Robert Caro, the award-winning writer who has spent more time thinking about LBJ than probably even Lady Bird did, told a story about his...

There is debate over whether North Carolina really is, as our license plates say, “first in flight.” The state of Ohio has tried for a...

Dear Editor, There you go playing the victim again. I'm sure if you and your friends the Seriously Stupid 7 were in court in front of a...

Puritanism, H.L. Mencken wrote, “is the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.” A better definition is “the haunting fear...

At a remove of almost 50 years, my two surviving partners-in-crime growing up in Rockingham and I concluded that most of the offenses for...

For seemingly one of the few days this winter, it wasn't raining last Saturday afternoon in Durham and the open sunroof was actually that...

Here are a few of the recent letters from adoring readers. As the most literate readers in the world deserve, keep your comments clean.

Every year I've attended the Hayti Heritage Film Festival, I've been exposed to 2 or 3 fantastic films I'd have never heard of otherwise!

TED FLED – and left his constituents and young daughters out in the cold. Ask me for a “profile in courage in the snow,” and my answer...