There is a secret about North Carolina’s early colonial days, something even more disturbing and horrifying than traditional slavery.
The Tuscarora War’s dirty secret
D.G. Martin
Candidates are lining up to run in 2020 and we’ve heard those running on a more liberal or “progressive” platform, as well as those espousing …
The request was for me to talk to an audience about how to conduct civil, meaningful and honest discussions among people with different faiths…
Last week, the world watched as President Donald Trump delivered his second State of the Union Address. In his speech, the President highlight…
RALEIGH — Friar Laurence has the best of intentions. But in William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, the friar’s well-intended interventions do…
Would you like to know why U.S. sanctions against companies owned by Russian billionaire and businessman Oleg Deripaska are being lifted?
RALEIGH — If the most important factor determining the welfare of workers is the growth rate of the economy, that has policy implications that…
The proposed DMV move brings to mind one of the old Three Stooges comedies, the one where one of the zany trio says, “I’ve cut this board thre…
Why would anybody want to spend months walking from the South Carolina coast, up through the Piedmont to present-day Charlotte, and then back …
Do you remember the TV game show Family Feud? It was good fun as one family competes with another for cash prizes, but we all know that real l…
Do you remember the important North Carolina connection to “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn,” one of America’s most loved novels?
8 things we learned in the 9th District hearings
With a clear-eyed perspective on my place in politics (I don’t have one) this column is intended to give advice to the Democrat Party as it at…
We all share the same goal to end gun violence in this country. But in the course of this debate, House Democrats say they want to “do somethi…
How did a close election in the Ninth Congressional District of North Carolina lead to this column?
Here’s a good news-bad news story that needs a happy ending. The good news is that as of January our state’s unemployment rate was 3.6 percent…
From the opening moments of Apollo 11, as a missile crawler-transporter is delivering a Saturn rocket to its launch pad, viewers know that som…
RALEIGH — In the twilight of his political career, Ronald Reagan made the media rounds to discuss his administration, legacy, and unfinished b…
Carol Folt’s swift departure from the chancellorship of UNC-Chapel Hill a few weeks ago and her just as swift hiring as the president of the U…
Chapel Hill is still stunned.
A couple of weeks ago I shared with readers a list of famous North Carolinians published in the 2019 “The World Almanac and Book of Facts.”
While I have been traveling up and down North Carolina’s roads in search of local eateries, UNC Law School professor Gene Nichol has been trav…
What really happened to Virginia Dare, the first child of English parents born in the New World? The same Virginia Dare whom I suggested recen…
One of my favorite things about the holiday season is the arrival of “The World Almanac and Book of Facts.”
What is a good book I can give a friend?
“The real mystery after half a century,” Wyndham Robertson says, “is why life at the top of large American corporations still seems so overwhe…
“There should be an historic plaque in Chapel Hill honoring George Bush.”
“Because he was a traitor and a pirate,” East Carolina University professor and leading North Carolina public historian, Larry Tise, explained…
What did North Carolina Democrats learn from the elections earlier this month?
Who will succeed Margaret Spellings as president of the UNC System?
Can’t you say anything good about President Donald Trump?
Why would I ask you to read from a column I wrote almost 30 years ago?
When H. G. Jones died on October 14, our state lost a key connection to its history as well as a prime and positive, but all too rare, example…
Besides circulation the most complaints I get is about the editorial page. So today’s Friday Five is about questions and complaints about poli…
I am looking for iconic North Carolina eateries for a new book.
Last month’s flooding from Hurricane Florence brought such bad news to New Bern and its neighboring cities, towns and communities.
“You’d better be careful,” my wonderful seventh grade teacher, Miss Winifred Potts, preached to my class more than 65 years ago.
Like all North Carolinians I am worrying about the flooding causing heart-rending damage throughout our state following Hurricane Florence.
How did Carrboro writer and teacher Georgann Eubanks become the leader of the North Carolina Literary and Historical Association?
Anna Beer could cost North Carolina taxpayers millions of dollars.
He is like the houseguest who stays too long, and then when he’s finally gone, you miss him a little bit.
“This may be the last time we get together like this.”
The Great American Read, a PBS series, is in the process of selecting America’s best-loved novel.
I thought I was so smart back in 2016 when I wrote that Democrats, who were confident they would defeat Donald Trump, should be pulling for hi…
