Columns

Close friendships and lifelong loyalty: these are good things, aren’t they? Don’t we admire the way some childhood friends look out for each other all their lives? And don’t the close bonds that develop among participants in...

Who was North Carolina’s greatest civil-rights hero? Hundreds, even thousands, of North Carolinians in the 1960’s can claim hero status. But their quest for justice and equality were inspired by men and women who...

I know how Obama feels. Or in the words of the acknowledged champion debater and explainer, Bill Clinton, “I feel his pain.” Why and how can I make such a claim? Because I was a political candidate who had the opportunity to...