Graceland is one of the top five American homes visited each year. Elvis Pressley died there in 1977. Since then, the entertainment company wh…
With much of corporate America vowing to withhold donations to Republican insurrectionists, party leaders have a choice to make. The Trump cul…
A company some years ago moved its personnel into a new location, a multistory office building. While the facility was more than adequate for …
Unlike most years, I decided to start 2021 with a few resolutions that I hope will make me a better husband, father and member of the dude den…
Opinion: For decades we have told our youth to “stay true to yourself” and “stick up for what you believe,” as if there were some virtue in st…
Episode 5: We also discuss whether the Republican Party would be in a stronger place today had Hillary Clinton defeated Donald Trump in 2016.
If the last five years in American politics have taught us one thing, it is that we can all use a refresher course in civics. The events of Ja…
So, President Donald Trump has been booted off Twitter, as of now forever. Facebook also gave him the heave-ho. Apple and Google, meanwhile, h…
Without grace, our public discourse will continue to suffer.
RALEIGH — It was the summer of 1987 when I first stepped inside the U.S. Capitol to work instead of visit.
After the mind-blowing civil unrest in America of 2020, culminating in an armed invasion of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 by pro-Trump rioters, i…
We got inoculated last week.
Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021, is a date which will live in infamy, along with Sept. 11, 2001, Nov. 22, 1963, and Dec. 7, 1941.
After three years and 50 weeks of meekly deferring to President Donald Trump, Vice President Mike Pence finally ran out of patience Tuesday. T…
So what now?
While watching the incredible scenes from the U.S. Capitol this week, it was hard not to think about Josh. No, not Josh Hawley. Josh Williams.
You might have seen the photo by now. Of all the disturbing images of Wednesday’s insurrection, this one lingers.
Editor's note: I was too busy hunkering down and writing about plague and insurrection to conjure up anything new and semiamusing this week. H…
We’ve never seen the likes of it before in American history.
President Donald Trump incited his followers to “Fight for Trump” at a rally Wednesday morning, and they took him at his word.
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I have hope for 2021, but it’s off to a grim beginning.
I don't mind admitting that I could really go for a good fistfight just now.
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It is the job of the film critic to sniff at new movies. And so, it was expected that reviewers would drag "Wonder Woman 1984" onto the operat…
One of North Carolina’s important public intellectuals has stepped down.
A few weeks ago, I wrote a column about Bob Dylan selling the rights to his entire songwriting catalog to Universal Music Publishing Group for…
The story of Christmas doesn’t begin with a stable in the small town of Bethlehem 8 miles south of Jerusalem. It doesn’t start with a long jou…