by Alexander H. Jones | Apr 25, 2023 | Politics |
“Lessons from North Carolina” is a phrase that in a recent political context seems unlikely to be edifying. After all, the last 12 years have seen our state transmogrify into an exemplar of modern-day retrogression. But somehow Gene Nichol has managed to...
by Thomas Mills | Apr 21, 2023 | Editor's Blog, Politics |
For years, I spent several weeks every summer in Minneapolis. In 2019, the city was in the midst of the divisive 2040 campaign. Housing advocates proposed a plan to eliminate single-family zoning in the city as rent and housing prices were driving people further and...
by Alexander H. Jones | Apr 20, 2023 | Politics |
Jesse Helms never lacked pariahs to demonize. Building a political career when the legacy of segregation echoed powerfully in North Carolina, Helms promoted various Black political figures as villains in the drama of American politics. In 1984, he released dozens of...
by Alexander H. Jones | Apr 14, 2023 | Politics |
Ronald Reagan’s “Evil Empire” speech had little to do with the Soviet Union. Delivered to the National Association of Evangelicals, the bulk of Reagan’s address was a feast of red meat for the Republican base’s 1980s fixations: drugs,...
by Thomas Mills | Apr 14, 2023 | Editor's Blog, Politics |
Republicans seem to be trying to define themselves as the party of extremes. In state after state, they pass abortion bans that will almost certainly drive a wedge between them and women voters, especially young ones. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis probably just sunk...
by Thomas Mills | Apr 10, 2023 | Editor's Blog, Politics |
When Tennessee Republicans expelled two legislators from the Tennessee House of Representatives, they laid bare the problem of having a monolithic party. They claim that the actions were about protocol, not race, but the specter of an all-White body punishing two...
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