While mowing the front yard, I discovered what may be a portal to another dimension.
Fewer Americans are attending traditional church services. Fewer are attending Catholic schools, too.
Tree huggers, are you contemplating a Zoom meeting with Mr. Elm instead?
Joe Biden’s surprisingly progressive presidency looks more like Franklin D. Roosevelt and Lyndon B. Johnson than his more recent Democratic pr…
Will someone please lend President Biden a history book?
Republicans and corporate America have been conjoined for so long that any breach in the bond is almost impossible to imagine. Yet we’re seein…
Did you ever have a week when it felt like something was missing, but you didn’t quite know what it was?
RALEIGH — North Carolina state government is headed into the 2021-22 fiscal year with nearly $5 billion in unanticipated revenue and unencumbe…
As parents of three teenage daughters, my wife and I expend a lot of our leisure time managing other people’s laundry. Because our children ar…
Columnist Scott Hollifield highlights the latest batch of animals in the news.
Did I ever tell you about my late Uncle Vernon and the time his slanderous lies about a respected business got unceremoniously debunked?
Opinion: Why can’t those who own guns and know the most about them take responsibility for ensuring they're used safely and without malicious intent?
Episode 11: Scott Rada and Richard Kyte talk about how their different life experiences frame how they each look at firearm safety. Later, the…
The Great Spring Awakening continues.
Who is responsible for last month’s jam up in the Suez Canal?
I am so glad the whole white supremacy and gun nut narrative is over, so we can get back to the one about voter suppression. Those horrific sh…
RALEIGH — It’s hard not to play along when children come up with cute untruths.
As a Black conservative Republican, Mark Robinson isn’t North Carolina’s traditional lieutenant governor. But he’s squarely in the tradition o…
What welcome words these were, from a newly elected president: “We’re going to rebuild our infrastructure … our highways bridges, tunnels, air…
This is almost too easy but I can’t resist. I was actually going to write a column about President Biden’s dog, Major, biting people; also amo…
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Standing up, kneeling down or sitting out for what you believe isn’t always easy. Athletes whose talent has thrust them into the public spotli…
I have learned in my life that the small things are the ones that get you down.
In the afterlife of art and literature, in the sweet by and by, I imagine retired Texas Ranger Gus McRae on the porch of the celestial ranch h…
My wife and I would never have met, except that her family fled a densely populated state when she was 11.
Springtime has arrived in Washington.
Where do we go next? What do we do now?
He may not be the fastest president on his feet we’ve ever had.
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