Remember the Tenacity of 400,000 Welsh Women

Commentary by Rowan Williams One significant anniversary in 2023 passed almost without mention. In May 1923, the Welsh women’s peace petition was initiated—a plea from the women of Wales to the women of the US,…


Where Will the World Find Refuge in 2024?

By Rebecca Gordon Back in 1968, my father announced that, if Richard Nixon were elected president that November, he was going to move us all to Canada. I’m not sure who “us all” actually was,…


If I Must Die

By Refaat Alareer If I must die, you must live to tell my story to sell my things to buy a piece of cloth and some strings, (make it white with a long tail) so…


Seeing Every Child

Nonprofit provides health care regardless of ability to pay By Tiney Ricciardi When Reid DeSpiegelaere, chief development officer at Every Child Pediatrics, talks about his work’s mission, he points to the name of the nonprofit…


‘Shame!’ LNG Plant Opponents Rage

By Lisa Sorg It took nearly two hours for dozens of opponents of a proposed liquified natural gas plant in Person County to ex­plain how the project—aspects of which have been crafted in secret—would harm…



This Is a Pandemic of Attrition

Commentary by Joe Vipond, Julia M. Wright, and Dan Furst It’s time for our society to admit that we’ve made a mistake and change course. The COVID-is-mild experiment, despite the wishing and the hoping, has…




Medicare Needs Modernization and Expansion—

Not Privatization By Jamila Headley & Nicole Jorwic For 58 years, Medicare and Medicaid have provided lifesaving and life-sustaining care for millions of Americans, but they are rapidly being weakened by politicians who insist on…