by Alexander H. Jones | Jan 11, 2021 | Politics
Bill Clinton’s reputation has waxed an waned for three decades, and now he finds himself in another slump. The #MeToo reckoning caught him in its morally urgent net, his policies on crime and welfare are widely seen as having worsened our problems of racial...
by Alexander H. Jones | Jan 7, 2021 | Politics |
It is common to chart the decline of American democracy by drawing parallels with the troubles that afflict the Third World. Coups, sometimes admittedly abetted by the U.S. government, have scarred the political development of countries from Iran to Indonesia, and...
by Alexander H. Jones | Dec 31, 2020 | Politics |
Black North Carolinians long suffered from a case of unrequited support from the politicians who presumed to speak for them. Even as far back as 1952, former Governor Kerr Scott was courting African American voters in a primary with a conservative, segregationist...
by Alexander H. Jones | Dec 22, 2020 | Politics |
There have been many New Souths. The first was a fraud, a marketing strategy devised by Bourbon Democrats to present a regressing society as a dynamic destination for investment. Over a century later, we began to hear about how air conditioning and the Civil Rights...
by Alexander H. Jones | Dec 3, 2020 | Politics |
North Carolina Republicans seem to be feeling confident. The 2010’s were all in all a fine decade for the GOP, particularly at the federal level, where they were almost dominant. That record of success, in addition to the availability of an open seat, will...
