As he recited a saying from fugitive cop killer Assata Shakur, Bryan Proffitt’s voice steadily rose above the placard-carrying crowd Friday morning in downtown Durham. A diverse group of more than 100 heard Proffitt and a series of speakers spread a message of peace, love, common humanity — and strident opposition to the Trump administration’s...
RALEIGH — “When I’m president of the United States next year, we won’t just have a president that goes around saying America is the greatest country in the world, we’re going to have a president that acts like America is the greatest country in the world,” said Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., to a Saturday rally in Raleigh.
Sen. Ted Cruz sees America much as it was in 1980, seeking a strong yet principled leader. But his political memoir reminds us how difficult it is for even reformers to change the status quo.
Veteran journalist Allan Ryskind notes how the Hollywood Ten defended Stalin and Hitler when their Communist Party bosses told them to.
It took a village to produce Hillary Clinton's memoir, and the text betrays extensive vetting. The accounts are perfectly predictable.
The fawning Western press continues to paint a flattering picture of Castro's Cuba with no justification whatsoever.
Pete Seeger was consistent; he never opposed war itself, just U.S. military efforts to halt Soviet colonialism.
Agree with them or not, this collection of speeches by Sen. Jesse Helms is notable for its command of the issues.
RALEIGH — He left office more than 20 years ago, but the late President Ronald Reagan still exercises a major influence over American politics and public policy. Steven Hayward examines that influence in his two-volume narrative history of the 40th president, The Age of Reagan. Hayward, F.K. Weyerhauser Fellow in law and economics at the American Enterprise Institute and senior fellow at the Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy, discussed Reagan’s impact with Mitch Kokai for Carolina Journal Radio.
RALEIGH — This semester the College of Arts & Sciences at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill received approval to start a semester abroad program in Cuba. The university teamed with the University of Havana. A leading critic of the Castro dictatorship said the program implies legitimizing the present Cuban regime. UNC officials, however, point to Cuba as a nation “on the brink of transition” and said that “whether there is going to be a peaceful transition or a violent transition there is of great importance to us.”
This semester the College of Arts & Sciences at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has begun a semester abroad program in Cuba. UNC-CH officials say they want a "head start" on Cuba for when relations improve between Cuba and the U.S. Critics say the university implies legitimizing a dictatorship.
