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Column: North Carolina cannot afford to lose access to NOAA

By Esha Singaraju | March 31

"With over 3,000 miles of shoreline, N.C. regularly faces hurricanes, coastal erosion and inland flooding. When disaster looms, NOAA’s timely warnings ...

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Column: Academia is nonpartisan — it's up to all of us to defend it against fascism

By Nakai Moore | March 31

"The classroom — intended to be a space for dialogue and critical engagement — has become a battleground in the administration’s broader effort ...

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Column: Despite Sweet 16 loss, UNC women's basketball's season represents strides

By Cade Shoemaker | March 29

Sometimes, it's easy to turn the page after a season ends, but UNC's past season reflects a shift closer to what the program wants to become.

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Column: Student protesters shouldn’t be more committed to fighting fascism than our elected officials

By Hailie Davidson | March 28

"Their performative concern for our descent into fascism has no teeth or stakes and is concerned primarily with the optics rather than the results."

Column: Let's redefine what it means to be apolitical

By Anna Gage | March 27

"I understand there are fears of inaction with students temporarily remaining ideologically neutral. But the issues that arise with some lost action are ...

Column: The war on science and funding cuts at UNC are gutting innovation and progress

By Hailey Rodriguez | March 26

"It especially comes as a shock and cause for concern that science programs are now being targeted when more often than not it’s the humanities that ...

Column: If we really want to Make America Healthy Again, we should guarantee food access

By Owen Baxter | March 25

"There is no reason, in the richest nation in the world, that people should go hungry."

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Column: My family lived through dictatorship. The detention of Mahmoud Khalil is déjà vu.

By Elisa Troncoso | March 24

"The brutal legacy of my family’s homeland tells us all that extralegal detentions such as these are only the prelude to much greater forms of violence ...

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Column: Students cherish dance on campus while the University disrespects it

By Gray Hamby | March 24

"If the University cannot provide an academic opportunity to explore dance, adequate support for student extracurricular groups trying to fill that hole ...

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Column: Why modern food media doesn't taste the same

By Ryan Pham | March 24

"This loss of prominence of chefs like Bourdain and Fieri affects not just food journalism, culinary storytelling and cuisine exploration but something ...

Column: To keep North Carolina red, Republicans should reject protectionism

By Quin Edelin | March 23

"If he delivers on a pro-growth agenda with rising pay and falling inflation, the tide of economic optimism will lift the GOP’s electoral prospects, ...

Satire: UNC creates DERP to increase University efficiency

By Maggie Mead | March 23

"DERP has taken immediate action to minimize UNC’s spending, starting with the most inefficient thing of all: learning."

Column: Our campus needs better ways to debate

By Jaden Miller | March 23

"If we are able to create a paradigm of open understanding through whatever method possible, we could set our university and country back on a path of ...

Column: Federal spending cuts puts access to school lunches in jeopardy

By Katie Littlejohn | March 21

"A decline in funding of this magnitude will force these committees to cut or rollback these programs, which would be devastating to many, especially ...

Column: The kids are not all right: can we hustle our way out of a recession?

By Salma Mourad | March 20

"As Generation Z navigates an increasingly absurd world — one of slashed public sector jobs, frozen federal funding and a looming recession — trying ...

Column: Nonchalance spells the slow death of freedom

By Arya Mehta | March 20

"Where is your whimsy? Where is your passion?"

Sports editors review Town Hall Grill's basketball player themed dishes

By Matthew Maynard , Olivia Paul , Emma Moon and Caroline Wills | March 19

The Daily Tar Heel's sports desk editing team traveled to The Town Hall Grill in Chapel Hill on Monday to try out menu items named after UNC men's ...

Column: Gather ‘round the dinner table, it’s time to talk about UNC’s dining system

By Cooper Hall | March 18

"Students shouldn’t have to worry about having enough time to eat in a dining hall if they only have a 30-minute lunch break or not being able to find ...

Column: How to be a UNC dining hall connoisseur

By Keya Mahajan | March 18

"Think back to when you first stepped into a UNC dining hall. Recall the excitement, the sensory overload and the inherent giddiness sparked by the multitude ...

Column: Reviewing my 21st birthday Franklin Street bar crawl

By Emma Moon | March 18

"It was almost time for my first birthday bar crawl, time to search for all the free birthday drinks I could find and purchase some I had longed for in ...