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Christy Melvin

What do you call it when somewhere between 6 and 8 million people enter the United States illegally in the course of three years? Many people would call it a

Most of North Carolinas Republican establishment publicly denies harboring any concerns about Mark Robinson’s political viability. But their anxieties are widely known and indisputable.

Patriotism is not an ordinary word. It is a cornerstone word, an assumption word. All politicians are assumed to be patriotic citizens who put country before self, but do they?

A revolution brews in the Democratic Party, and its not the usual left-wing threats to sabotage moderate Democratic candidates. Its the Democratic mainstream telling the fringe to go pound sand.

As the new year dawns, the American economy is in good shape. But the public is in a bad mood. That contradiction dominates our political life, and how voters untangle

The University of North Carolina is a magnet for conservative abuse. One generation after another, Chapel Hill attracts the ire of the state’s right-wing political elite. These critics tend to

Like all the Republican candidates for president, Nikki Haley is trying to find the secret formula for running against Donald Trump. The most recent Fox News national poll — in

I have written in the past about the similarities of the stress and tensions in our country today to the stress and tensions that were taking place in the years

Alexander H. Jones is a policy analyst with Carolina Forward in Carrboro.