlines are preoccupied with the latest bad poll for the president. The New York Times even wonders whether the president is “toast” as hand-wringing spreads across the progressive community. While this might sound familiar to anyone reading about President Joe Biden in recent weeks, I’m referring to the polling and headlines that ...
Five years ago, on Nov. 25, 2018, the world learned that a rogue Chinese scientist, He Jiankui, had created the first children whose DNA had been tailored using gene editing before they were born. They were twins, code-named “Lulu” and “Nana,” whose genomes were altered with CRISPR gene-editing technology in the hope of giving them some protection against HIV. Two days later, the Second ...
RALEIGH — Our state’s constitutional system mirrors the federal system in some ways. North Carolina has three branches of government, for example. We have a bicameral legislature. And we have a judiciary composed of trial courts, a court of appeals, and a supreme court.
Republicans and Democrats don’t seem to agree on much these days. But despite the gridlock in Congress, both political parties have for years supported spending billions on Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) education. Their goals include reducing perceived shortages of STEM workers, boosting American innovation and competitiveness and diversifying this highly paid workforce. The ...
Round and round it goes; where it stops nobody knows. As our democracy is circling the drain, so goes the rationales and excuses for not stopping former President Donald Trump from holding the highest office again. Americans should welcome the courts stepping in an attempt to stop chaotic do…
RALEIGH — Ever since Republicans won control of the North Carolina General Assembly in 2010 and began reforming the state’s tax code, progressive critics have argued that taxes play little to no role in shaping economic outcomes.
This year's presidential election campaign is likely to be remembered as a year in which voters pondered a rematch no one really wanted. President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump are likely to win their parties' nominations. Yet a recent Associated Press-NORC poll found that 58% …
As a new presidential election year begins, America’s Republicans have already chosen their candidate. According to every poll, the rank-and-file have overwhelmingly united behind former President Donald J. Trump. The Republican National Committee requirement that any presidential hopeful wh…
RALEIGH — For political journalists, a standard tool of the trade is the New Year prediction column. Especially when the date is an even number, signifying the start of a presidential or midterm election cycle, pundits typically offer up a series of forecasts about who will win, who will los…
I almost spit out my Geritol the other day when I read what one young voter in Philadelphia told NBC News about why she is disillusioned about the upcoming presidential election. "I don't think the presidency has too much of an effect on what happens in my day-to-day life," said Pru Carmicha…
My New Year's resolution 12 months ago was to write fewer columns about Donald Trump. That well-intended goal met the same end as most New Year's resolutions; I soon fell off the wagon and wrote more columns about Trump in 2023 than I had the prior year. Like it or not, the former president …
RALEIGH — Before Thomas Jefferson died in 1826, he wrote his own epitaph. Did he mention any of his elected offices? No. Jefferson wanted only three accomplishments listed on his gravestone: author of the Declaration of Independence, founder of the University of Virginia and author of the Vi…
Almost everything I hope for when it comes to foreign policy in 2024 seems outlandishly Pollyanna-ish. But a person has the right to dream, don’t they? So here goes. I hope that Ronald Reagan will pay a supernatural New Year’s visit to Washington, to enlighten MAGA isolationists on how Vladi…
RALEIGH — Before Thomas Jefferson died in 1826, he wrote his own epitaph. Did he mention any of his elected offices? No. Jefferson wanted only three accomplishments listed on his gravestone: author of the Declaration of Independence, founder of the University of Virginia, and author of the V…
WALNUT CREEK, Calif. — For those who doubt Joe Biden's capacity to be president, Herb Klar has a suggestion: Swing by his neighborhood sometime. "They don't come to Rossmoor and see all the octagenarians ... and see how lively and bright and competent we all are," said Klar, 76, a retired cl…
Sometimes, it seems that we’re doing all we can to sabotage our own efforts to reverse the nation’s mental health and addiction crises, which disproportionately affect children, teens and young adults. Particularly here in Illinois, where we’re on pace to surpass our current record highs in …
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