According to an Agence France-Presse "fact check," social media posts slamming Kamala Harris's plan to tax "unrealized" capital gains are "mostly false" — not because they lie about the fundamental …

As we enter the final weeks of the 2024 campaign, here’s the stay of play: North Carolina is a state in play. The latest Carolina Journal Poll has Donald Trump leading Kamala Harris by an …

The County Compass is a tabloid-sized weekly publication distributed free to Pamlico, Beaufort, Craven, Jones and Carteret counties. It claims to offer “360 degrees of thorough and honest news …

North Carolina’s economy has been a powerhouse of growth in recent decades. The state has been recognized by several organizations as one of the top places for economic development. North Carolina …

Contentious political factions are nothing new in the United States. John Adams once wrote that during the American Revolution, the country was roughly divided into three groups — those who were …

In the past, I've written on (my friend and heroine) Caryn Ann Harlos's challenge to Colorado's law commanding that “[no] election official, watcher, or person shall reveal to any other person the …

The devastation wreaked on North Carolina by Hurricane Helene will take weeks to assess, months to clear out, and years to repair or rebuild. Second only to the value of the lives lost will be the …

In a perfect example of the Nanny State mindset at work, Hillary Clinton insists that the powers-that-be need “total control” in order to make the internet a safer place for users and protect us …

Government officials and average citizens of all guises and stripes have done a mostly remarkable job of carrying out relief efforts in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene. Notwithstanding the …

On Oct. 7, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected an appeal from X — formerly Twitter — concerning, among other issues, the use of "nondisclosure orders" when prosecutors serve search warrants. In this …

Whether the frame of reference is North Carolina or the nation as a whole, no one can dispute the fact that there is a partisan divide — and that it has been growing. According to survey research …

"On its current trajectory," Craig Martin & Scott Moore write at Foreign Affairs, "the world is unlikely to meet the limits it set for itself in the 2015 Paris Agreement to halt global warming. …

Tempting as it might be for those who’ve long watched, worried and warned about the increasingly destructive impacts of climate change, the massive — what many are describing as “Biblical” …