4+ day, 12+ hour ago   (372+ words) Twenty-five years. It didn’t dawn on me until one of my colleagues mentioned it in our editorial meeting last week. But, yes, it has been a quarter-century since Sept. 11, 2001, the line in the sand between the old world and the…...

4+ day, 13+ hour ago   (568+ words) GOP candidate for Senate in North Carolina, Michael Whatley, lies are so flagrant that they are easily exposed by cross-checking several independent sources, chief among them the N.C. Prison System administration. Whatley’s lies concern his opponent in the Senate election. Former…...

4+ day, 13+ hour ago   (594+ words) Our newsroom began talking a couple of months ago about pulling together a few stories to mark the 25th year since the 9/11 terrorist attacks that so profoundly changed this country. The memories are discomforting, but that’s often the case with calamitous…...

4+ day, 13+ hour ago   (296+ words) I seriously doubt most Americans view our present political circumstances as I do, but I believe a case could be made that we are reliving the dilemma the colonists faced: the government that held authority over them didn’t represent them....

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (102+ words) Letting Trump be Trump is not an endorsement of his conduct. It is a recognition that political overreach can backfire, and that sometimes the most powerful rebuke is to allow a leader to reveal, through his own actions, why he…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (394+ words) This is a Republican utopia. The President, the Supreme Court and both chambers of Congress are all dominated by Republicans. In North Carolina, the state General Assembly is controlled by Republicans, who have taken many powers away from Democratic governors…...