by Alexander H. Jones | Jul 26, 2021 | Politics
ShareThe 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...
by Alexander H. Jones | Jul 22, 2021 | Politics
ShareFor 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...
by Alexander H. Jones | Jul 21, 2021 | Politics
ShareThe 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
ShareWhen 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...
by Alexander H. Jones | Jul 16, 2021 | Politics
ShareFor the first time in what felt like ages, state Senate President Pro Tem Phil Berger said something entirely reasonable. “Children must learn about our state’s racial past and all its ugliness, including the cruelty of slavery to the 1898 Wilmington...
by Alexander H. Jones | Jul 14, 2021 | Politics
ShareWhat did Donald Rumsfeld have in common with Randall Ramsey? Not much on the surface of things, one being a two-time Secretary of Defense and the other a provincial boat salesman who may need some introduction even to the well informed readers of this blog. But...
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