by Byron Williams | Jan 22, 2018 | Features, Politics
Politically, 2017 was a head-scratching tour de force of bewilderment and unpredictability. There is no historical presidency that can be compared to that of Donald J. Trump. The question going into his second year: Is Trump an aberration or has he permanently...
by Alexander H. Jones | Jan 22, 2018 | Features, Politics |
A federal employee awakes on January 19, 2018 and turns on the TV to see pundits chattering about his livelihood. The government has shut down. His paycheck has been cancelled. His life is about to get a lot more stressful and expensive. And the political class treats...
by Alexander H. Jones | Jan 15, 2018 | Features, Politics
It is an irony of politics that the courts defend us against right-wing aggression, but only the aggressors care about the courts. Liberals have neglected the judiciary, ceding ground to those who would bend the law to regressive ends. This imbalance has given the...
by Janet Colm | Jan 12, 2018 | Demographic Trends, Features, National Politics, NC Politics |
This post was originally published by Janet Colm on WomenAdvanceNC.org on January 10, 2018. If you caught Oprah’s amazing speech at the Golden Globes, you might be one of those jumping on the Oprah For President bandwagon. Regardless of how you feel about that, one...
by Kirk Kovach | Jan 11, 2018 | Features, NC Politics, The Kovach Corner |
We are just days removed from the decision of federal judges to, yet again, condemn the congressional maps in North Carolina, and the partisan spin is in full effect. Part of the trouble that got Republicans into this mess is their own pomposity. Having succeeded in...
by Alexander H. Jones | Jan 9, 2018 | Features, Politics |
The abuse of power is ultimately the abuse of people. Power without a subservient party is merely a gesture. And so the harnessing of power to ill will is an infliction of harm upon one’s fellow people. When one endowed with authority uses that strength to bad...
