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While we shouldn’t live in the past, we can certainly learn from it. We are not the first humans to walk the Earth and yet too many, especially the young, suffer from the conceit that […]

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump laid out his economic plan in Detroit on Monday. “I want to jump-start America,” Trump announced, “It can be done. And it won’t even be that hard.” Is it a […]

You’ve probably heard the very old riddle: When is a door not a door? When it’s ajar.An updated version might go like this: When is a ransom not a ransom? When the Obama administration says […]

After years of dodging bullets and muddling through, the European Union has taken one in the chest with Britain’s referendum vote to leave the prosperous continental club. Worse, the bullet cannot be extracted immediately to […]

After years of dodging bullets and muddling through, the European Union has taken one in the chest with Britain’s referendum vote to leave the prosperous continental club. Worse, the bullet cannot be extracted immediately to […]

For political journalists, there’s nothing crueler than two national political conventions, two weeks in a row: Endless hours of note-taking; long, boring speeches by countless politicians; cheap hotels, lousy food and not enough sleep. You […]

On Tuesday in Rocky Mount, Gov. Pat McCrory announced CSX will open a new intermodal terminal, the $272 million Carolina Connector (CCX) project. Construction of the cargo-transfer facility will create 250 to 300 short-term jobs […]

Before the 2008 election, North Carolina’s outcome in the presidential contest was almost always a foregone conclusion. In 2008, the concept of North Carolina as a presidential battleground state was so unfamiliar to the national […]

As a kid, I had high hopes. “I don’t want to be a millionaire,” said my favorite T-shirt. “I just want to live like one.” That’s my impression of autocrat-in-progress Donald J. Trump. He doesn’t […]

At the University of Pennsylvania’s recent commencement ceremony, Lin-Manuel Miranda, the playwright of Broadway’s award-winning musical, Hamilton, gave a passionate speech challenging Donald Trump’s anti-immigrant rhetoric. Miranda, the son of a Puerto Rican immigrant and […]