Two people who wanted to be something else have grabbed our attention recently: Rachel Dolezal, the former NAACP chapter president in Spokane, Wash., and Caitlyn (formerly Bruce) Jenner, the 1976 Olympic decathlon champion....
Read MoreI am traveling this week, so this is a short column about an issue I have been pondering of late. Those of us who report on science in public fora such as this, are motivated by the hope that our efforts will have an impact, at...
Read MoreThis is Lew Margolis. Recently, I participated in the faculty procession to honor the more than 500 graduates of the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health. It is gratifying to ponder the contributions that our faculty and...
Read More“I am a United States Army general, and I lost the Global War on Terrorism.” These are the opening lines of retired U.S. Army Lt. Gen. Daniel P. Bolger’s book, “Why We Lost: A General’s Inside Account of the Iraq and Afghanistan...
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This is Rabbi Jen Feldman. The School Board adopted calendars for 2015/2016 and 2016/2017 that...
Read MoreLet’s see how well you are keeping up with recent books by North Carolina authors. See how many new books and authors you can identify from the following clues. Two “non-poetry” books by a former North Carolina poet laureate. A...
Read MoreLate the other night, I saw a TV commercial for Zostavax®, the vaccine for shingles. It opened with a picture of a man’s stomach emblazoned with large and grotesque pustules, allegedly from shingles. (The make-up crew for the...
Read MoreWhat do Tom Brady, the superstar quarterback of the New England Patriots, and UNC have in common? Both have broken the rules of the game. It seems pretty clear that Brady knowingly colluded to deflate footballs prior to the AFC...
Read MoreThis is Matt Bailey. When we talk about affordable housing, we often assume we’re talking specifically about homes for residents with low incomes. Chapel Hill definitely has an affordable housing crisis by that standard. ...
Read MoreHe was the most famous North Carolinian in the country, for a moment back in the late 1950s and 1960s. Today, you rarely hear his name. My children, who grew up in the 1970s a few blocks from where Harry Golden worked, do not...
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