by Alexander H. Jones | Dec 12, 2019 | Politics
Garland S. Tucker III, retired financier, think tank fellow, accomplished author and straight-backed Southern gentleman (except for the matter of Dick’s Last Resort), was an unlikely tribune of the people. According to the speculation of many, GOP consultant...
by Alexander H. Jones | Dec 5, 2019 | Politics
The North Carolina Republican party spent its birth and adolescence as a progressive force. Initially based in the Appalachian mountains, where hardy yeomen voted on antipathy to the state’s secessionist elite, it gained a foothold in urban areas as the 20th...
by Alexander H. Jones | Nov 25, 2019 | Politics
Republicans have spent eight years insisting that the plain truth about their education policies is a Democratic lie. A mind-bending cavalcade of twisted statistics pours forth to obfuscate the facts about a policy of harsh parsimony. As the 2019 legislative session...
by Alexander H. Jones | Nov 21, 2019 | Politics
Just over a decade ago, Rob Christensen set out to answer “how a state could be represented by John Edwards and Jesse Helms at the same time.” When his ensuing book was published, Edwards was a top-tier presidential contender, and Helms was basking in the...
by Alexander H. Jones | Nov 19, 2019 | Politics
Democrats continued to build momentum this month with victories in Kentucky and Louisiana. Both candidates for governor, the winning Democrats, Andy Beshear and John Bel Edwards, defeated their Republican opponents by running on centrist platforms. The elections tell...
