Opinion

Sharon Randall: Making music and memories

Call me lucky. There I was, a sensible woman of a certain age in orthopedic shoes and elastic-waist ...

Opinion

John Hood: Temper political power with responsibility

RALEIGH — Are you frustrated with our political dialogue at the moment? If your answer is no, you ...

Opinion

Tom Campbell: The ideal New Year’s resolution for NC

While many are fretting over the just-right Christmas present, tackling last-minute holiday details or preparing for years-end, many ...

Opinion

Elizabeth Cook: Christmas is music to our ears

It started with the Hallmark movies. No, to be honest, the yearning for Christmas this year took hold ...

Opinion

Clyde, Time Was: We knew how to make a mess, even of Christmas

Time was, we were messy. We piled our dirty clothes on the floor and used a bedpost, hook ...

Opinion

Leonard Pitts: This is what actual election tampering looks like

I said it before, I’ll say it again. “As this country becomes blacker, browner, gayer, younger, more Hispanic ...

Lifestyle

David Freeze: Gotta Run

What’s in Santa’s bag for runners, walkers? Each year, I enjoy giving and getting running related gifts. The ...

Lifestyle

Kent Bernhardt: Merry Christmas – and have a dinner roll

’Tis’ the season for those holiday family gatherings, and that means lots of time for uncomfortable conversations with ...

Opinion

Cokie and Steven Roberts: A president who could laugh at himself

By Cokie Roberts and Steven V. Roberts A friend recently said, “I cannot read another column comparing George ...

Opinion

Sharon Randall: Words for Christmas

I’ve been thinking a lot about Christmas. I haven’t decorated a tree or even looked for the boxes ...

Opinion

Tom Campbell: Yes, Mark Harris, there is a Santa Claus

Back in 1897, an 8-year-old girl, prompted by naysaying friends, wrote The New York Sun wanting the truth ...

Opinion

John Hood: Silent Sam to get a fort

RALEIGH — In response to the toppling in August of the Confederate Monument at the University of North ...

Opinion

Colin Campbell: NC politicians are addicted to incentives

RALEIGH — If there’s one thing that can unite Republicans and Democrats in a polarized state legislature, it’s ...

Opinion

David Shribman: An American life, a life of purpose

So endeth one of the great American lives. It wasn’t the Ragged Dick up-from-poverty American life of a ...

Opinion

Byron York: Case against Flynn nears end

Michael Flynn has been waiting for more than a year to be sentenced. The retired three-star Army general, ...

Opinion

Elizabeth Cook: Our personal president

George H.W. Bush was already popular in Rowan County before he landed in Faith for its famous Fourth ...

Opinion

Cal Thomas: A man of character

I first met the man who would become America’s 41st president in 1968. He was a Houston congressman ...

Opinion

What did Mark Harris know, and when did he know it?

By Thomas Mills PoliticsNC.com Republicans who have been claiming that voter fraud is rampant finally have their proof ...

Opinion

David Shribman: The ‘Frontrunner’ and me

Long ago and far away — in 1987 and in New Hampshire, to be precise — a promising ...

Opinion

Elizabeth Cook: Start wrapping up another year

You have your Christmas traditions. In the Post newsroom, we have our end-of-the-year traditions. Instead of wrapping gifts, ...

Opinion

Clyde, Time Was: Of souls and gold and gathering moss

Time was, a stone gathered moss. “Far from the madding crowd’s ignoble strife.” Along a creek bank with ...

Opinion

Francis Koster: Clean school air is an investment opportunity

Experts are now certain that about half our nations’ schools have invisible problems with mold, dust, humidity, temperature ...

Opinion

John Hood: Redistributing income isn’t investment

RALEIGH — Whether your frame of reference is a country, a government, a business, or your own household, ...

Opinion

Colbert King: An odious record on race

 By Colbert I. King Special to The Washington Post Back in September 2016, eight weeks before Election Day, ...

Opinion

Cokie and Steven Roberts: The tide of truth keeps rising

By Cokie Roberts and Steven V. Roberts “I don’t believe it.” With those four words, President Donald Trump ...

Opinion

Leonard Pitts: The day we used tear gas on children

The United States is composed of 329 million people spread over 3.8 million square miles. In population and ...

Opinion

GM quandary: What’s good for business is bad optics

Watching Donald Trump carry on about General Motors’s announcement that it’s closing plants and firing almost 15,000 workers ...

Opinion

Tom Campbell: A different kind of Thanksgiving

Instead of going over the river and through the woods to Grandma’s house, we traveled east this Thanksgiving. ...

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