GREENSBORO, N.C. -- It's right there on the wall, hectoring David Talbot as he races from one exam room to another. "You want to see the recession? ...
Senate Guru | Posted 05.18.2009 | Politics
I'm speculating that North Carolina's Democratic AG Roy Cooper will announce that he will be a candidate for Senate against freshman Republican backbencher Richard "Bank Run" Burr in 2010.
Yuna Shin | Posted 05.18.2009 | Politics
As the drama of "tea parties" unfolds, some things remain certain. Some Americans just don't like to pay taxes. No matter how the taxes are used, even the word "taxes" is an anathema to some.
AP | EDDIE PELLS | Posted 05.07.2009 | Home
DETROIT — There was a team of destiny out there, all right. It's the North Carolina Tar Heels, and the final chapter of their story was about as...
Sam Panayotovich | Posted 05.07.2009 | Chicago
Great as North Carolina is, there is something special about this bunch from East Lansing.
AP | TOM FOREMAN Jr. and KEVIN MAURER | Posted 04.29.2009 | Home
CARTHAGE, N.C. — A gunman barged into a North Carolina nursing home Sunday morning and started "shooting everything," going room to room in a te...
Sam Panayotovich | Posted 04.18.2009 | Chicago
I'm using my experience covering and playing basketball to predict what might happen over the next 18 days. I'm confident in my selections (but ask me how I feel in two weeks).
AP | EDDIE PELLS | Posted 04.15.2009 | Home
Built for basketball, the Big East is a big hit in March yet again. Louisville, Pittsburgh and Connecticut helped the league that was created decades...
Ari Herzog | Posted 04.10.2009 | Green
The next time you need to do a number two, be sure to stop by the Bronx Zoo, sit on their eco loo, and watch your human poo slide down the toilet OOOH -- without water!
Tom Hayden | Posted 04.03.2009 | World
This is a clear victory for those in the peace movement who supported Obama as the first anti-war candidate with a chance to become president.
Paul Jenkins | Posted 03.24.2009 | Politics
The complicated picture of how America came to vote for its first black president reflects the country's multifarious attitude towards race
Paul Jenkins | Posted 02.25.2009 | Politics
The Republican strategy sounds like the demon child of Mao's Cultural Revolution and Stalin's five-year plans: a criminal intolerance of social differences combined with an outrageously failed economic policy.
Paul Jenkins | Posted 02.10.2009 | Politics
Is it a coincidence that in the world's largest economy, whose military expenditure accounts for half the global total, the most senior posts dealing with money and war are still reserved for men?
AP | MARTHA WAGGONER | Posted 02.06.2009 | Business
RALEIGH, N.C. — Unemployment is up so much in North Carolina that the state's Internet site for benefits crashed twice this week under a rush of...
Paul Jenkins | Posted 01.28.2009 | Politics
Like a restricted country club that would rather die than change, the Republican Party is marginalizing itself for the sake of the white men who run it.
Paul Jenkins | Posted 01.07.2009 | Politics
Beyond its regional concentration, the Republican Party's face is from another time. Indeed, nearly half of the Republican caucus is composed of Southern white men.
Will Bower | Posted 12.24.2008 | Politics
Bobby Jindal has begun the process of pandering to the upcoming, 2012 cycle of the "Iowa/New Hampshire Hostage Crisis."
The News & Observer | Rob Christensen | Posted 12.18.2008 | Politics
At an election night boiler room at Cary's upscale Umstead Hotel, dozens of operatives of Barack Obama's presidential campaign watched as North Caroli...
Chris Rodda | Posted 12.15.2008 | Politics
Yes, folks... there is a statue on display in the U.S. Capitol honoring a white supremacist -- North Carolina Governor Charles Brantley Aycock
Jeannie Ralston | Posted 12.15.2008 | Style
I've found that I've increasingly consulted the electoral map as I've been trying to zero in on our new home.
Dave Winer | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics
Cleaning up some loose ends. Obama won Pennsylvania and New Hampshire, two states that were on McCain's slim path to a win. Once those were decided, ...
The Huffington Post | Posted 12.05.2008 | Politics
The Raleigh News & Observer reports: Earlier today, voters encountered lines at some Triangle precincts, but the waits abated by the afternoon. Earl...
Phillip Martin | Posted 12.05.2008 | Politics
In the U.S., the possibility of an African American president does not presuppose the end to color prejudice any more than the election of Mandela meant an end to inequalities in South Africa.
Megan Pillow | Posted 12.05.2008 | Politics
I am not normally someone who is easily swayed by propaganda or rhetoric, but this sign spoke to me. I decided not to fight it.
Huffington Post | Posted 12.05.2008 | Politics
MSNBC's Norah O'Donnell reports that a GOP strategist emailed her and said Republican Elizabeth Dole is headed for defeat against Democrat Kay Hagan i...
The Washington Post | Posted 05.21.2009 | Politics