Monday marks the first day of classes at UNC, and I’m thinking of the freshmen in particular. Forget butterflies: the excitement and nerves in my belly on my first day were like a Molotov cocktail.
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This week’s show is an exploration of the lives of handicapped people. Jennifer Chassman Browne is the guest and she talks about her new book ‘See Us, Know Us; Profiles of Disability.’
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Jean Bolduc’s recent Chapelboro column, “It’s Science,” dismisses the Senate investigation of Dr. Anthony Fauci as a “ridiculous political exercise” centered on a “favorite conspiracy topic.”
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Contemporary campaigns against the influence of foreign people and ideas thus revive political fears from earlier times, but they also extend these fears into the twenty-first-century exchanges of international organizations, global commerce, transnational travel, and cross-cultural research at modern universities. The new Isolationism, in short, is using old fears to undermine the future influence and social-intellectual power of the United States.
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The 2026 Hopscotch Music Festival lineup angered some fans. Maisie Moylan shares why she agrees, but still believes a fun festival can be had.
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The Michael Whatley campaign has attacked Roy Cooper with a barrage of harsh, provocative ads criticizing the governor for complying with a court order forcing him to release 3,500 inmates from prison.
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An index fund does not try to identify the next great company or predict which part of the market will perform best. Instead, it owns a broad group of investments designed to track a market index, such as the S&P 500.
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This Just In—We have some big political talent coming onto the national stage. It’s no wonder the GOP is thrashing about.
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There’s a gradual entry to the neighborhood pool where the littlest kids play, and I like to stand in the water up to my shins and cool off, even though I suspect someone is peeing in close proximity.
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On his way to the 2025 Atlantic Coast Conference football championship, Duke’s first outright league title on the gridiron since 1962, coach Manny Diaz talked about player retention as one of the bedrocks of the Blue Devils’ program.
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