by Alexander H. Jones | Sep 22, 2021 | Politics |
The story America told about itself for the first few hundred years went a little like this. Persecuted in their homelands, brave settlers (it went without mentioning that they white) departed Europe for what F. Scott Fitzgerald called the “fresh green breast of...
by Alexander H. Jones | Sep 21, 2021 | Politics |
Two politicians of diametrically opposite character have utilized the same, populist slogan: Drain the Swamp. Then-House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi popularized the phrase in her party’s 2006 drive for a Congressional majority. A decade later, her...
by Alexander H. Jones | Sep 20, 2021 | Politics |
Immigration polling is complicated, but one kernel of public opinion that shines through in nearly every survey is that Americans support a pathway to citizenship for unauthorized immigrants. This position has held throughout the decades in which our political system...
by Alexander H. Jones | Sep 16, 2021 | Politics |
Racial division is the most successful political tactic in history. The very notion of race was created by the European elite in the early stages of the Industrial Revolution to fuse white mill workers with their Caucasian employers, thus preventing a union of...
by Alexander H. Jones | Sep 15, 2021 | Politics |
The draconian laws spilling out of Texas’s state legislature must have caused rumblings in corporate boardrooms. Economically, Texas is a state that cannot be ignored. It has the tenth-largest economy in the world and one in five Fortune 500 companies. At the...
by Alexander H. Jones | Sep 14, 2021 | Politics |
At the height of his cultural influence, Woody Guthrie took an interest in a tiny North Carolina mountain town. In his ballad “The Marion Massacre,” Guthrie sang, ‘Twas in Marion, North Carolina, in a little mountain town; six workers of the textile,...
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