In 1993, the first issue of the Review opposed the construction of the Sonja Hayes Black Cultural Center on UNC's campus, claiming that "on the surface, [the BCC] seems like a good idea.

Leading up to and immediately after the toppling of the Silent Sam statue at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2018, several opinion pieces were featured in the journal opposing the take-down of the Confederate monument.

Zachary Kosnitzky, a former writer for the Review, stated in The Washington Post that he considered the extralegal takedown of the statue as "mob rule".

The article panned Dixon for receiving two misdemeanor counts of "having a weapon at a public assembly or rally and going armed to the terror of the people" during an unrelated Durham protest in 2017, according to The Herald-Sun.

Under the 2020–2021 Editor-in-chief Bryson Piscitelli,[10] an undergraduate student at UNC, the number of contributors and other staff quadrupled in size and regular publication restarted.

Notable articles in recent issues of the journal include an interview with North Carolina Supreme Court Justice Paul Newby.

Many articles include submissions from students across numerous majors, and guest writers have been invited to provide input on print.

Most of these writings consist of commentaries on various social issues, such as patriotism and college life, along with conservative talking points such as gun control or decrying racial unrest in the United States.

[9] Various pieces informed on politics have also been written throughout the history of the paper, such as various election editions spanning back to the Bob Dole campaign.

Plans to expand an online presence in the wake of COVID-19 were put forth due to the pandemic's effect on physical copy outreach on campus.