On Tuesday afternoon, the North Carolina Chamber of Commerce hosted its annual meeting and awards ceremony, highlighting some of the most innovative and bold leaders in the state.
Last year, the Republican legislature passed the Parents Bill of Rights (PBR) over Gov. Roy Cooper’s veto. The PBR gives parents the right, among other things, to challenge supplementary materials — including library books — that contain content parents find objectionable. Based on my recent experience representing a parent in an appeal to the Charlotte-Mecklenburg school...
When I tell my friends and colleagues that I’ve started taking ice baths each day, I usually get the same quizzical look. And I can understand why. Why I would willfully submerge myself in sub-40 degree-Fahrenheit water for six minutes is a real headscratcher. Our auto response as human beings is to seek comfort and...
Going viral in the context of a hospital is almost never a good thing. And this week Duke Health and its medical school went viral in a way that certainly made a few administrators sick to their stomachs, as the Daily Wire’s Ben Shapiro revealed disturbing DEI-related policies at the North Carolina health provider. One...
North Carolina in among 10 states where zero current lawmakers hold or last worked in manual labor, service industry, clerical, or other jobs that the Duke researchers considered "working class."
Six newly re-enacted criminal penalties in the Charlotte City Code have now gone into effect, including ones for solicitation from a median strip, open containers, and behavior related to sleeping in city parks.
In December 2023, my family attended the North Carolina Theatre’s production of Elf. It was another thrilling night back with old friends in my nearly 40-year association with North Carolina’s largest professional theatre company — one of the few in America primarily dedicated to producing Broadway-caliber musicals with a world class youth-training organization. The vision...
Over the weekend two more promising young lives were snuffed out in what police speculate were accidental drug overdoses. In sleepy but growing Raleigh suburbs, young families are burying their children because drugs and fentanyl poisoning are quite literally claiming a generation of Americans. In this case, two young athletes died overnight on Saturday in...
Six years ago, the state of North Carolina, the United States, and the world lost a giant. Billy Graham, world evangelist and faith leader, represented North Carolina’s best: a man of service, humility, and devout faith. Despite his accomplishments and the millions of miles traveled worldwide for his famous crusades, Graham possessed an admirable humility...
North Carolina experienced a 19.2% spike in background checks for gun purchases in 2023, according to FBI data, the third highest rate of all 50 states.
“God is dead,” observed the title character of Thus Spoke Zarathustra, written by philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche in 1883. The notorious claim, often interpreted as a celebratory declaration, was not delivered as a boast. Rather, Nietzsche made his observation about a rapidly changing Western culture with a profound sense of foreboding. The fear arose from the...
