by Alexander H. Jones | Feb 15, 2022 | Politics |
In the early 1960s, parents in the roiling conservative hotbed of Orange County, California, took aim at a history textbook. The text, written by the legendary historian John Hope Franklin, allegedly took too dim a view of the American past, and therefore had to be...
by Alexander H. Jones | Feb 14, 2022 | Politics |
The last five North Carolina elections have been decided by 2%, 1.5%, 3.7%, 2%, and 1.3%. That record of narrow electoral decisions should mark the Tar Heel state as one of the purplest states in the nation. But the following factor complicates that conclusion:...
by Alexander H. Jones | Feb 10, 2022 | Politics |
The guts of the college admissions process are distasteful. Whatever else may be said of the exchange between UNC admissions officers revealed in the pending case on that university’s race-conscious admissions policies, crudely reducing a young person’s...
by Alexander H. Jones | Feb 9, 2022 | Politics |
Jubilant at holding the reigns of power, North Carolina Republicans’ loonier members claimed the right to nullify Supreme Court decisions. A Trump presidency later, such hostility has given way to a supreme confidence that the Court will act as a Republican...
by Alexander H. Jones | Feb 7, 2022 | Politics
Republicans have gloated over political science findings that their voter ID laws have not cratered Black turnout. This, they claim, is evidence of their party’s racial innocence. Let’s interrogate that assumption a bit. It doesn’t hold up given that...
by Alexander H. Jones | Feb 2, 2022 | Politics |
“The state of the public mind in North Carolina is a mystery to us,” declared a perplexed President Thomas Jefferson. Like observers today, Jefferson saw a state whose public life was hard to parse and harder to pigeonhole into the prescribed categories of...
