by Alexander H. Jones | Jun 22, 2021 | Politics |
United States Senate races are heavily determined by the national political environment. In a good year for Democrats, any nominee will have a solid chance of becoming the first member of the NC Donkey Party to win a U.S. Senate race since Kay Hagan in 2008. A good...
by Alexander H. Jones | Jun 18, 2021 | Politics
The United States is the only country on Earth whose identity is bound up in documents. Since the Founding era, Americans have referred to the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and other seminal texts as lode stars for what it means to be a member of this...
by Alexander H. Jones | Jun 17, 2021 | Politics |
From the perspective of today, The Strange Career of Jim Crow is an odd book. C. Vann Woodward’s slim volume was groundbreaking at the time, changing our understanding segregation’s origins on a fundamental level. Its main thesis was that Jim Crow as not...
by Alexander H. Jones | Jun 16, 2021 | Politics
State Superintendent of Public Instruction Catherine Truitt’s old boss Pat McCrory once admonished North Carolinians not to “put your stupid hat on.” Opinions may differ as to whether Truitt sported that particular variant of chapeau in her Trumpist...
by Alexander H. Jones | Jun 14, 2021 | Politics |
Looking back on today from the vantage point of the future, Americans may see January 6 not as a culmination but as a preview. The Biden administration came as a profound relief for millions of Americans and indeed the world, but forces at work deep in the bowels of...
