Cities and towns in North Carolina are demanding better from a utility company with a dreadful environmental record.

Hurricane season is getting longer. Building higher sea walls won’t save us.

After the disaster in Huntersville, Colonial Pipeline now holds the record for largest gas spill in both North and South Carolina. Thanks to its polished P.R. team, you likely have no clue.

Duke Energy’s influence in North Carolina goes well beyond the electricity bill.

In response to calls for more regulation, Cherie Berry wrote that Covid-19 was not “proven likely to cause death or serious physical harm from the perspective of an occupational hazard.”

Native voters continue to be othered by the media, but the election results prove their vote has never been stronger.

Searching for hope and finding more reasons for despair in my home state

The presidential race may be a toss-up in North Carolina, but the Democratic governor is cruising to reelection. What’s he doing right?

I pushed my local school board to adopt Indigenous Peoples’ Day. It was a real victory—but only a first step.

A mix of Trumpian meddling, legal holdups, and a bureaucratic mess is putting Black voters at risk this election.

Thom Tillis’s staffer was cruel but correct in his conversation with a cancer survivor.

The pandemic should force America to remake higher education.

Governments from Durham to Providence have launched racial equity initiatives, but the long work of restitution can’t stay a local matter.

The rural, Native, Black, and Latinx communities protesting the controversial pipeline deserve clean, safe places to call home.

Underreporting in communities of color has left us with a distorted view of the pandemic’s true reach—and the lessons we’ll need for next time.

From Georgia to Florida, the malice and incompetence of Republican leadership will get people killed. Save your stereotypes.

From manufacturing hand sanitizer to processing chicken, incarcerated workers face extreme risk for virtually no pay.

How today’s religious right functions as a shadow political party

They think she’ll be easier to beat in the general election—and some Democrats agree. New research suggests otherwise.

Decades of anti-unionism are coming to a head in the state.