Hispanics did it

"We support equal opportunity, not equal outcomes," North Carolina Republicans like to say. What they really mean is that they support school vouchers and charter schools, not a social safety net. It's that simple. But rather than dismiss their protestations as empty...

To a naive soul, it might seem that Madison Cawthorn fears for his reelection. The Western North Carolina showman was recently down in Florida attending a fundraiser in his own honor to which donors must have contributed $50,000 for the privilege of seeing him in the...

In a country where conservatives have long been suspicious of centralized institutions, the military has been a bastion of trust. Going to war for America is considered the apogee of loyalty, courage, and virtue, so when our armed forces make a foray into new cultural...

For 30 years, Jesse Helms loomed over North Carolina politics like a Confederate statue. "Senator No" tied with his fellow racist demagogue Furnifold Simmons for the longest tenure of any Senator elected from the Old North State. Since he departed the scene, only...

Right-wing media increasingly resemble Pravda, the Soviet state newspaper that propagandized on behalf of the regime for decades no matter how much oppression and destruction the Kremlin inflicted on people across the globe. Donald Trump, anyone can see, is a...

The sense that North Carolina had entered a new era in 2008 was intoxicating, like drinking a magic elixir in one gulp. The Obama campaign had built momentum month by month, reaching a crescendo of excitement in the last weeks of the campaign, and what looked like a...

For all their struggles in subsequent years, North Carolina Democrats still haven't felt the depths of futility that pervaded the party in the wake of the 2012 election. As I recently said to a colleague, the Donkey Party could not even afford to hold a full banquet...