Carter Wrenn
Gary Pearce
The killing of Charlie Kirk at Utah Valley University – and now the reaction, rhetoric and threats of retribution – make you tremble for our country. But the Q&A session that Carter and I had the afternoon before at N.C. State University gave me hope. We were at NCSU’s Society for Politics, Economics & the…
The future’s a mystery. But it’s also true history repeats itself. So when we come to a fork in the road the past – by shedding light on old mistakes – can help us choose the road to take. At the end of ‘The Roaring Twenties’ my grandmother married – as a young girl she’d…
My friend Pat is still vigorous and trail-hiking at age 83, but he’s unsparing about aging. “You may not be old when you’re in your 70s,” he said over lunch, “but when you’re in your 80s, you’re old.” Donald Trump is pushing 80, and showing it. He’s doing what he accused President Biden of doing:…
Seldom agreeing, grasping for power, our two political parties have fought for years. Back in Reagan days, Democrats said we needed more government to fix problems. Republicans, like Reagan, shot back government was the problem. Still, as Reagan and Tip O’Neill battled, they shared common values. Both respected that Americans had the right to disagree…
Hitler couldn’t destroy America. The Soviet Union couldn’t either. But Trump’s warning us one federal court has the power to destroy us. Of course, he was angry the court ruled against him. And he was posturing to get clicks on social media. But he left one question unanswered. Here’s what happened: Using what he calls…
Our young waitress at dinner had a strong accent, and my wife asked where she’s from. “Ukraine,” she said. She’s been here a year. She’d lived near Poland, away from the fighting. On my walk the next morning, I crossed paths with a grandmotherly woman who’s always pushing a small child in a stroller around…
The other day I read Big Tech Algorithms – by feeding us what we crave to see, hear, believe – are warping our character. There’s probably some truth in that but tale spinning goes all the way back to the Serpent tempting Eve in the Garden of Eden – it’s an old bone-deep sin. Parents…
Fall is in the air, college football is back and I’ll be at Carter-Finley Stadium, pulling for the Wolfpack. In a couple of months, I’ll be in the Lenovo Center (or whatever it’s named now) hoping Will Wade can restore our basketball glory in the era of NIL (“Now It’s Legal”). I’ll learn the players’…
If the Democratic Party were a hospital patient, every monitor would be blaring emergency alarms. The party is bleeding voter registrations – nationally and in North Carolina. After the 2020 election, there were over 373,000 more registered Democrats than Republicans (2,620,162 to 2,246,540) in North Carolina. Today, there are just over 15,800 more registered Democrats…
How do you get your news? Our statewide poll asked North Carolina voters what their primary…
Thom Tillis and Phil Berger fed the MAGA alligator. Then it ate them. Thomas Mills wrote…
Exactly 80 years ago, in 1946, Republicans took control of Congress with a simple message: “Had…