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Column: Go on now, get!

By William J. L. Parker | April 17

This academic year, my first on The Daily Tar Heel editorial board, saw national turmoil swirl around the concepts of truth and objectivity. The alt-right, ...

Column: To the raccoon I killed, I’m sorry

By Annie Kiyonaga | April 12

Raccoons, I’ve discovered, are actually fairly large animals, especially when they’re serving as impromptu speed bumps.

Column: Letter to the NC GOP

By Cole Stanley | April 11

Dear North Carolina GOP, We heard about the plan you rolled out to give health coverage to 300,000 of the working poor in North Carolina.

Column: Curie and Brontë as BFFs

By Mejs Hasan | April 11

If you study English, people ridicule your “useless” major. If you study science, people snarl when you tell them climate change is real.

Column: Support the DTH even when it's not basketball season

By Jane Wester | April 10

First of all, thank you. To everybody who waited in line for a DTH last week, who came back the next day after we ran out, who brought us exact change ...

Column: We need to save the UNC Center for Civil Rights

By Alexander Peeples | April 9

“Under the Laws of North Carolina and under the resolutions of the Board of Trustees of the University of North Carolina, members of your race are not ...

Column: My iPhone died and so did I

By Benji Schwartz | April 9

My phone shed its mortal coil last week.

Column: Appalachia and the legacy of Sid Hatfield

By Claude Wilson | April 7

I have a vested interest in Appalachia due to my family history there. On my father’s side, I am a descendant of Scotch-Irish settlers who fled from ...

Column: What happens when the words of representatives lose meaning?

By Kate Stotesbery | April 7

Scouting the room for fellow civilians among a sea of naval uniforms, I spotted a table in the back of the mess hall that was dotted with both and took ...

Column: Swaddle me in Carolina Blue

By Alison Krug | April 7

I don’t want to take off my Carolina Blue-colored glasses.

Column: We’re gonna stick around

By Tyler Fleming | April 6

I always had a feeling I would end up in journalism. Growing up, newspapers were always strangely a part of my life even though I didn’t personally ...

Column: We all will die, but live anyhow

By Jesus Gonzalez-Ventura | April 5

All right, so let’s get a little personal. Mi abuela, who is nearing 90, was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease about 10 years ago. Also note that ...

Part of The Daily Tar Heel staff for the 2016-17 school year celebrate the DTH's 124th birthday.

Column: This… is The Daily Tar Heel

By Danny Nett | April 4

Somewhere between fumbling to lay out a map of print distribution and sending tweets and trying to write this column last night, the reality of everything ...

Column: Engaging with art can mean engaging with activism

April 3

Ever since President Trump’s election, issues surrounding race, class and gender have been playing heavily on our national conscience.

Column: National champs of my heart

By Evana Bodiker | April 3

It might be dangerous to put this in print, but here goes: I used to actively avoid UNC basketball. Now that I’ve written it, it feels good to get it ...

Column: The NCAA is still a scam

By Cameron Jernigan | March 31

For the second year in a row, UNC is in the Final Four. I can’t lie. I had my doubts we would make it this far.

Column: Literally just give everyone money

March 31

There are a little over 150 million employed people in the United States: about 3.4 million drive trucks, taxis, buses or delivery vehicles, meaning that ...

Column: What am I doing with my life?

By Annie Kiyonaga | March 30

If there’s such thing as a mid-life crisis, then surely other smaller segments of life contain mid-crises.

Platform: Make The Daily Tar Heel earn your trust

By Tyler Fleming | March 30

Opinion Editor Tyler Fleming is the only candidate running to be the 2017-18 editor-in-chief of The Daily Tar Heel. He is a junior political science and ...

Column: The Darth Vader Institute

By Mejs Hasan | March 28

We all know the southern part of heaven is in North Carolina — but what soft and wondrous summits rim the northern part? I think it must be in Sweden. ...