by Alexander H. Jones | Feb 25, 2021 | Politics
ShareSenate Republicans are out to defeat more cabinet members than is customary for an incoming administration. Generally their objections have centered on accusations, specious and hypocritical, that Biden’s nominees exhibit too much partisanship–this...
by Alexander H. Jones | Feb 22, 2021 | Politics
ShareWith so many subdivisions and shopping malls sprouting up across North Carolina, it can be hard to appreciate just how old this state is. People first began inhabiting the future North Carolina 12,000 years ago. Europeans first made contact with the state nearly...
by Alexander H. Jones | Feb 15, 2021 | Politics
ShareThe New York Times ran a largely speculative piece this morning that explored whether Lara Trump, political novice and daughter-in-law of disgraced, defeated former President Donald J. Trump, will descend upon North Carolina for a Senate campaign. The dilettante...
by Alexander H. Jones | Feb 12, 2021 | Politics
ShareThe Victorian era is remembered, with justification, as a time of stringent patriarchy. Men went to work in the growing industrial world while women were kept, strictly and under the dominion of their husbands, in the “second sphere” of family and...
by Alexander H. Jones | Feb 10, 2021 | Politics
ShareWhen Governor Bev Perdue took office after winning election by about three points, observers widely considered her to have a “weak mandate.” Never mind that she had outperformed Barack Obama, the first Democratic presidential candidate to carry North...
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