by Alexander H. Jones | Apr 6, 2022 | Politics |
If the U.S. government could fund turnpikes and canals, observed North Carolinian Nathaniel Macon, it could also free the slaves. More than any other factor, fear for the future of chattel slavery was the motivating force behind limited-government theory in America....
by Alexander H. Jones | Apr 4, 2022 | Politics |
The fierce battle between Governor Roy Cooper and his rivals in the General Assembly seems, at least on some issues, to have been supplanted by a grudging truce. Cooper and Senate chief Phil Berger still part company on nearly every issue of significance to North...
by Alexander H. Jones | Mar 28, 2022 | Politics
In 1898, Senator “Pitchfork” Ben Tillman of South Carolina urged a mob of white North Carolinians to murder a Black man and make him “food for the catfish at the bottom of the Cape Fear River.” Those North Carolinians wheeled a Gatling gun into...
by Thomas Mills | Mar 25, 2022 | Editor's Blog, Politics |
Yesterday, we learned that one of Mark Meadows pen pals during the January 6 assault on the Capitol was Ginni Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. The Washington Post got copies of 29 texts that show Thomas and Meadows were determined to...
by Alexander H. Jones | Mar 25, 2022 | Politics
North Carolina’s only two-term Republican governor, James G. Martin, endorsed Governor John Kasich for president in 2016. Martin had the clairvoyance to recognize Kasich as one of the few remaining Republicans with a tie to the genteel tradition of business...
by Thomas Mills | Mar 24, 2022 | Editor's Blog, Politics |
Yesterday was a bad day for those Republicans who want to diversify their party. After the way GOP members of the Senate Judiciary committee treated Ketanji Brown Jackson, Republicans have lost Black women for another 25 years. And the NC GOP’s rising African American...
