by Kirk Kovach | Dec 16, 2017 | Features, Politics, The Kovach Corner |
Although the GOP had been clinging onto its razor-thin margin in the Senate, on Tuesday, that margin slipped to one. Doug Jones, the unlikely Democratic victor in ruby-red Alabama, beat all the odds against an incredibly flawed opponent and carried the state by just...
by Alexander H. Jones | Dec 12, 2017 | Features, Politics |
Liberalism has long had an ambivalent orientation toward work. The liberal sensibility recoils from judgment. This inclusive outlook cannot abide a division between industrious and idle citizens. As an alternative, liberals have preferred an ethic of social welfare....
by Alexander H. Jones | Dec 6, 2017 | Features, Politics |
I want to expand on a recent post by Rob Schofield. Schofield writes about the lamentable tenure of former DEQ Secretary Donald van der Vaart. He covers why van der Vaart was such a destructive force in North Carolina policy. But the former secretary’s story has...
by Alexander H. Jones | Dec 1, 2017 | Features, Politics |
It’s not just liberals who dislike the provisions of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. Thirty-five percent of conservative Republicans think we should raise corporate taxes. Less than half favor a corporate tax cut. Self-described moderate Republicans oppose regressive tax...
by Kirk Kovach | Nov 29, 2017 | 2018 elections, Democrats, Features, NC Politics, Politics, The Kovach Corner
Share This post was originally published November 8, 2017 at Carolina Political Review. Landslide. Wave. Tsunami. All of those phrases colored various interpretations of what happened in Virginia yesterday, but all convey the same sense: Democrats are back, in a big...
by Kirk Kovach | Oct 31, 2017 | Features, National Politics, Politics, The Kovach Corner |
Kirk Kovach is senior at UNC-Chapel Hill and is editor of the Carolina Political Review where this article was first published. For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? Thus is the plight of the Republican party. After...
