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Column: Environmental injustice in North Carolina is often racial injustice too

By Hailey Rodriguez | February 4

"No matter where you look in the world, marginalized and low-income communities are disproportionately affected by environmental hazards."

Column: Black people built our university. UNC must build to remember them.

By Savannah Clay | February 4

"We cannot begin to tell the history of our university without properly memorializing and monumentalizing the Black people who built and sustained this ...

Column: For UNC, institutional neutrality is complicity with Trump and ICE

By Maggie Mead | February 3

"If a student is admitted to UNC, which purports to prize meritocracy and institutional neutrality above all, their deportation would be not only an inexcusable ...

Column: New obesity guidelines give a needed change to our relationship with weight

By Anna Gage | February 2

"Excessive weight is not always a problem in itself; it can simply be a gateway to a host of other issues. So why unnecessarily treat individuals before ...

Column: You aren't what you eat, but you are what you speak

By Arya Mehta | January 31

"Certain cuisines are only seen as generally palatable because they have a correlation with international power and racial superiority — the menu is ...

Column: The fragility of TikTok reveals the importance of physical media

By Rachel Moody | January 28

"The internet cannot replicate the egalitarian act of thumbing through a stack of randomized CDs, records, books or DVDs and selecting one with no idea ...

Column: Stories about resistance against fascism are everywhere. Why don't we believe them?

By Harry Black | January 27

"Any good movie has something to say. It’s up to the viewer to look past artificial aesthetics and action sequences to garner such a message."

Column: Alcohol is inextricably tied to cancer, but it's inextricably tied to college students too

By Harry Black | January 27

"Moderate drinking may have negative consequences on our health, but so too does a lack of social connection."

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Column: Pedestrian cities are the future. Carrboro is working toward that.

By Cooper Hall | January 27

"This new space could exemplify how we think about designing our towns and cities in a way that is directly beneficial to residents."

Column: Politicians, pick one: TikTok or universal data privacy

By Cogan McMichaels | January 23

"The issue here is barely about national security or privacy, but rather about geopolitical posturing and leverage."

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Column: Feeling burnt out by your major? Try a CLE and learn for fun.

By Natalie McCarthy | January 20

"When you feel like CLEs are just another graduation requirement that eat up your valuable time, remember that they are also a great tool for exercising ...

Column: LA wildfires are sparking a discussion on prison labor. It's long overdue.

By Mary Blake Nobles | January 20

"Prison labor that is not properly compensated, whether that is rescuing a community from a fire or manufacturing goods in a factory, should be seen and ...

Column: The University claims to meet full financial aid. Can it really say that?

By Delaney Broderick | January 20

"Meeting full financial need is not a fluctuating cycle of reducing grants and extending loans. Either meet students 100 percent as you claim, or find ...

Column: A eulogy to the Earth, signed by politicians and corporations

By Cooper Hall | January 19

"So, if it feels like you are fighting a losing battle every time you carry a reusable bag into the grocery store, it’s because you are, and, right ...

Column: Please stop setting New Year's resolutions you won’t achieve

By Cogan McMichaels | January 15

"We need to be reasonable with ourselves and accept that failure is inevitable when we set overly-ambitious resolutions. But I reckon the real problem ...

Column: Meta indicates the future of online accountability is bleak

By Esha Singaraju | January 14

"The rollback of fact-checking sends a clear message: moderation policies are no longer guided by ethical standards but instead serve to appease powerful ...

Column: Elon Musk may soon control your money, and your mind

By Arya Mehta | January 13

"By convincing people to vote for someone who will catalyze late capitalism, X has become intrinsically tied to the government, letting its owner be spoon-fed ...

Column: Don't purge opinion writing from newspapers

By Sydney Baker | January 13

"So why would newspapers bother with opinion sections when we no longer live in an age where people have few options for authoritative viewpoints?"

Column: Carrboro vs. Duke Energy sets an important precedent for the climate change battle

By Maggie Mead | January 13

"This lawsuit is therefore extremely important in establishing a framework for legal action against the biggest perpetrators of climate change, placing ...

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Column: For once, Ramaswamy is right. ‘Normalcy’ doesn’t cut it.

By Madelyn Rowley | January 9

"We have hope to escape our tunnel of mediocrity only if we establish education to be something more than just a means to an end."