by Alexander H. Jones | Jul 27, 2021 | Politics |
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...
by Alexander H. Jones | Jul 26, 2021 | Politics |
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...
by Alexander H. Jones | Jul 22, 2021 | Politics |
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...
by Alexander H. Jones | Jul 21, 2021 | Politics |
The valley of humility is about to become an abyss. Over a century ago, a Charlotte newspaperman contrasted North Carolina with its more aristocratic neighbors to the north and South, calling Virginia and South Carolina mountains of conceit and saying that N.C....
by Alexander H. Jones | Jul 19, 2021 | Politics |
When UNC announced its hire of Nikole Hannah-Jones, my first response was not excitement but “well, let’s hope for the best.” For anyone who had followed the antics of UNC’s political overseers since 2011 could tell that a smooth implementation...
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