When former president Barack Obama warned us about Joe Biden, he did it in no uncertain terms. He said (and since this is a family publication, I’ll edit as necessary) that we were never to underestimate Joe’s ability to mess things up. “Mess” is the kind word for the f-bomb dysphemism Obama used. At the...
Voters will decide on six constitutional amendments in the general election, including those involving victims rights, hunting rights, and a photo ID requirement to vote. More amendments will appear on the Nov. 6 ballot than in any single election since the adoption of the 1971 N.C. Constitution. Republicans could be using the amendments to drum...
North Carolina’s traditional approach to public policy has failed. We have one of the worst-performing economies in the United States.
If America had matched its bellicose rhetoric with credible military preparations, war might well have been avoided altogether.
North and South Carolina may have begun life as part of the same 17th century colony, but they soon became very different places.
The Republican presidential contest might be running contemporaneously with the NCAA basketball tournament at the moment, but the two sports have little in common.
RALEIGH — In a nation that elected its first black president in 2008, has 44 black members of Congress (nearly half from the southeast), and reached an all-time high in racially integrated neighborhoods after the last census, observers wonder whether so-called “majority-minority” districts are still needed.
RALEIGH — One of the goals of the Pope Center and the North Carolina History Project is to bring to campuses ideas and information that have been neglected. That happened in November when the organizations sponsored a lecture by University of Alabama history professor David Beito. He spoke at St. Augustine’s College, North Carolina Central, N.C. State, and Campbell University.
Hillary Clinton’s resurgence did not just raise up North Carolina’s May 6 primary. I think that North Carolina has become the most important prize in the Clinton-Obama contest.
Politicians almost always make bad decisions when they or their loudest constituents feel panicky. It's time to separate the rational fears from the irrational ones.
Plenty of incumbents are seizing up their potential opposition and mapping out their political strategies for the 2004 elections. Here's why they're nervous.
