by Alexander H. Jones | Mar 1, 2022 | Politics |
Joe Killian is the documentarian of UNC’s troubles. The NC Policy Watch reporter broke another probing story yesterday about political influence at our flagship school. Though the content it conveys pales in outrage to Trustees’ attack on Nikole...
by Alexander H. Jones | Feb 23, 2022 | Politics |
Between the year 2000 and the end of that decade, North Carolina was the sixth-fastest growing state in the country. But even as the metros and resorts boomed, eight counties lost population. That divergence starkly illustrated the unfairness generated by a global...
by Alexander H. Jones | Feb 20, 2022 | Politics |
Like a smug frat boy lecturing a pointy-headed nerd, Pat McCrory likes to flaunt his economic acumen. On Twitter this weekend, McCrory “explained” that any time federal funds enter a state’s economy, the money in question is debt, and “a 101...
by Alexander H. Jones | Feb 17, 2022 | Politics
The maps released by House and Senate Republicans for the purpose of satisfying court demands for fair representation are, to put it bluntly, a joke. The Voting Rights Act requires three characteristics for passable maps, one of which is that they must reflect social...
by Alexander H. Jones | Feb 15, 2022 | Politics |
In the early 1960s, parents in the roiling conservative hotbed of Orange County, California, took aim at a history textbook. The text, written by the legendary historian John Hope Franklin, allegedly took too dim a view of the American past, and therefore had to be...
