War and Morality
War is the most horrific series of events upon which any government can engage. It is systematic, industrialized, indiscriminate killing. It kills innocent adults and little girls. It often ruins the post-war lives of the killers. It is young men violently fighting...
Disability rights group tells history of State Hospital through ‘people, not patients’
New history booklet tells what it was like to live on the Bull Street campus that opened in 1828 COLUMBIA, S.C. — To outsiders, the then-called South Carolina Lunatic Asylum in the 1800s was an idyllic, tranquil place to live, with garden paths and therapeutic...
Trump’s War Psychology
Two weeks after the start of the Iran War, the picture is coming into focus. Why would a president who promised countless times not to start new wars have leapt into this conflict? As always in the age of Trump, it's necessary to separate the president's motives and...
News Around the South, 3/16 to 3/23
NORTH CAROLINA: Low-income renters in North Carolina far outnumber affordable housing units There are only 38 affordable and available rental homes — three fewer than last year— for every 100 of North Carolina’s 350,000 extremely low-income households, according to a...
Free Speech for Me But Not For Thee
Last week, the chair of the Federal Communications Commission threatened to rescind the broadcast licenses of media entities that do not relate events in Iran or Ukraine as the Trump administration would like them to be related. He also attacked The Wall Street...
Southern Living Names Best BBQ Joints in Every Southern State
By Robert Moss Barbecue inspires a special kind of loyalty in the South. When we asked Southern Living readers to name the best barbecue joint in their state, they showed up with strong opinions and even stronger favorites. Readers chose plenty of old standbys, but a...
The Inexplicable War
Why are we there? Is it because Israel was going to go there first/anyway, or because we wanted Israel to go? What are we doing there? Did we really bomb a girls' school? How could we have made such a mistake? How can we not take responsibility if we did? You hear it...
News From Around the South, 3/9 to 3/16
Mississippi-set Sinners wins four Academy Awards Sinners’ extraordinary run has finally come to an end at the Oscars 2026, nearly a year after it was first released in theaters. Ryan Coogler’s Southern Vampire drama had been surging coming into tonight, scoring more...
Silent Attacks on Personal Freedom
During the first Trump administration, the FBI quietly spent $5 million on Pegasus, an Israeli-developed software product known generically as zero click. Zero click permits the user to download the contents of another mobile or desktop device without tricking the...
The Downfall of ICE Barbie
I'm the last person to defend her. For starters, I'm a dog lover and shooting a puppy you "hate" because you couldn't train her to hunt pheasant is no way to win my respect. The fact that she told the story on herself in her autobiography, presumably to polish her...
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NORTH CAROLINA: Low-income renters in North Carolina far outnumber affordable housing units There are only 38 affordable and available rental homes — three fewer than last year— for every 100 of Read More