Clarence Henderson speaks at a Trump campaign event in High Point, N.C., in September 2016. (AP Photo/Alex Sanz) Tucked inside the General Assembly’s last full budget, in 2023, was a little-noticed ...

Inside UNC-Chapel Hill’s development office. Plus, legislative activity and a 60-year Duke professor on the future of academia.

We have another intern to introduce on The Assembly team. We’re excited to welcome Tori Newby, who recently graduated from UNC-Chapel Hill. Close readers might recognize her byline—she wrote for us in ...

In 1992, The New York Times profiled literature scholar Stanley Fish, who was in the midst of building Duke University’s English department into a world-renowned hub of avante garde academic trends.

Republican Sen. Michael Lee was “a little nervous” last Wednesday as he stepped up to present one of his bills to the Senate education committee. “Because I’m nervous, I’m going to just read something ...

The announcement UNC-Chapel Hill Vice Chancellor for Development Michael Andreasen delivered to a room of university deans in December 2024 blindsided many of them. Starting the following year, top ...

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The high-ranking DOJ lawyer was reared in the 1970s as an outsider—an Indian Sikh girl in a town with a Ku Klux Klan ...

Lawmakers hope to pass a full budget in a month. But they haven’t reached consensus on a number of priorities.

Nondisclosure agreements kept a land deal secret for months. Internal emails show officials were preparing for a Microsoft ...

Kate Barr previously ran an unwinnable race to make a point about gerrymandering. Now she’s entering the GOP primary against U.S. Rep. Tim Moore. This story is published through our partnership with ...