Opinion

Gary Pearce: Governor, pro-tem and pandemic powers

 By Gary Pearce Politics and the pandemic are inseparable in North Carolina. Last year’s gubernatorial election got caught up in ...

Opinion

Leonard Pitts: No way for decent people to ‘unite’ with racism, anti-Semitism or homophobia

It’s been said of Abraham Lincoln that he had a “mystical” devotion to the idea of Union. His ...

Columnists

John Hood: Federal bailout would punish our state

By John Hood RALEIGH — Now that Democrats control the White House and both chambers of Congress (however ...

Opinion

Sharon Randall: Together, we’ll be all right

By Sharon Randall One of the finer qualities that sets humans apart from other species is our capacity ...

Columnists

DG Martin: Three North Carolina-connected women Democrats to keep an eye on

By D.G. Martin Three North Carolina-connected women Democrats broke the mold in the recent congressional elections. The “mold” ...

Columnists

Josh Bergeron: Keep local elections unlike national politics

More than two months ago, on Nov. 8, an Associated Press story on the front page of the ...

Guest columns

Guest columnist: School board member in hot water over DC rally

By Ray Nothstine Sherry-Lynn Womack finds herself in the proverbial hot water. Her crime? Womack went up to ...

Guest columns

Cal Thomas: They’re coming to America

By Cal Thomas In 1980, singer Neil Diamond recorded a song that celebrated American immigration, first in the ...

Columnists

Nalini Joseph: Business skills needed on path to greatness

By Nalini Joseph I was sitting at Hoff’s Grill on Innes street enjoying the biggest “half chicken” I ...

Columnists

Fran Koster: Too many fighting wrong enemy

By Fran Koster The electronic environment that manages our economy and life support systems is being attacked by ...

Opinion

Steve Roberts: Burying the big lie

By Steven V. Roberts As Joe Biden takes office as the nation’s 46th president, one number should be ...

Guest columns

Byron York: Trump derangement syndrome in a post-Trump world

By Byron York President Trump is now former President Trump. With Joe Biden now President Biden, Democrats control ...

Columnists

My Turn, Ron Bowers: With apologies to Mr. Dickens, a tale of two shots and a suggestion

By Ron Bowers Hooray! Thursday, Jan. 14, my wife and I got our first COVID-19 shots. I had ...

Columnists

My Turn, Warren Bumgarner: Never forget what they tried to do

By Warren Bumgarner Wednesday, Jan. 6, is a day that shocked, saddened and angered the nation as we ...

Opinion

Gary Pearce: Gov. Cooper issues post-Trump challenge

By Gary Pearce As an old speechwriter, I’m a close reader of political speeches, especially important speeches such ...

Columnists

John Hood: Protect the right to be wrong

RALEIGH — I have strong opinions — but not about how to perform brain surgery, write a smartphone ...

Opinion

Leonard Pitts: But he wasn’t Black

By Leonard Pitts Jr. To the Republican Party: As the Trump administration stumbles through its final hours, it seems ...

My Turn

My Turn, David Post: Trump is no Grover Cleveland

By David Post In the 1988 vice presidential debate, Republican Dan Quayle, who was 41 years old, compared ...

Columnists

George B. Jackson: An unpopular King stayed the course

By George B. Jackson In April 1967, Martin Luther King Jr. was fed up with the almost decade ...

Guest columns

Nalini Joseph: Disappointment on your child’s path to greatness

By Nalini Joseph Start talking to your child now about some of the negative emotions he will experience ...

Columnists

Francis Koster: Telemedicine could stop invisible calamity

By Francis Koster We have two health care calamities unfolding before us — one visible, the other not ...

Opinion

Cal Thomas: For Trump, what might have been

“For all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are these, ‘It might have been.’ ” — ...

Opinion

Steven V. Roberts column: ‘Just go, go, go!’

“There has never been a greater betrayal by a president of the United States of his office and ...

Opinion

Byron York column: A crazy impeachment

Democrats started trying to remove President Donald Trump from office before he entered office. Now they are proposing ...

Columnists

Ada Fisher: College education should not be on taxpayers’ dime

By Ada Fisher Any plan to do national forgiveness of student loans is wrong unless those loans had ...

Opinion

Leonard Pitts: ‘Let ’em up easy’?

On April 4, 1865, Abraham Lincoln went to Richmond. With the Civil War all but won, the president ...

Columnists

DG Martin: We got another inoculation

By D.G. Martin We got inoculated last week. Or, I think we did. I hope we did. I ...

Guest columns

Dean Ridings: No game with Google against local news

By Dean Ridings It is no secret that Google has secured a near monopoly in the search and ...

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