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 Thomas Mills | Apr 26, 2021 | Editor's Blog, Immigration
ShareJoe Biden is enjoying strong approval ratings as he approaches the end of his first 100 days in office. He has broad support for his approach to the most pressing issues, the economy and the pandemic. The one place he has problems is immigration. Voters want...
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 Thomas Mills | Apr 21, 2021 | Editor's Blog, History
ShareGeorge Floyd’s death came in the midst of a pandemic when months of lockdown left tensions high and nerves frayed. Just weeks before, the world learned of the killing of unarmed Ahmaud Arbery by three White men in Georgia. The video of Derek Chauvin kneeling on...
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...
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