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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.

Opinion: Reimagining familial relations

By Editorial Board | February 13

In honor of Valentine’s Day, this board chose to take a moment to share our thoughts on the subject of marriage — not love, which we enthusiastically ...

The Student Recreation Center is collecting water to be donated to Flint, Michigan.

Opinion: Water we to do?

By Editorial Board | February 13

It’s a week later and we’ve all survived the #watercrisis2017.

Opinion: What’s up with the Board of Elections?

By Editorial Board | February 13

As a fellow student organization, we understand the challenges of coordinating a large group of busy students. We are not trying to be overly harsh.

Opinion: What will happen to the guards of democracy?

By Editorial Board | February 13

In the United States, we talk a lot about the right-left political spectrum.

Opinion: Keep a close eye on UNC's new hire — another spokesperson

By Editorial Board | February 10

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is constantly trying to protect its image. Keeping UNC looking good is integral to raising funds during ...

Opinion: The president’s power to wage war should frighten us

By Editorial Board | February 10

The presidency has never been more dangerous.

Opinion: #DeleteUber and consider your options

By Editorial Board | February 10

In January of 2017, Uber broke up a Muslim taxi strike by dropping its surcharges.

Local business leaders and community officials held their annual Chapel Hill-Carrboro Chamber of Commerce Meeting Thursday morning. UNC System Body President Margaret Spellings spoke at the meeting.

Opinion: Spellings and DeVos may create a public schools disaster

By Editorial Board | February 8

Vice President Mike Pence cast a historic tie-breaking vote yesterday to confirm Betsy DeVos as Secretary of Education. It is clear that DeVos has, at ...

Opinion: Chapel Hill and Carrboro, thank you for caring

By Editorial Board | February 8

Chapel Hill and Carrboro are special. It is no secret that both towns are mostly liberal places, but focusing on political ideologies completely ...

Opinion: A responsible endowment

By Editorial Board | February 6

Endowing professorships has been common practice in the United States for some time. It first occurred when Thomas Hollis, a London merchant, gave money ...

Lena Dunham leads a march with a heard of UNC students in tow to the early voting site at Chapel of the Cross.

Opinion: The celebrity is political

By Editorial Board | February 6

Gone are the days where Taylor Swift can stand on stages in sparkly dresses with her guitar and sing songs about love and heartache.

Campus Y Co-President Forum 6-7 on Wednesday night

Opinion: Why we care about the upcoming Campus Y election

February 6

This year, the editorial board decided to interview both sets of Campus Y co-presidential candidates, Alexander Peeples and Courtney Staton, and Nick ...

Opinion: How did the Right become the “godly’”party?

By Editorial Board | February 6

Lately, we have seen right-wing politicians invoking Judeo-Christian worldviews.

Opinion: Identity is a process of flourishing and changing

By Editorial Board | February 3

Cognitive dissonance — the process by which the beliefs someone thinks they hold and the reality of their actions contradict each other — may seem ...

The university's Vice Chancellor Winston Crisp talks about the Tar Heel Thanksgiving tradition and what it means to students who cannot go home for the short holiday, Friday morning, Nov. 20.

Opinion: Student leaders must fight for our self-governance

By Editorial Board | February 2

In the issue of the “separation” between the graduate and the undergraduate student governments, our editorial board believes the chief issue at stake ...