by Alexander H. Jones | Feb 8, 2021 | Politics
ShareTwo decades into the twenty-first century, the twentieth has begun to fade into memory. North Carolina politics has undergone two sea changes, one moving the state into the purple category and another, a mere two years later, dragging it far to the right. But for...
by Alexander H. Jones | Feb 4, 2021 | Politics
ShareIn real estate, a buyer who offers one third of the seller’s asking price is likely to get the door slammed in his face. President Joe Biden has not rejected Senate Republicans’ COVID-19 relief proposal with quite so dramatic a flourish, but he...
by Alexander H. Jones | Feb 3, 2021 | Politics
ShareWith a pandemic ravaging the state and thousands of unemployed people ill-served by a safety net his own party has shredded, Mark Robinson picked his issue. Earlier this week, the new lieutenant governor launched a petition to block the implementation of a...
by Alexander H. Jones | Feb 1, 2021 | Politics
ShareThe year 2014 saw the death of a tradition that had lasted longer than it had had any right to persist. That was the election in which the last of the moderate Southern Democratic senators lost their seats and the region became a wasteland for Democratic...
by Alexander H. Jones | Jan 28, 2021 | Politics
ShareIn the heat of the conservative backlash against Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal, North Carolina Senator Josiah Bailey had some thoughts on an anti-lynching bill. “The proposed lynching bill,” he asserted, “is the forerunner of a policy...
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