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Borders: an illustrated editorial

By Savannah Faircloth and Editorial Board | February 28

Opinion: Theory is essential to a liberal arts education

By Editorial Board | February 28

Within the social science and humanities, theory plays an important role in explaining complex social, political, economic, and artistic phenomena without ...

Opinion: Don't stop reading after college

By Editorial Board | February 27

Being literate can be defined two ways. Of course, being able to read is the basic definition of literacy. But literate also means having a knowledge ...

Opinion: Internship searches shouldn’t be this stressful

By Editorial Board | February 27

Tis the season to figure out what you’re doing this summer. Depending on your field, you might have already applied and heard back from several internships. ...

Opinion: Gene-editing is here. How should it be used?

By Editorial Board | February 27

On Feb. 14, the National Academies of Sciences and the National Academy of Medicine released a report recommending that heritable gene-editing trials ...

Opinion: Partisanship shouldn’t affect academic research

By Editorial Board | February 23

With the availability of academic funding drying up, academics are increasingly confronted with the difficult task of navigating funding sources.

Opinion: A new regional transport plan is up for approval

By Editorial Board | February 23

Last week the Durham-Chapel Hill-Carrboro Metropolitan Planning Organization opened itself up to public input at an open house regarding their Comprehensive ...

Opinion: Consider spending your money to help organizations here

By Editorial Board | February 23

Donations give organizations the financial resources to survive and operate. While giving money should never be the only form of activism one takes, it ...

Opinion: We generally love college, but not at this moment

By Editorial Board | February 23

“You can be anything you want to be when you grow up,” we declare to children as they enter kindergarten.

Opinion: Businesses shouldn’t hesitate to take a stance

By Editorial Board | February 22

On Feb. 15, Merritt’s Store and Grill stood in solidarity with their Hispanic staff by announcing on Facebook that they would close the restaurant so ...

Opinion: Let’s take discourse about HB2 beyond just money

By Editorial Board | February 22

After listening to Gov. Roy Cooper’s recent press conference in which he announced a compromise to repeal House Bill 2, you would think money is all ...

Local bar, He's Not Here, will be closing for three weeks.

Opinion: Consider serving young adults alcohol — one drink at a time

By Editorial Board | February 20

Drinking is a big part of social culture on college campuses. More broadly, drinking is a longstanding and relatively inelastic part of American culture, ...

Students gather around the Old Well to enjoy the snow late Tuesday night.

Opinion: The issues first-years need to know about

By Editorial Board | February 20

First-years, we know it can be difficult to be aware of exactly which issues to keep up with in terms of news when you arrive on campus.

The UNC football team goes undefeated in Kenan Stadium for the 2015 season after their win against Miami on Saturday afternoon.

Opinion: We're watching you, CUAB

By Editorial Board | February 20

This year, we have been relatively silent about our thoughts on the activities of the Carolina Union Activities Board. We think, so far, they’ve been ...

Opinion: The ban on weed is unrealistic and harmful

By Editorial Board | February 19

When alcohol was banned by the 18th Amendment, launching the prohibition era, drinking culture went underground. The roaring ‘20s became synonymous ...

Opinion: Americans are angry at the person in your mirror

By Editorial Board | February 16

If the first Tuesday of Nov. 2016 was in fact a change election, an angry demand for help by a plurality and repudiation of the standing way of doing ...

Viewpoints: The right to free speech is not the right to be heard

By Emily Yue | February 15

UC Berkeley had already ruled that the Berkeley College Republicans were well within their rights to host Breitbart editor Milo Yiannopoulos — a decision ...

Viewpoints: Err on the side of freedom, rather than censorship

By Jonathan Núñez | February 15

Our disagreement is really about what free speech is and what its limits are. On one side, you have an alt-right figure whose views are pretty extreme. ...

Opinion: Yale, now us — the fight against white supremacy continues

By Editorial Board | February 14

As has become tradition when fellow universities diminish the role of pro-slavery alumni, this board would like to thank the administrators at Yale University ...

Opinion: Our representatives are going on break. Reach out to them.

By Editorial Board | February 14

With President Trump in the news every day, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed. But that doesn’t mean there’s nothing we can do.