Opinion

Marie Tillman: Icon of patriotism sought conversation, not confrontation

By Marie Tillman Special to The Washington Post I often think about what legacy means, and I’ve learned ...

Opinion

Francis Koster: How fixing schools can help solve America’s rising health care costs

Third in a four-part series One in five Americans works in or attends a K-12 school. If these ...

Opinion

Cokie and Steven Roberts: What happens to Trumpism now?

By Cokie Roberts and Steven V. Roberts Now that Democrats have won the House majority by a slim ...

Opinion

Elizabeth Cook: 40 years and a revolution ago

A lot has happened in Salisbury over the past 40 years, the span of my career at the ...

Opinion

Clyde, Time Was: We honor the brave and the bold

Time was, we were determined. What makes us so? We give up too easily. De + terminus, Latin ...

Opinion

Gene Lyons: What the internet’s doing to our … oh, look at this!

Among other eccentricities, I do not possess a smartphone and have never wanted one. It’s bad enough that ...

Opinion

Sharon Randall: Interviewing for my next career

Few things make me happier than indulging in a deep philosophical discussion with one of my favorite philosophers ...

Opinion

Four agenda items for the new Congress

By Barry Ritholtz Bloomberg Opinion  After being locked out of power for the past two years, Democrats won ...

Opinion

Cal Thomas: Will Democrats seize the moment, or vice versa?

We are about to find out whether Democrats meant it when they lamented the loss of civility in ...

Opinion

Colin Campbell: Spellings’ departure should prompt reset at UNC

Imagine you decide to quit your job. You tell your boss, and he or she thanks you for ...

Opinion

John Hood: What to do if you lose

RALEIGH — As I write, the results of the 2018 midterm elections are not yet known. It’s possible ...

Opinion

Albert Hunt: These aren’t your father’s Democrats

Bloomberg Opinion  Remember the Watergate class of 1974? I do, and the 2018 class of House Democratic challengers ...

Opinion

Francis Koster: Lack of pure air in schools causes students to score poorly

Second in a four-part series American schools rank in the bottom half of the world’s richest 35 countries. ...

Columns

Clyde, Time Was: Life revolved around the kitchen table

Time was, we sat around the kitchen table. We only went into the dining room to eat. A ...

Opinion

Leonard Pitts: We could lose our country, or save it

‘What are these politicians going to do for us?” A guy in Texas asked that question a few ...

Opinion

Larry Efird: Be blessed?

Here in the South, we use a number of expressions — some of them that state exactly what ...

Opinion

Sharon Randall: A Carolina homecoming

A lifetime ago, I grew up in these blue mountains on the border between the Carolinas. After college, ...

Opinion

John Hood: NC, the tech mecca

RALEIGH — Where is the best place to find good employment opportunities in the technology industry? According to ...

Opinion

Byron York: A day of reckoning for Avenatti

Michael Avenatti, the lawyer for porn star Stormy Daniels and a 2020 Democratic presidential hopeful, jumped into the ...

Opinion

Colin Campbell: Which NC possibility will we see?

RALEIGH — Your vote in state House and Senate races could be your best chance to make a ...

Opinion

Cal Thomas: The sickness spreads

Just in time for Halloween comes a former male stripper, who drove a van with Trump stickers plastered ...

Opinion

Hugh Hewitt: Don’t blame politicians for violence they don’t encourage

By Hugh Hewitt Special To The Washington Post  After the arrest of a Florida man for sending homemade ...

Columnists

Francis Koster: A surprising way to fix schools

First in a four-part series Locally, the school system of Rowan/Salisbury ranks in the bottom quarter of the ...

Opinion

Elizabeth Cook: Year of the woman? That was ages ago

“It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but ...

Opinion

Clyde, Time Was: Beware of Chicken Springs

Time was, if you went in the woods, something might “git” you. We knew about the boogie man ...

Opinion

David Shribman: Myths about midterms and this moment in history

This may not be the election we think it is. American politics always has been a curious admixture ...

Opinion

Charles Lane: How Sandra Day O’Connor led America

By Charles Lane The Washington Post Citing a diagnosis of dementia probably related to Alzheimer’s disease, retired Supreme ...

Opinion

Sharon Randall: My scariest Halloween

The most terrifying Halloween story of my life had nothing to do with ghosts or monsters or severed ...

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