by Alexander H. Jones | May 24, 2021 | Politics |
The fact that Madison Cawthorn lacks a college degree has no bearing on his fitness for public office. Abraham Lincoln had less than one cumulative year of formal education. More saliently, the late North Carolina Senate leader Marc Basnight never completed a...
by Alexander H. Jones | May 21, 2021 | Politics
In a searing tweet, Wesleyan University president Michael S. Roth said, “This is a pathetic attempt to silence one of the most important voices about US history. We’d welcome her @wesley_u.” For anyone who believes in public higher education,...
by Alexander H. Jones | May 20, 2021 | Politics |
“I’m cutting up the credit card,” then-Governor Pat McCrory said flippantly. The context was an unprecedented cut in unemployment benefits that had been crafted behind closed doors by business lobbyists and signed without a thought by the new,...
by Alexander H. Jones | May 19, 2021 | Politics |
Well, the cure is worse than the disease. Ever aggrieved at their supposed exclusion, right-wing conservatives launched another attack on academic freedom at UNC. Under pressure from Art Pope’s henchmen the politically appointed UNC-Chapel Hill Board of Trustees...
by Alexander H. Jones | May 18, 2021 | Politics |
When the NCGOP’s house publication Carolina Journal trumpeted the news that our state was ranked fifth in a new index of state economic competitiveness, I made a bet with myself that the report had come from ALEC. I won that bet. The American Legislative...
