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Can involuntary outpatient commitment offer a path...

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2026/01/30

The recent tragic murders of Iryna Zarutska and Zoe Welsh highlight the limitations of the public mental health and public safety systems in managing persons with concurrent mental health and criminal legal problems. Two men with serious mental health conditions and criminal legal involvement committed tragic crimes that we hope could have been averted. Despite […]

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Why Parents and Students Should Care About Academic...

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2026/01/26

It’s college admissions season, and many high school seniors in my orbit are considering UNC system schools. As a faculty member for 12 years and a North Carolina resident for more than 20, this delights me. I always recommend my home institution, NC State, but I’m enthusiastic about our entire system, rightly known as one […]

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Border crossings

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2026/01/26

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The North Carolina GOP and its fear of voters

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2026/01/20

One supposes that it’s not an especially unusual phenomenon for politicians who ascend to power to do everything they can to cling to it. Between the ability to shape public policy and the trappings that come with inhabiting high office, political power is almost always an addictive drug that’s hard to kick. That said, it’s […]

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Eager to please.

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2026/01/19

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As 2026 Elections Begin, A Single Vote Could Make the...

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2026/01/13

Does one vote really make a difference in an election? With mail-in voting starting this month for North Carolina’s 2026 Primary, a new report answers that question with a decisive “yes.” Research from Common Cause North Carolina reveals how one person’s vote — or decision not to vote — made the difference in who won or […]

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The heart of ICE

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2026/01/12

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North Carolina’s rigid, unresponsive legislative...

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2026/01/06

There is, of course, nothing new about the spectacle of everyday people being forced to endure great suffering because of the whims, foibles, fears and egos of powerful rulers and politicians. From the forced labor that helped construct the pyramids to the countless wars waged to boost a leader’s domestic political standing, millions of people […]

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Dropping the ball

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2026/01/05

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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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