by Thomas Mills | May 12, 2023 | Politics |
The special election in Wisconsin that gave Democrats a majority on their state supreme court offered Democrats in North Carolina some lessons. While access to abortion was the driving force, the overall extremism of the GOP broadened the reach of their message. The...
by Alexander H. Jones | May 10, 2023 | Politics |
For a male-dominated institution that rejected women’s suffrage and voted against the Equal Rights Amendment four ties, the North Carolina General Assembly did…exactly what one would have expected them to do. Fulfilling the inevitable, the white Republican...
by Alexander H. Jones | May 2, 2023 | Politics |
North Carolina has faded into the second tier of American political attention. Since its Obama-era heyday, the Tar Heel State has voted Republican too consistently to register as a marquee swing state, and most observers have shifted their gaze to the bluer states of...
by Alexander H. Jones | Apr 25, 2023 | Politics |
“Lessons from North Carolina” is a phrase that in a recent political context seems unlikely to be edifying. After all, the last 12 years have seen our state transmogrify into an exemplar of modern-day retrogression. But somehow Gene Nichol has managed to...
by Thomas Mills | Apr 21, 2023 | Editor's Blog, Politics |
For years, I spent several weeks every summer in Minneapolis. In 2019, the city was in the midst of the divisive 2040 campaign. Housing advocates proposed a plan to eliminate single-family zoning in the city as rent and housing prices were driving people further and...
by Alexander H. Jones | Apr 20, 2023 | Politics |
Jesse Helms never lacked pariahs to demonize. Building a political career when the legacy of segregation echoed powerfully in North Carolina, Helms promoted various Black political figures as villains in the drama of American politics. In 1984, he released dozens of...
