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Column: There is no single type of activist

By Gwendolyn Smith | March 21

Lately, I’ve had many conversations about political action. In most of my discussions either I, or the other person I’m speaking to, has said: “I’m ...

Column: Growing up with the Tar Heels

By Sam Schaefer | March 20

Everyone privileged enough to attend UNC for four years does some growing up during that time. One part of growing up for me was coming to terms with ...

Column: Talking about the ‘boring stuff’

By Alex Thomas | March 9

While the hottest political talk continues to be centered around Donald Trump’s every move, my columns have been directed to addressing the policy and ...

Column: My time in Hell (Duke)

By Carlos Collazo | March 8

I opened up the car door after driving those formidable eight miles to Durham and looked up.

Column: Politics have failed us

By Chiraayu Gosrani | March 8

My earliest memory of the U.S. electoral process was the 2000 presidential race between George W. Bush and Al Gore.

Column: This one's for the guys

By Alice Wilder | March 7

Galentine’s Day is the best day of the year: the day women ditch their significant others and hang to celebrate their friendship.

We’re not ‘getting used to it’

By Jaslina Paintal | March 6

Assata Shakur writes: “People can get used to anything; the less you think about your oppression, the more your tolerance for it grows. After a while, ...

Column: White people, this ain't for you

By Jalynn Harris | March 3

Dear White People, I do not write this column with you in mind.

Column: Dealing with daily anxiety

By Evana Bodiker | March 2

I am anxious. I have never been diagnosed with an anxiety disorder, but I know I have one.

Column: Muslims for Sweden’s bodyguard

By Mejs Hasan | March 1

When I was little, I lived in Sweden, but don’t worry! This won’t turn into a tortuous Twilight-inspired love triangle in which I end up liking Sweden ...

Column: There’s value in looking back

By Gwendolyn Smith | February 29

The Catalyst Conference is a weekend-long conference for high school students focused on social justice. I attended the conference as a junior in high ...

Column: No wrong way to grieve

By Rachel Rhodes | February 28

Death is an uncomfortable subject for the living. It’s terrifying, intimate and mysterious all at once, making it a taboo topic of discussion.

Column: A different tobacco road

By Brian Vaughn | February 25

I started smoking cigarettes this summer. This will come as a serious disappointment to my lungs, 5K time and my mother when she reads this column.

Column: Different latitudes, similar attitudes

By Alex Thomas | February 24

North Carolina Republicans have found themselves in a race. Not a race involving Roy Cooper or Hillary Clinton, but a race against the clock.

Column: Believe the Hicks hype

By Pat James | February 23

A little over a month ago, I filled this same space in The Daily Tar Heel with a column explaining why North Carolina forward Isaiah Hicks shouldn’t ...

Column: Inclusion is not our salvation

By Chiraayu Gosrani | February 23

Two weeks ago, my friend Bradley Opere was elected the University’s student body president. A majority of students, especially students of color, ...

Column: The Women’s Center is for you

By Alice Wilder | February 22

There are a couple of places I go on UNC’s campus when the world feels overwhelming and I need some help handling what the day is throwing at me.

Column: When ‘experts’ are ignorant

By Jaslina Paintal | February 21

Last week in the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, my sister and I listened as a physician at the school effectively reduced an entire continent ...

Column: On Black Herstory Month

By Jalynn Harris | February 18

Colonial construction of the Black female body has been bent on her reduction. On the plantation, she is reduced to the utility of her biological sex ...

Column: That wasn’t cool, Kanye

By Evana Bodiker | February 18

We all put our feet into our mouths sometimes.