Every single North Carolina Republican voted to pass President Trump’s budget bill that will cut nearly a trillion dollars from Medicaid, threatening to strip health insurance from more than 660,000 North Carolinians.
Scores of anti-Trump protesters in North Carolina last weekend carried American flags, arguing that this symbol of equality and liberty had been co-opted by an oppressive and autocratic administration.
Something fundamental to the very idea of our country is at risk right now—whether being born in America makes you an American. The US Supreme Court's ruling on birthright citizenship will have significant impacts on our federal government.
Senate Republicans passed President Trump’s budget bill, which if it becomes law, will kick 11 million people off Medicaid over the next decade, including an estimated 663,000 in North Carolina.
NC Christmas tree farms lost thousands of trees when Helene rolled through western NC in 2024. But wherever you look in 2025, those tree farms say they're bouncing back.
NC Rep. Phil Rubin, a Wake County Democrat, spoke with Cardinal & Pine last month as lawmakers had a chance to return to session and do something about Medicaid funding.
Dr. Beverly A. Gray and Dr. Jonas Swartz co-host the "Outlawed" podcast, a North Carolina-based show that unpacks abortion bans, misinformation, and the human stories behind them.
Cardinal & Pine's Michael McElroy says when people voted for Trump in 2024, they probably weren't envisioning the NC immigration raids we're seeing today.
Amid the Trump administration’s immigration raids in Charlotte, the Save America Movement worked with Siembra NC to train community members who volunteered to help patrol neighborhoods in order to proactively alert immigrants whenever they saw federal agents present.