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Midcycle redistricting deepens America’s divide

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2026/01/03

When the Indiana state Senate recently rejected a mid-cycle partisan redistricting of its congressional delegation, it was not only a rebuke to President Donald J. Trump; it also upheld a norm that has guided American democracy for more than a century. Since the early 1900s, states have almost never redrawn congressional maps outside the decennial […]

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Best of 2025: Our top editorial cartoons of 2025

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2025/12/31

As we say goodbye to 2025, we hope you’ll enjoy some of our favorite editorial cartoons of the past year by NC Newsline’s political cartoonist John Cole. Happy New Year from all of us at NC Newsline!

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UNC system’s new ‘work for hire’ policy is a...

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2025/12/23

Once upon a time I consulted with a local nonprofit that needed help revising a client satisfaction questionnaire. Years earlier, I had apprenticed as a survey researcher, so I knew how to do this sort of thing. It’s a craft like any other. I fixed several problems with the old questionnaire and drafted a new […]

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The Education Governor

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2025/12/22

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Publicly posting course syllabi will harm North...

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2025/12/11

The UNC system recently decided behind closed doors that faculty syllabi are no longer their own intellectual property and instead are public records. This is a bad thing for all North Carolinians, and here’s why. The University is supposed to be a place where there is a free exchange of ideas, learning, and conversations that […]

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Rate-hike shocker

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2025/12/08

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Reckless federal agents are the threat, not cameras

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2025/12/03

When Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials swept into North Carolina, Governor Josh Stein urged people to pull out their phones and record any inappropriate behavior. It’s good advice. Filming law enforcement in public is one of the few tools ordinary people have to hold powerful federal agents accountable. The right to record police in public […]

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Trump’s terror tactics arrive in North Carolina

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2025/12/02

Tuesday, Nov. 18 started out the way most other days had of late in the relatively brief life of Triangle-area resident Fernando Vazquez. Like so many children of immigrants who, despite being native-born American citizens, find themselves working alongside their parents at difficult, low-paying jobs that most of their fellow Americans are unwilling to take […]

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Medicaid: Facts and Concerns

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2025/12/01

In 1965, after creating Medicare to provide health services for people over the age of 65, the federal government created Medicaid to help low-income children and disabled people of all ages access necessary health and human services. Medicare is funded and administered at the federal level. Medicaid is a joint venture through which a state […]

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Skinny Medicaid budgets, ballooning demand for GLP-1...

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2025/12/01

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Politicians shuffle, restack deck, games go on

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2025/11/20

Ever played Jenga? It’s the game in which a tower’s blocks are removed until the absence of one causes the entire structure to collapse. The Affordable Care Act (ACA) is that consequential piece in the health insurance game, and very shaky, unsteady Republicans are messing with it. To insert another board game, it’s like the […]

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GOP federal and legislative leaders: United in...

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2025/11/18

It’s been a hallmark of most of the noteworthy political movements that have emerged and risen to power in modern times that their leaders aspired to use government power to improve society. Plenty of these movements were deeply flawed or downright fraudulent, but virtually all – even some of the worst authoritarian parties and leaders […]

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Elections board reveals new partisan voice

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2025/11/17

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Help is on the way … ?

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2025/11/10

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Health Care Horror Show

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2025/10/30

It’s the Halloween season and this year, there’s no shortage of holiday scares. The federal government is shut down. Millions of Americans are at risk of losing their health care coverage or facing skyrocketing premium increases, and millions more won’t be receiving the food assistance they need to feed their families come November 1. Americans […]

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Top stocking stuffer this holiday season — affordable...

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2025/10/27

It’s the most wonderful time of the year. Well, almost. Autumn leaves will fall first, rolling out a brownish-orange carpet for Thanksgiving and, before that, Halloween. Just how happy those holidays will be is the thing. The National Retail Federation (NRF) should have some insight during a Nov. 6 media call announcing its retail sales […]

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Trick or Treat?

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2025/10/27

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North Carolina needs evidence-driven solutions not...

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2025/10/08

“There will be no firing squads in North Carolina during my time as governor,” Governor Josh Stein said Oct. 3 after signing a criminal justice bill into law in response to the tragic murder of 23-year-old Iryna Zarutska on the Charlotte light rail. A statement we can’t believe had to be uttered in 2025. Iryna’s […]

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Poll exposes potential Achilles’ Heel for the...

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2025/10/07

There are more than a few modern American progressives who wish that the leaders on their side of the great national political divide possessed the same commitment to hardball, take-no-prisoners politics as their conservative adversaries. “Boy, we sure hate what they’re doing to our country,” goes the thinking that one often hears expressed, “but we […]

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North Carolina’s Zen governor

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2025/09/09

The governor of North Carolina earns an annual salary of a little over $200,000 per year. While it’s only about a fifth or less of what the average partner in a big law firm can expect to bring home and a fiftieth what the football coach at the state’s flagship university rakes in, it’s still […]

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