Column: Google thinks I'm a bad writer (and other thoughts on data collection)

Technology is so deeply intertwined with our lives that our data is at greater risk than anyone else’s. We’re on Snapchat, Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and so many other apps, and sharing so much of our day to day activities on them, while failing to consider how what we think is private information that can be used by these companies.  

Column: Please, criticize journalists more

"Journalists hold a uniquely powerful position in society, and, as such, our mistakes can wreck lives. Criticism from the public is necessary to hold us accountable and to remind us that we, like everyone else, are fallible."

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 be."

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 the racial justice rubric. The law can’t recognize an unquantifiable concept like institutional racism. The only real question is whether administrators at UNC allowed their ideology to cloud their understanding of law and the Constitution.  

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. 

Editorial: Go to the MLK Keynote Lecture

MLK Day took nearly 30 years to be recognized by all 50 states as a federal holiday. Remember to celebrate it meaningfully.

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 decrease in fertility rates, largely due to cultural and economic factors. The Editorial Board was intrigued by this finding and decided to ask some of its female members about their opinions on having children after graduation. 

Letter to the editor: What Sam stood for

The pairing of the two statues would show what Silent Sam stood for when he was given his place of honor, and how the forces that created our Civil War remain alive today, enshrined on the UNC campus.

Letter to the editor: Crossword troubles, yet again

This is now at least the third letter I have written for similar infractions in past semesters.

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 semester.

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 for cooperation ..."

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 thing we can do is let go.