D.G. Martin

We need another monument. Maybe, instead of taking down monuments to our past, we should be building new ones. No, I am not suggesting that we fill the courthouse squares with more images of Confederate soldiers. However, I am...

Are you hoping that someone will give you a Bitcoin for Christmas this year? Or do you think it might be a perfect gift for you to give to someone else? It is, you think, a gift that would keep on giving. With its price rising...

You forgot somebody, didn’t you? Somebody who is expecting a present from you? Now, remembering this person, you have no idea what to give. Here are some thoughts for last-minute gifts drawn from my recent reading. At the top of...

What could we North Carolinians learn about ourselves when we sort out the results of the December 12 Alabama special U. S. Senate election? Nothing, you say. We are not like Alabama. They are Deep South. We are mid-South. They...

Stunned. North Carolina lost another monument. It came like a flash. And I am still reeling. Charlie Rose was one of North Carolina’s nationally best-known and most admired people. He was right up there with Michael Jordan,...

Does the life of a Jewish woman who was born, lived, and died in the same house in Goldsboro have lessons for today’s historians? The answer is yes, lots of lessons, which is certainly one of the reasons that the newly published...

A message from Virginia for Democrats: Fight Trump, not each other. North Carolina is not Virginia, and 2017 is not 2018 or 2020. But North Carolina Democrats and Republicans still watched what happened in our neighboring...