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Mark Robinson is not fascinating

by Alexander H. Jones | Nov 29, 2022 | Politics | 3 comments

Few tropes in North Carolina political discourse annoy me more than the claim that Lieutenant Governor Mark Robinson is “fascinating.” In a state that elected Jesse Helms to five terms in the U.S. Senate, a political career fueled by bigotry hardly...

Panel Makes the Case that NC is Still a Purple STate

by Alexander H. Jones | Nov 27, 2022 | Politics | 0 comments

A rising force in state politics, Carolina Forward held a forum the Thursday after our last midterm election that yielded provocative insights about the state of North Carolina’s political field. (Full disclosure: I am a Carolina Forward contributor.) The central...

Thanks

by Thomas Mills | Nov 23, 2022 | Editor's Blog, Politics | 3 comments

This year, I’m thankful for the future Permanent Select Committee on Hunter Biden’s Laptop. Republicans are already getting themselves into a lather about another fake scandal that will keep their base outraged while alienating the rest of the country. They will...

Nobody Forces White Racists to be Racist

by Alexander H. Jones | Nov 16, 2022 | Politics | 1 comment

The preference for privilege over prosperity is a Southern pathology of age-old vintage. Race ideology came into play early in the region’s history, when white slavers persuaded the indentured servant class to identify with masters on the basis of skin color....

The Politics of Lost Entitlement

by Alexander H. Jones | Nov 7, 2022 | Politics | 1 comment

Human beings are not in the end all that different from a chimpanzee. They are ruthless and violent, tribal and jealous, and obsessed with their places in the pecking order. Would only that we were more like bonobos, the Chris Farley of the primate world. But...

The Caucasian Right Tried to Arrogate America

by Alexander H. Jones | Nov 5, 2022 | Politics | 0 comments

Was January 6th an act of desperation? No. The insurrectionary assault on the United States Capitol was the most targeted act of violence against the American state since the Confederate Army killed hundreds of thousands of American troops. Without granting any degree...