Opinion

Steven V. Roberts: Two truly terrible ideas

The Biden White House seems tempted by two truly terrible ideas. One would expand the Supreme Court to ...

Columnists

Sharon Randall: Sister songs float through the breeze

By Sharon Randall At sunset, a breeze blew in from the coast and swirled up the valley, ruffling ...

Columnists

John Hood: Too many workers are sidelined

By John Hood RALEIGH — The latest federal job report is out — and it shows North Carolina’s ...

Opinion

Gary Pearce: Roy and Phil’s ‘Excellent’ school adventure

By Gary Pearce Bipartisanship, like pollen, has been in the air in Raleigh lately. Both will be gone ...

Columnists

My Turn, Kenneth L. Hardin: COVID-19 came to visit me, too

By Kenneth L. Hardin As hard as I’ve tried over the last year to avoid it, I had ...

Columnists

Clyde: Get out of your hibernaculum 

By Clyde Ah, the first signs of spring — groundhog sightings, the first warm day, the first worm ...

Opinion

Nalini Joseph: Children deserve to live in bubbles of safety

By Nalini Joseph Human trafficking and sexual exploitation of children does not appear to be going away in ...

Opinion

Steven V. Roberts: Turning pain into purpose

When I read about the senseless killing of Daunte Wright by a Minnesota police officer, I thought of ...

Opinion

Byron York: Democratic pollsters acknowledge: we nearly lost

Just six months ago — it seems like so much longer — many Democrats were supremely confident about ...

Guest columns

Thomas Mills: Trump primary takes shape in North Carolina

Editor’s note: The following are excerpts from recent columns by Thomas Mills, founder and publisher of PoliticsNC.com, on ...

Columnists

Gary Pearce: FDR to LBJ to Joe Biden

By Gary Pearce Joe Biden’s surprisingly progressive presidency looks more like Franklin D. Roosevelt and Lyndon B. Johnson ...

Columnists

John Hood: Corporate tax should be priority

By John Hood RALEIGH — North Carolina state government is headed into the 2021-22 fiscal year with nearly ...

Columnists

Sharon Randall: Praying for better COVID-free days

By Sharon Randall It’s been so long since I’ve traveled anywhere. I’ve almost forgotten how to pack. Thirty ...

Columnists

My Turn, Kendal Mobley: ‘Fame’ referendum, other assumptions based on false premises

By Kendal Mobley Several recent letters to the Post have called for a referendum to reconsider the relocation ...

Opinion

Byron York: Justice Thomas says courts will rule on social media sooner or later

It started as one of those ridiculous controversies of the Trump era. In May and June 2017, then-President ...

Opinion

Steven V. Roberts: These ‘political orphans’ deserve help

For two decades, Irma Chavez has lived in legal limbo. An Arkansas businesswoman with four American-born children, she ...

Columnists

My Turn, Ed Norvell: Do we want to continue to litigate Confederate monument?

Over the past couple of weeks there has been a letter writing campaign opposing the move of the Confederate ...

Columnists

Gary Pearce: Lieutenant governors can be governors’ nightmares

By Gary Pearce As a Black conservative Republican, Mark Robinson isn’t North Carolina’s traditional lieutenant governor. But he’s ...

Columnists

Guest columnist: Say ‘no’ to Biden-Buttigieg mileage tax

By Ray Nothstine In an interview last month on CNBC, Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg can hardly hold in ...

Opinion

John Hood: Political fantasies can be costly

By John Hood RALEIGH — It’s hard not to play along when children come up with cute untruths. ...

Opinion

Leonard Pitts: ‘A change gon’ come’

Dear Republicans: Let’s just say this plainly. You are a people lacking integrity and honor. And you have ...

Columnists

Ada Fisher: Getting high at whose expense?

By Ada Fisher Government officials and those believing erroneously that “pot” is not harmful are remiss in doing ...

My Turn

My Turn, Chris White: Focus on advantages of successful immigration policies

By Chris White In these early months of the Biden administration, we have seen another surge of migrants ...

Guest columns

Nalini Joseph: This Easter, give thanks for blessings we’ll enjoy

By Nalini Joseph On Easter 2020, for the first time in history, many Americans watched vigils and services ...

Opinion

Byron York: Biden’s FDR delusion

By Byron York In early March, President Joe Biden met with a group of seven historians in the ...

Guest columns

Steve Roberts: Become a caring community

By Steve Roberts While warming up for a recent tennis match, a pal said, “We’ve all been vaccinated. ...

Columnists

Clyde: Build it and they won’t come

By Clyde Now look what you’ve gone and done. You only just have to look around to see ...

Guest columns

Grace Galloway: It was just a bad day?

By Grace Galloway “He had a bad day” That is the excuse that Georgia Capt. Jay Baker gave ...

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