Clayton Henkel

The past few years have seldom been a time for celebration in the world of North Carolina policymaking.

The weeks following last month's election have been anything but quiet in the state legislature. As has become a kind of perverse post-election tradition when Democrats manage to win a few statewide offices or narrow the margin in the state House and Senate, Republican legislative leaders are using a lame duck session to

It's a great tragedy of our time that the global climate change crisis did not emerge suddenly or as a surprise.

Commission strips Raleigh HBCU of accreditation after previous ruling and probation. The university plans to appeal.

Wide-ranging law curbs authority of newly elected Democrats and offers limited aid to storm-ravaged western NC

Over the last several years, few authors have done a better job of digging below the surface to chronicle what's really going on in American politics – and in particular, the relentless brand of legal and policy hardball played by the Republican party – than David Daley. Daley's best known book – which featured the provocative title, Ratf**ked– detailed how the political right has used partisan gerrymandering to rig elections and, in effect, disenfranchise millions of voters.

The 2024 election is now receding quickly in the rear-view mirror, but that doesn't mean it's not still interesting and important to understand what voters were and are thinking and, here in North Carolina, that's where public opinion surveys like the Meredith College Poll come in.

Erica Palmer Smith, the executive director of the advocacy group NC Child, explains why affordable child care is critically important to our state’s economy.

A new law enacted by North Carolina Republican legislators that purports to be about Hurricane Helene relief is, for the most part, anything but.

As the world races to reduce fossil fuel use and carbon pollution in order to combat the climate change crisis, one enormously promising source of non-polluting energy is offshore wind.