Race and deaths of despair
The star of the Trump era was the White working class. In particular, the media focused on the crisis of White working class men. They were dying at alarming rates, so much so that their life expectancy decreased. They were dying from what became dubbed “deaths of...
Propaganda and Republican hypocrisy
Republican Twitter pundits are all aghast at WRAL owner Jim Goodmon’s Martin Luther King, Jr. Day speech in Rocky Mount. Goodmon criticized Republicans for failing our schools, extreme gerrymandering, and leaving so many North Carolinians without medical coverage in...
A Fundamental Failure of Governance Thanks to Manchin and Sinema
The Democratic Party is the only major political party in the United States that still believes representative democracy should prevail in a multi-racial society. Democrats represent communities that have long suffered exclusion from the democratic process and have a...
Moving Primary target
Republicans in the Senate are voting today to delay the primary yet again. They’re making plans to ensure that they can redraw legislative and Congressional districts in the event that the Supreme Court finds their districts unconstitutional. The current schedule...
Dispatches from the Endangered Southern Democracy
Six decades after Jim Crow crumbled, a significant portion of the South's white population has not accepted racial equality. In fact, these reactionaries are in the midst of an effort to restore an ersatz version of the White Man's Republic by handicapping Black...
The GOP’s War on the Independent Judiciary is Part of Their Authoritarian Push
The North Carolina Republican Legislature did not expand the state Supreme Court in order to nullify the results of the 2016 judicial elections. That's about the only attack on the independent judiciary that they have restrained themselves from pursuing. In almost...
Just move on
On the eve of the Martin Luther King Holiday, Virginia’s new governor, Glenn Youngkin, signed an executive order banning schools from teaching Critical Race Theory. He told Fox News, "But to actually teach our children that one group is advantaged and the...
New Poll Presents A Compelling, Alarming Picture of the NCGOP
From time to time it is important to peruse a statistical portrait of the nation's politics. Politics cannot be reduced to a science, at least not yet; it is too raw and human for perfect quantification. But we need data to debunk false popular impression and partisan...
Narrow majorities and massive ambitions
Wall Street Journal columnist and former Bush speechwriter Peggy Noonan wrote a piece this week blistering Joe Biden for his voting rights speech in Georgia. She called it a “breaking point” that would unify support against Biden. Noonan cited Mitch...
The Decline and Fall of Mark Walker
Odd though it now seems, Congressman Mark Walker once appeared to be a savvy politician. He was a former preacher and strong social conservative who presumably could attract the support of North Carolina's many white evangelical Christians, but, at the same time, he...
NC-06 Primary is a Ray of Hope for North Carolina
"The heart and soul of North Carolina's industrial future is the Research Triangle," said former Governor Luther Hodges. Hodges and several heavy-hitting Triad businessmen had the audacity to form a high-tech research park in the patch of hardwood forest lying in a...
Clay Aiken Adds to a Strong Field in NC-06
Earlier today, singer and former American Idol star Clay Aiken tossed his hat into the ring for North Carolina's Sixth Congressional District. Aiken, a Raleigh native and UNC-Charlotte graduate, had previously run against Renee Ellmers in a far more conservative...
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