It may or may not be apocryphal, but there is an infamous World War II-era quote attributed to Russian dictator Josef Stalin in which he responded to the suggestion that the leader of the Catholic …
Around the U.S. this November, voters will decide a number of tax questions. In California, it's "wealth tax" on billionaires. In mine, it's an increase in the "homestead exemption," the amount of …
As a passionate aficionado of history, philosophy, and classical civilization — the foreign language I took in college was Ancient Greek — I wince when I read about shrinking departments and …
To the Editor: I would like to make several points concerning the recent wave of data center proposals in Richmond County in an hope to help residents understand the difference …
Our public mental health system has struggled mightily to adequately serve the people of North Carolina. A cornerstone of that system is our three state hospitals. Legislatively-mandated public …
In nine years, Social Security will celebrate its 100th birthday. An estimated 69 million people receive monthly Social Security checks. Full disclosure: I am one of them. Of course, people can …
Did you know that the voters of San Francisco will decide this fall whether the city will set up its own municipal bank? Or that the state of Illinois is setting up a state-funded program of food aid …
It would be silly to claim that there aren’t a lot of things in the modern world about which to be deeply concerned or even, at times, fearful. There’s the ongoing global environmental …
"Attorney General James Uthmeier is putting the Roman Catholic Church on notice," the Orlando Sentinel reports. "[I]f church officials take taxpayer funded vouchers for their schools, they should …
I feel like I’m reliving my youth. It’s not a midlife crisis, I promise. Statistically speaking, I missed that opportunity many years ago. And neither flashy cars nor splashy parties have been or …
We have been ambushed. We should be talking about the dangerous, destabilizing things being done to this country. We should be talking about the data centers spreading across the …
The tragedies at Myers Park High School have prompted necessary conversations across Charlotte about youth mental health and what more can be done to support young people before they …
"Thousands of people collaborated to build and defend a global monetary network with no CEO, no president, and no master," Max Borders says of Bitcoin. "Nobody gave them permission, because nobody …
If formal surveys and social-media tracking offer useful signals — flawed as they may be, they’re superior to motivated reasoning or rank speculation — affordability tops the priority list for …
Immigration of foreign-born individuals moving to the U.S. has sparked serious debates about the pros and cons of the movement. Of particular concern has been the large number of immigrants who …
Don’t you find it laughable that the ones screaming the loudest about election integrity are the ones seemingly doing their best to interfere with it? North Carolina Republicans have taken up …
To say that 21 st Century humanity finds itself in a time of dire and unprecedented environmental crisis is an increasingly obvious and undeniable fact. Thanks to climate change, warming and …
"I want to stop American aid," Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on June 30. "It's like welfare; I don't want it." Usually, Netanyahu gets anything he demands from Uncle Sugar. But on …
In war, alliances often prove decisive. But as Sun Tzu observed nearly 2,500 years ago, allies can often be more trouble than they are worth. “We cannot enter into alliance with neighboring …
On June 9, Graham Platner won the Democratic Party's nomination for U.S. Senate from Maine with 72.1% of the primary vote. On July 10, Platner withdrew from the race, presumably due to popular demand …