by William Shaw | Aug 18, 2020 | Features, History, Politics, Trump |
On March 2, 1805, a little more than a year after he killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel, Vice-President Aaron Burr departed the capitol extolling the U.S. Senate in elegiac terms. He called it “a sanctuary; a citadel of law, of order, and of liberty; and it is here –...
by Alexander H. Jones | Aug 13, 2020 | Features, Politics
North Carolina’s progress between 1960 and 2010 was often uneven, imperfect and insufficient, but it was nevertheless impressive. The state went from having some of the lowest wages and worst educational attainment in the country to being what was widely...
by Alexander H. Jones | Aug 11, 2020 | Features, Politics
At the outset of the modern era of North Carolina politics, the state was only 10% urban. Even that statistic overstates the degree of urbanization in early-20th-century North Carolina. The Census Bureau defined “urban” as a jurisdiction in which lived...
by William Shaw | Aug 4, 2020 | Features, Politics |
The dumpster fire was lit early when White House strategists ballyhooed Trump’s plan to “deconstruct the administrative state.” The plan propagated the dissolution of the tax system, business and environmental regulations, trade pacts, and immigration policies that...
by Alexander H. Jones | Jul 29, 2020 | Features, Politics |
In the collective hagiography of conservative memory, 1984 is remembered as a high point. The Reagan landslide served as a resounding vindication of movement conservatism. It was the fulcrum point of a decade of right-of-center dominance. As in the nation, so in North...
by Alexander H. Jones | Jul 28, 2020 | Features, Politics |
For a state that has long viewed itself as more tolerant than the Deep South, North Carolina has had a remarkably persistent relationship with America’s most notorious racial terror group. The Ku Klux Klan planted roots in the state early, committed some of its...
