by Alexander H. Jones | Jul 14, 2021 | Politics |
What 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...
by Alexander H. Jones | Jul 13, 2021 | Politics |
A new report from the research and advocacy group Carolina Forward shines a light on one of North Carolina’s greatest failures: the failure to support hourly workers. In clear, fast-paced prose supplemented by graphics and charts, Carolina Forward runs through...
by Alexander H. Jones | Jul 12, 2021 | Politics |
At least Cornelius Vanderbilt endowed a university. The quintessential 19th-century robber baron otherwise concerned himself with sweet-talking congress for aid to his railroads and indulging in luxuries that would seem outlandish to the thousands living in tenements...
by Alexander H. Jones | Jul 9, 2021 | Politics |
History’s burden is particularly heavy in America’s Southern states. You could even say that the Old Confederacy is haunted by what its white people have done to its Black people, by the legacy of a slave society never fully redeemed. The state of North...
by Thomas Mills | Jul 9, 2021 | Editor's Blog, Politics |
When the UNC Board of Trustees initially refused to consider tenure for Nikole Hannah-Jones, they laid bare the GOP’s tendency to politicize our university system. They ignored historical precedent and they rejected the recommendations of the faculty and...
by Alexander H. Jones | Jul 8, 2021 | Politics |
Things are rather dismal in the Tar Heel state right now. UNC supporters find themselves watching Chapel Hill implode to the gleeful satisfaction of a reactionary legislature. That same legislature stands poised to pass a budget which offers a trivial raise to...
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