My latest author conversation for @contrariannews.org open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

The Carolina Hurricanes won their first Stanley Cup championship in 20 years on Sunday night after defeating the Vegas Golden Knights in Game 6 of the NHL Stanley Cup Finals. www.wunc.org/term/news/20...

Wonderful speaking with the good people at @wunc.org "Due South" about my recent reporting for @indyweek.bsky.social on who was impacted by federal job cuts in the Triangle and where those folks ended up www.wunc.org/show/due-sou...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Tulsi Gabbard resigns as Trump’s national intelligence director, citing husband's health, in 4th Cabinet departure.

My latest: for @indyweek.bsky.social I took a look at how many workers in the Triangle lost jobs due to federal cuts over the past year — and why it's so hard to know where they've ended up indyweek.com/news/triangl...

My nephew got us watching the DC show Naomi and look, I'm just a civilian reporter but the dad in the show going from captain in the first scene to major later the same episode in a dress uniform with a CIB, Air Assault & Parachutist award but literally no ribbons is throwing me off

Still incredibly proud to be listed as a contributor on this story

I talked to folks around Fort Bragg about the impact of increased deployments due to the conflict in Iran. The reaction was basically a shrug — over the course of GWOT, even unexpected deployments have become part of life www.cityviewnc.com/stories/as-f...

Georgia Democratic Rep. David Scott, 80, has died

Reese Gorman scoop: Chavez-DeRemer out at the Dpt of Labor www.notus.org/trump-white-...

AP: A judge says an Army veteran accused of leaking classified information about an elite commando unit will be released while awaiting a possible trial. www.wunc.org/term/news/20...

APNewsAlert: TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — #Iran includes 'acceptance of enrichment' in Farsi version of its ceasefire plan, something missing from English versions.

God help us.

BREAKING: In a 4-3 ruling, North Carolina's Supreme Court has overturned its 2022 ruling in the Leandro lawsuit, a long-standing school funding case that began in 1994. #ncpol

I think this is an interesting result and caution for social science folks, but digging beyond the headline it's also clear that the results aren't necessarily wrong — seems like transparent data sharing and clear methodologies are a bigger issue than errors www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Spoke with Anand Gopal earlier this month about his new book, “Days of Love and Rage” substack.com/@abekenmore/...

The last few weeks I feel like podcasts have been cramming more advertisements than usual in, finally checked and one of my morning podcasts had a 4.5 minute mid-episode ad break in a 25 minute podcast. What are we doing here?

My latest for The Grade: The "Southern Surge" attracted a lot of attention, but for two Massachusetts reporters it raised questions about how New England is doing in contrast. I wrote about why open.substack.com/pub/alexande...

Well this is horrible. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/18/u...

A good update to an incredible story: www.thebanner.com/community/lo...

Police are responding to reports of an “active shooter” at a synagogue outside Detroit, where smoke is billowing from the roof.

Spoke with @katz.theracket.news for @contrariannews.org about "Gangsters of Capitalism," what we miss about politics today when we forget America's history abroad and whether after 250 years the Declaration of Independence is still a reference for revolutionaries open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

Timeline: Burmese refugee’s arrest to death www.investigativepost.org/2026/02/26/t...

Durham mayor blasts ‘status quo’ after 6 men and kids shot in 6 days Read more at: www.heraldsun.com/news/local/c...

Trump, who says he had "no idea" at the time that Epstein sexually molested girls, told the police in 2006 that "everyone has known he’s been doing this.” That's according to an FBI interview with the then-Palm Beach police chief. Here's a gift link to Julie K. Brown's article in the Miami Herald.

Breaking news: An employee of El Paso County’s Office of the Medical Examiner said it is likely to classify the death of Geraldo Lunas Campos at an ICE detention center as a homicide. A detainee says he witnessed Campos being choked to death by guards.

Breaking news: The FBI executed a search warrant Wednesday morning at a Washington Post reporter’s home as part of an investigation into a government contractor accused of illegally retaining classified government materials.

She says ICE agents mocked her: “The ICE agent who had pepper sprayed into the vents of my car said ‘you guys gotta stop obstructing us, that’s why that lesbian b—— is dead,’ verbatim, speaking of Renee Good. Which filled me with absolute rage and shock..." www.mprnews.org/episode/2026...

Breaking News: The EPA will stop considering lives saved when setting pollution limits and instead calculate only the cost to businesses.

My latest: A breakdown of what the NDAA authorized for Fort Bragg. Much of the construction budget is going to Special Forces projects in one form or another, including a microgrid for training facilities, a new hangar to maintain planes used by SF and more www.cityviewnc.com/stories/spec...

ICE Agent Who Reportedly Shot Renee Good Was a Firearms Trainer, Per Testimony www.wired.com/story/ice-ag...

An ICE officer fatally shot a woman driving an SUV through her car window in south Minneapolis on Wednesday. The official account differs markedly from videos from witnesses, report @minnesotareformer.com and @statesnewsroom.com buff.ly/RWpV7yu

A Narrow Window of Hope for People Sentenced to Die in Prison www.theassemblync.com/news/politic...

apnews.com/article/minn... ICE agent shoots and kills a woman during the Minneapolis immigration crackdown

My latest conversation for @contrariannews.org with author Nora Neus about her new book “24 Hours at the Capitol” open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

That is a lot of news to wake up to.

WHOA. This is wild -- she was up by 30+ points on her Republican primary opponent. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/n...

I'm all for newspapers doing what they have to in order to raise revenue, but I just had to click through two pop-up ads just to hit the paywall notice on an article and that feels a bit excessive

Humanities students should understand some level of mathematics just like STEM majors should know how to write clearly