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This year has seen former President Trump face 91 felony charges across two states. An ongoing civil fraud trial in the state of New York. has been among his encounters with the courts.

Trump on trial: Former president faces fraud charges

Grady Tarleton, Staff Writer December 1, 2023

Former President Donald Trump currently is on trial in New York for allegedly lying to investors and inflating his net worth. Trump has had a rocky post-presidency, with multiple civil and criminal cases...

The controversy over marijuana is not new, as seen in this photo of the Space Odyssey Marijuana March in  New Orleans in 2001. Via commons.wikimedia.org

Is weed on the road to legalization?

Samreen Ahmed, Staff Writer October 21, 2022

People have debated marijuana laws in the U.S. since the Marijuana Tax Act of 1937 first made weed illegal nationwide. Concerns about overcriminalization have risen in the past decades, and more evidence...

Why the upcoming midterms have massive implications for 2024

Miles Kirkpatrick, Staff Writer February 26, 2022

With early voting complete in the Texas Primaries, according to the Austin-American Statesman, we are officially in midterm election season, for better or worse. In the modern era, midterm elections...

Manchin, Sinema’s unwillingness to change filibuster rules may cost Democrats the Freedom to Vote Act

Miles Kirkpatrick, Staff Writer January 22, 2022

American democracy is again on life support, and those in charge of saving it are unwilling to operate. Biden and the Democrats, hot on the heels of their failure to pass the Build Back Better Act, seem...

Democrats must utilize their Midterms success

Democrats must utilize their Midterms success

Roman Raies, World and Nation Editor November 16, 2018

There was a blue wave, but it was no tsunami. Democrats won a majority in the U.S. House, but with continued Republican majority in the Senate, and a Republican Supreme Court. Midterm elections are often...

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Midterm results show big victories on both sides

Max Elkan and Kiran Soma November 16, 2018

On Nov. 6, citizens around Guilford County voted in the local, state and national midterm elections in order to determine the people who will be representing their voices in politics. Nationally, Republicans...

Corriher runs as leftist alternative

Finn Williamson and Roman Raies October 26, 2018

With midterm elections coming up on Nov. 6, there are several interesting candidate races in North Carolina, one of which is the four-way race for Congressional House Seat 13. Incumbent Republican Ted...

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Rove, Axelrod kickstart Bryan Series

Finn Williamson, Opinion Editor October 5, 2018

“We seek to find ways for people who disagree or have very different views to stay in the room together and try and find some commonality” said Jane Fernandes, president of Guilford College. “These...

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Democrats redefine state’s rights, expose republicans

Ian Penny, World & Nation Editor March 5, 2017

“States’ rights” is often seen as a pejorative code word, and not without good reason. In the antebellum South, the phrase was used by slave owners to justify their “peculiar institution.”...

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