by Alexander H. Jones | Mar 15, 2021 | Politics |
With a single vote, Democrats finally banished the ghost of Reagan. The American Rescue Plan is not the first time that Congress has expanded the welfare state since Ronald Reagan left office, but it is arguably the first time that Democrats have passed an expansion...
by Alexander H. Jones | Mar 8, 2021 | Politics
With broad vaccination efforts and the imminent passage of the president’s COVID-19 relief bill, the Biden administration is sailing toward a successful start. But President Biden’s first 100 days will be incomplete unless his party manages to pass H.R. 1,...
by Alexander H. Jones | Mar 4, 2021 | Politics
Sometimes a book can become dated to the point that it is newly topical. David Brooks set out to capture the spirit of George Bush’s America in 2004. From that ambition was born his entertaining and often-brilliant second book, On Paradise Drive: How We Live...
by Alexander H. Jones | Feb 25, 2021 | Politics
Senate Republicans are out to defeat more cabinet members than is customary for an incoming administration. Generally their objections have centered on accusations, specious and hypocritical, that Biden’s nominees exhibit too much partisanship–this from a...
by Alexander H. Jones | Feb 22, 2021 | Politics
With so many subdivisions and shopping malls sprouting up across North Carolina, it can be hard to appreciate just how old this state is. People first began inhabiting the future North Carolina 12,000 years ago. Europeans first made contact with the state nearly 500...
