Column: The Theater of Security Administration

As recently as 2015, the TSA failed to detect smuggled weapons during tests 95% of the time. 

Column: Folt and small government

"Powerful and accountable local government can be affected by the desires of the citizens much more quickly than a lumbering federal bureaucracy might ...

Column: Don't worry, we can make it worse

"So, let’s be the most awful, let’s try and outdo ourselves and elect someone even more unqualified, even less presidential come 2020."

Column: UNC administration should learn from Charlie Scott

Listen to Charles Scott, UNC's first Black scholarship athlete.

Column: Answer with confidence

Column: The right to openmindedness

Yes, we are granted freedom of speech, but would it benefit us more if we instead chose to listen?

Column: The dominant factor in UNC's affirmative action policy

 Underrepresented students who have a viable claim to a discrimination suit are the only ones with standing to benefit from affirmative action under ...

Column: Cure toxic masculinity by going vegan?

Recently, PETA falsely claimed that toxic masculinity could be ended by going vegan and that male vegetarians last longer in bed. 

Column: Remember and take ownership of our history

"If you say you love your community, take ownership and respect the history of that space. Only then can we heal and move forward, together."

Column: Why aren't we having children?

In the past decade, fertility rates in the United States have dropped dramatically. Young adults, specifically college graduates, experienced the greatest ...

Column: I am screaming

Oh. My. God. I am screaming. I am SCREAMING!

Guest Column: #Strikedownsam worked and here's why

Sharon P. Holland, Townsend Ludington Distinguished Endowed term professor in American Studies, writes about the TA grading strike at the end of last ...

Column: Why I love the egg and you should too

"So if the egg phenomenon says anything about what humanity is really like, deep down under all our social restrictions, it’s that we have a capacity ...

Guest Column: UNC, I just can't quit you

Read what alumna and former Assistant Dean of Students Melinda Manning has to say about her feelings on the current state of UNC. 

Column: Am I tidy?

Maybe senior year is far more about confronting grief than sparking joy. Maybe letting go does not require abandoning sentimentality. Maybe the most sentimental ...

Column: Close 'open secrets'

The entertainment industry has been complicit in its lack of reporting sexual abusers, and the situation with R. Kelly is no exception. 

Column: My RA was unjustly fired

My RA was one of my closest friends on campus. UNC feels like less of a home for me without him on my floor. I believed in UNC’s commitment to my First-Year ...

Column: Conservatives, stop complaining

“It is really liberal,” many of them told me. “There aren’t very many other Christians there.” 

Column: Politicians in the internet age

"Eventually, we will have to seriously answer the question of how the internet changes what we expect from our public servants."