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Grief feels unbearable, disorienting and chaotic – a grief researcher and widow shares evidence-based ways to face the early days of loss

Grief feels unbearable, disorienting and chaotic – a grief researcher and widow shares evidence-based ways to face the early days of loss

Grief feels unbearable, disorienting and chaotic – a grief researcher and widow shares evidence-based ways to face the early days of loss

In a closely divided Congress, aging lawmakers are a problem for Democrats

In a closely divided Congress, aging lawmakers are a problem for Democrats

In a closely divided Congress, aging lawmakers are a problem for Democrats

In praise of the weird

In praise of the weird

In praise of the weird

Everything We Know About the 2026 Congressional Race in NC-11

Everything We Know About the 2026 Congressional Race in NC-11

Everything We Know About the 2026 Congressional Race in NC-11

by AG Staff Western North Carolina’s gilded foothills are humming—not from cicadas, but from political whispers. The race for the 11th...

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Opinion Pieces

The Cryptic Pour: Asheville’s 9 Most Mysterious Drinks

Some bars are just bars. Others feel like portals—places where the lighting is always just a little too dim, etc.

OPINION: Those APD Videos Are Not Protecting or Serving Anyone

It’s unfortunate, but we have to ask: what are the real consequences of wasting public money and embarrassing the law?

What James Earl Jones can teach us about activism and art in times of crisis

by Dominic Taylor James Earl Jones preps in the dressing room before performing as Jack Jefferson in ‘The Great White Hope’ in December...

Dorothy Allison was an authentic voice for the poor, capturing the beauty, humor and pain of working-class life in America

by Lennard J. Davis Dorothy Allison, who died on Nov. 5, 2024 , published her first novel, “ Bastard Out of Carolina ,” in 1992, when she...

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