In 2012, Marcus Robinson, a North Carolina death row inmate, successfully used a 2009 law under the Racial Justice Act to prove that the jury selection process at his trial was influenced on the basis...

Guest worker programs have proved to be incredibly contentious elements to the national debate over immigration. The guest worker issue has a particular relevance for North Carolina, given that the...

It didn’t take Jim Fox long to be welcomed to his new home. Fox, who was hired as Appalachian State’s 16th men’s head basketball coach April 8, threw out the first pitch of the university’s...

Political discourse, often including opinion writing, naturally has polarizing attributes that can place senders and receivers on opposing ends of an ideological spectrum. Admittedly, the difficulty...

The conversation over sexual assault and its handling by universities has become a national topic, and that has come up in the University of North Carolina system as well several times in the last few...

Cartoon by Bridget Mundy, Editorial Cartoonist

Cartoon by Andrew Cox, Editorial Cartoonist

The University of Connecticut has won the NCAA championship, and you don’t have a perfect bracket. But don’t feel bad, because no one does. Warren Buffett bet one billion dollars from his own...

North Carolina has become part of a new and disturbing nationwide trend - increased heroin usage and overdose. In 2012, 147 people died of heroin usage, a dramatic increase from the average of approximately...

As the competitive nature of business and education continue to evolve at a global level, the installation of the new Common Core State Standards serves as the driving force behind keeping the U.S. competitive. CCSS...

Cartoon by Andrew Cox, Editorial Cartoonist