In June 1985, I stepped behind the massive pulpit in Wait Chapel on the campus of Wake Forest University for the first time and stared, wide-eyed, at its 2,400 seats.
I brought a banana bread over to the mom who just moved in up the street. I told her I meant to bring it over warm, but time had gotten away from me. She smiled and said she does like it warm, so she would heat it up in the microwave. There was only a microwave in her kitchen because a stove…
Last week, North Carolina Sens. Thom Tillis and Richard Burr voted against a cap of $35 a month for the price of insulin for patients with diabetes.
RALEIGH — Because I am an inveterate optimist who likes to think the best of other folks, I’m going to assume for the sake of the following argument that North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper and former governors Jim Hunt, Mike Easley and Bev Perdue sometimes sign documents they’ve not closely read.
To paraphrase Alice, who used the term to describe her adventures in Wonderland, election politics in America is getting “curiouser and curiouser.” And North Carolina has played a starring role.
U.S. Rep. Kathy Manning’s muted responses to the planned facility for unaccompanied immigrant minors in Greensboro have had all the power and resonance of a whisper in a crowded room.
It’s hard to say who’s worse: the woman who needs a man to come to her defense every time someone offends her, or the spineless sap who sprints to her side every time she rings the bell.
U.S. Rep. Kathy Manning’s muted responses to the planned facility for unaccompanied immigrant minors in Greensboro have had all the power and resonance of a whisper in a crowded room.
It’s hard to say who’s worse: the woman who needs a man to come to her defense every time someone offends her, or the spineless sap who sprints to her side every time she rings the bell.
The Corporal came home Friday last, his casket nestled in the baggage-stacked womb of Delta Flight 2738.
Why now? What explains the thunderous revelation that the FBI — doubtless with the approval of those at the highest levels of the Department of Justice — executed a search warrant on Monday at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence? The apparent focus was documents the former president removed …
🎧 The hosts debate whether we are interpreting the Bible correctly, the existence of an afterlife and the effectiveness of prayer.
Among my earliest attempts at fiction was “The Misfit,” a short story about a brilliant, competitive, though anti-social and paranoid college student.
Co-hosted by Pulitzer-Prize winning columnist Michael Paul Williams and Kelli Lemon, After the Monuments captures the zeitgeist of a nation struggling to move from symbolic to substantive change on racial issues.
I’ve been on a two-week vacation in Rome, and one of the great things about being in a foreign country where they have real problems to worry about (including unexpectedly fallen governments) is that the first-world problems of the woke and culturally oppressed don’t make much of an impact.
“Dare we hope?”
A few of the thoughts careening in my head in recent days, at 280 characters a pop:
You may not realize it, but every time you press your car’s gas pedal, you’re in the fast lane with the top “driver” of climate change.
One of the consequences of writing a syndicated column on politics and public policy for more than a quarter of a century is that I am constantly told what I think and why I think it.
On most evenings, I reach into my local Harris Teeter deli counter’s cooler cabinet for my go-to supper item: the grocery chain’s tasty American Hoagie Sandwich, a favorite of mine that feels like a bargain at 480 calories and $5.99.
There’s a line that comes immediately to mind about the latest kerfuffle between Bruce Springsteen and Ticketmaster that has seen tickets for his upcoming tour (which includes a March 25 date at the Greensboro Coliseum) surge as high as $5,000 a pop:
The Associated Press published an article last month designed to skewer and ridicule conspiracy theorists but only those of the “right-wing” and “conservative” variety (“Trust wanes, conspiracy theories rise worldwide,” July 11).
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America, when it comes to the sins of its history, has lacked a "never again" moment.
The conservative “pro-life” movement managed to do something that abortion-rights activists have been trying to do for decades — they have destroyed the stigma around abortion.
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Commentary: Too many people no longer see religion as essential to their understanding of living a good life.
In Washington, things are rarely what they seem. It’s why Congress labels bills with names they think will be more palatable to the public rather than names that would accurately reflect the content of the legislation. Notice how many times over the years the word “civil rights” has appeared…
Back in the day, his FBI file dubbed him “an arrogant Negro.” But then, people often mistook principle for arrogance whenever African Americans insisted on justice.
"He was a gamechanger on and off the court," writes columnist Michael Paul Williams.