things judged worthy by someone aside from me
A parade of players left this year, and the university investigated a coach. Some athletes say those are just two signs of trouble in Anson Dorrance’s famed program.
Type: reporting
North Carolina’s most important furniture maker was a free man of color who owned slaves. He also might have been an abolitionist. Is the state ready for his story?
Type: reporting
Four key questions will play a role in shaping the outcome of Durham’s municipal election.
Type: reporting
Durham is quite literally being remade. You don’t have to believe in the housing theory of everything to see how the council’s development decisions are shaping the city’s future.
Type: reporting
An apparent détente in the police reform debate might prove to be only a temporary ceasefire. A single shooting could still spark a political firestorm, and the legacy of marquee crime prevention strategies will depend on the next council’s budgets.
Type: reporting
Following two years marked by chaos and scandal, the INDY is launching a four-part investigation into what brought Durham to this point, how it’s impacting local government responses to the pressing issues of crime and gentrification, and what comes next.
Type: reporting
Shopping for a simple couch or dresser is driving Americans mad. The cheap stuff breaks (or never arrives) and the good stuff is unaffordable. What does the future hold for one of the nation’s most important industries? North Carolina furniture makers are at the center of the struggle.
Type: reporting
When the governor endorsed a primary challenger to an incumbent Democrat, he waded into a complicated state Senate race—and may have risked his veto power in the process.
Type: reporting
Efforts to diversify the industry might be having the opposite effect. And although puzzles are an important part of The New York Times’ business strategy, only a handful of people actually make a living from crosswords.
Type: reporting
Three years ago, one of the best women’s soccer teams in the world was the centerpiece of a potential $2 billion investment in the Triangle. Now they’re mired in scandal and protest.
Type: reporting
Big investments in professional soccer could reshape North Carolina’s sports landscape and its biggest cities.
Type: reporting
Examining the role municipal bonds played in building today's cities.
Type: criticism
How the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated inequities in the Triangle's housing market—and what we can do before it's too late.
Type: reporting
Our political imagination is as bad as failed '90s blockbusters.
Type: criticism
A review of Joseph Andras's novel Tomorrow They Won't Dare to Murder Us.
Type: criticism
Mysterious out-of-state money owns more of Durham than ever, and there's little the city can do about it.
Type: reporting
Prisons have always been unjust. This crisis makes clear why.
Type: commentary
Online reviews offer me the hope of making an informed decision, but there are so many of them I can’t make any decisions at all.
Type: commentary
Sports video games don’t simulate sports so much as the thrill of building a brand.
Type: commentary
Heroic tales of disabled athletes celebrate the exceptional, and exclude those who are simply trying to compete.
Type: reporting
The Continental’s use of gold coins raises more questions than answers—though it’s a bit of nonsense that may actually be a sneaky good depiction of real life.
Type: criticism
Clear, persuasive political messages require making people see the obvious.
Type: commentary
Some people are burnt out while others are simply exploited. We can organize around the shared interest of making our free time actually free.
Type: commentary
What makes Down Home North Carolina different is that it sticks around.
Type: reporting
Eight years ago, Chapel Hill enacted the most progressive affordable housing policy in the Triangle. Here’s how it failed.
Type: reporting
The revolutionary strategy of actually asking people what they think.
Type: reporting
To become an interracial movement, DSA must build institutions.
Type: commentary
Does farm-to-table help farming towns?
Type: reporting
The past, present, and future of beer in the Triangle.
Type: reporting
We get the Tronc we deserve.
Type: criticism
Newsies as a lens for our political situation.
Type: criticism
The Paris Commune, in light of Ferguson, Eric Garner, and Occupy.
Type: criticism
On Ivan Vladislavić's The Restless Supermarket.
Type: criticism
Fighting through Blanchot for the first time.
Type: criticism | academic
A frustrating and wandering treatise-cum-cultural history.
Type: criticism | academic
A brilliant, Kafka-esque Togolese novel.
Type: criticism
A conference paper on Cavell, Heidegger, and Thoreau.
Type: academic
Paul C. Taylor's lucid philosophical introduction.
Type: criticism | academic
Analyzing the uses of apocalyptic language during the 2012 election.
Type: commentary
We Need a New Kind of Socialist Organization
The hierarchical vs. horizontal debate is old, tired, and getting us nowhere.
Type: commentary