Let's demystify the boogeyman—the single payer option for healthcare and universal healthcare. This is what keeps some conservatives up at night.
What Democrats' domination of the 2025 elections tells us. "Billy Ball Explains NC" premieres Wednesdays on YouTube. Make sure you're following Cardinal & Pine so you won’t miss an episode!
Pop quiz, NC: What's a plutocracy? This week's edition of "Civics 101" from Senior Editor Billy Ball on the plutocracies, kleptocracies, and idiocracies we're watching right now.
Senior Editor Billy Ball explains the BIG difference between local cops and agents of ICE and the Border Patrol.
Every Wednesday, NC journalist Billy Ball unpacks the most important stories in NC and corrects the bad information.
In the latest "Billy Ball Explains NC," we take a look at what we can do to combat gerrymandering in NC and across the US.
In a new "Billy Ball Explains NC," we take a look at PFAS—aka "forever chemicals—their spread across North Carolina, and their connection to the 2026 US Senate race.
We're talking fascism, autocracy, and authoritarianism in the second part of "Let's Get Civic-al," Cardinal & Pine's crash course on civics in NC.
In North Carolina, weed’s illegal, gerrymandering’s not — and politicians are rigging the rules to stay in power. We're going to break it down it every week at "Billy Ball Explains NC."
Good protests—like the "No Kings" demonstrations in North Carolina—can be silly, loud, rambunctious, and disorganized. They can be disruptive and even dumb. But they are never, ever pointless.
