It would be a bit much to call Sen. Mitt Romney a paragon of political virtue. But the Utah senator and 2012 Republican presidential nominee d…
Those who say America isn’t a racist nation (Michael Reagan column, "America is not a land of racists," Sept. 12), citing numerous instances o…
So, Ruth Bader Ginsburg is dead, and all I can think about is my sunflowers.
Four years ago, Democrats slouched to the polls and voted, holding their noses figuratively. Somehow the party had come up with a presidential…
The coronavirus pandemic and resulting unemployment crisis have thrown into sharp relief the value of North Carolina’s community colleges.
In 2008, artist Shepard Fairey’s iconic image of then-senator and presidential candidate Barack Obama with the word “hope” emblazoned below be…
If you are unlucky enough to live in one of the dozen or so states where the campaigns of President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe…
RALEIGH — Most North Carolina schoolchildren began this academic year trying to learn from home rather than at school. How’s it going so far?
This is for the people who keep asking me about Chicago.
LOS ANGELES — We gave a damn too late.
RALEIGH — I have repeatedly criticized Roy Cooper’s troubling efforts to amass power in the governor’s office at the expense of other elected …
A number of Northern California wildfires sent a thick, sometimes orange-glowing haze over the state Wednesday that left the Bay Area in an ee…
When I wrote earlier that the fall semester at UNC-Chapel Hill would be a test case for broader reopening in society, this isn’t quite what I …
“If you have a problem figuring out whether you’re for me or Trump, then you ain’t Black.”
The pandemic originated in China and 2020 is the Year of the Rat in the Chinese lunar calendar.
A few years ago we enrolled our oldest daughter in pre-K. As much as we liked the teachers and the school, one thing kept worrying us: the lac…
Much has been written recently about the city of Greensboro requiring its law enforcement officers not only to obtain written consent to searc…
As we reflect on the anniversary of the end of World War II, I hope we will pause and consider all the contributions in war and in peace of th…
President Trump is being criticized, very much, for using the White House as a backdrop for political television. But today he fought back, an…
Glenn "Doc" Rivers is reportedly paid $10 million a year to coach The L.A. Clippers. It is not enough.
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Addiction took the life of my daughter in 2015, just as it has so cruelly snuffed out so many other promising lights in North Carolina. By 201…
As we near another municipal election, an assessment of our area economy seems to be in order. The United Way's study on area wages sets the stage.
The current issue of Time magazine features essays, interviews and conversations on “The New American Revolution: Visions of a Black Future th…
Asheville’s city council was the first in the state to do it. Charlotte’s mayor, not sure she could get her council’s support, did it alone.
The news has been coming fast and furiously from the UNC System in recent days and little of it has been good. To the surprise of just about n…
RALEIGH — Although working from home provides a great deal of flexibility and potential benefits, professional and personal, most of us don’t …
The last few months have been hard and continue to be devastating for people in our community who have lost loved ones, their ability to earn …
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