by Alexander H. Jones | Dec 15, 2021 | Politics |
North Carolina Congressional candidate Bo Hines released a campaign video flaunting his physicality. The piece showed him vigorously pumping iron and doing pullups in a gym bedecked with a prominently displayed Back the Blue flag. Over a background of rock music, a...
by Alexander H. Jones | Dec 14, 2021 | Politics |
Like an old Rebel shouting “Death to Lincoln!” on Confederate Memorial Day, Pat McCrory is still fighting the last battle. He’s running for U.S. Senate against Ted Budd, but in seemingly every interview he attempts to settle the score with Governor...
by Alexander H. Jones | Dec 8, 2021 | Politics |
“Power concedes nothing without a demand,” said Frederick Douglass. But sometimes power’s grasping hand curls into a fist, and delivers a searing blow of retaliation. That has been the pattern manifest in the push-and-pull of democratization in the...
by Alexander H. Jones | Dec 7, 2021 | Politics |
How does it feel, North Carolina, knowing that your next U.S. Senator will be partially determined by Madison Cawthorn and Mark Meadows? These two firebrands have the ear of former President Donald Trump, who, with his unquestioned command over the Republican Party,...
by Alexander H. Jones | Dec 6, 2021 | Politics |
With their cultural power in steady decline, the evangelical movement has shifted its efforts into the one arena of American life in which it still reigns supreme: politics. White, conservative evangelicals dominate the American political scene despite their minority...
by Alexander H. Jones | Nov 29, 2021 | Politics |
Nestled in a humid forest at the midpoint between the Appalachian Mountains and the mighty Atlantic, the Research Triangle of North Carolina has attracted migrants for decades. Raleigh’s growth has been particularly impressive: Between 2010-2020, the...
