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Body & Mind

Health Care Monopolies Strike Back

Three ways big health care systems are fighting new rules and antitrust scrutiny

May 15, 2023 • by Pat Garofalo

It looks to me like a case of UNC Health is reading the writing on the wall and trying to get ahead of either court cases that could harm its future power....

Politics

When a Boycott Blocks Queer Research

California LGBT legislators convinced their colleagues to prohibit spending public funds in states with anti-LGBT laws—and created roadblocks for researchers who could help solve the problem

May 18, 2021 • by Marc Stein

_____ After enacting some of the country’s most regressive anti-trans legislation in April 2021, Arkansas is likely to become the thirteenth state subject to California’s ban on publicly-funded travel to states with anti-LGBT laws. AB1887, enacted in 2016 and effective as of 2017, currently applies to eight southern states (Alabama, Kentucky, ...

Democracy

Why We Need to Defeat White Supremacy at the Ballot Box

North Carolina shows what can happen when anti-Black racism goes mainstream

October 22, 2020 • by Robert Korstad and James Leloudis

Across the nation, white supremacists are growing bolder while our president expresses his approval. Though we have good reason to fear the Proud Boys and other modern-day incarnations of the Ku Klux Klan, we should not focus only on these militant and sometimes heavily armed fringe groups. In the United States, ...

Why We Need to Defeat White Supremacy at the Ballot Box

Activism

When the Trump Circus Came to Town

The fallout from a 2019 visit to Greenville, North Carolina

June 18, 2020 • by Amanda Klein

Trump’s propaganda machine was running full tilt in the summer of 2019, in the weeks leading up to a rally Trump would hold in Greenville, North Carolina, the town where I live and work (teaching at Eastern Carolina University). The year before, the administration had abruptly implemented a brutal policy ...

Activism

A Letter from Hillsborough

A Modern Southern Fairy Tale

August 27, 2019 • by Dorothy Potter Snyder

On the list of the endangered are people of color, women, the LGBTQ community, immigrants, refugees, children, the elderly, and the disabled. Last month, in Hillsborough, North Carolina, once upon a time was now. *** Matthew Shepherd, a gay chocolatier, qualifies for a spot on the endangered list. These are tough times ...

Race

Silent Sam Must Go

An Open Letter to University of North Carolina Chancellor Carol Folt

September 5, 2018 • by Dorothy Potter Snyder

Silent Sam is a metal statue of an armed Confederate soldier that would be artistically insignificant in almost any other context than at the front gates of North Carolina’s state university system. Here, at the flagship campus in Chapel Hill, it is at the center of a hurricane. It’s time for ...