by Alexander H. Jones | May 5, 2021 | Politics
ShareHappenings at the University of North Carolina have always been intertwined with the civic life of our state. Chapel Hill is not an ivory tower, as generations of critics have inadvertently recognized. In that spirit I condemn the vandalism targeted at Carolina...
by Alexander H. Jones | May 4, 2021 | Politics
ShareIt’s remarkable now, but Pat McCrory once won elections with ease. For 14 years as Charlotte mayor, the Republican cruised through general elections in what was gradually becoming a Democratic city. He was popular and considered a choice prospect for...
by Alexander H. Jones | Apr 22, 2021 | Politics
ShareThe days of America’s old socially conservative consensus are gone. In place of the evangelical, patriarchal synthesis that ruled American culture for much of the Reagan era has emerged a new and decidedly tolerant ethos manifested in broad support for...
by Alexander H. Jones | Apr 15, 2021 | Politics
SharePat McCrory has run for statewide office three times in the last 13 years and lost two of those races. He has been the national face of transphobia, a pariah in his hometown, and a dismissed, disrespected figure within his own state party despite having been at...
by Alexander H. Jones | Apr 14, 2021 | Politics
ShareToday, Pat McCrory announced his candidacy for United States Senate in 2022. In our eight-year history of writing about North Carolina politics, PoliticsNC has covered Pat McCrory from a variety of angles. Here are a few of our most memorable pieces. On...
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