How Senate Republicans Shattered a Citadel and Liberated Trump

Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton has carved out a unique niche in the landscape of Trump-era conservatism: the intellectual bomb-thrower. A Harvard graduate and former fellow at the esteemed Claremont Institute, he has developed a split persona as right-wing policy thinker...

Since the boiling cauldron of the 1960's reawakened an assertive religiously conservative faction, social conservatism has played a potent role in North Carolina and American politics. Politicians such as Jesse Helms, Richard Nixon and George W. Bush rode socially...

“South Pacific” opened in 1949 and became one of Broadway’s longest running hits. It features Nellie Forbush, a Navy nurse from rural Arkansas stationed on a South Pacific island who falls in love with a sophisticated French planter, Emile De Becque. She rejects his...

It’s ironic that during one of the prettiest springs North Carolina has had in years, COVID-19 is wreaking havoc in our state. A million people are out of work and hundreds are dead. “Normal” is a half-forgotten memory, and we’re calling into question what new...

The growing push to remove monuments to the Confederacy has metastasized to statues of Christopher Columbus. Protesters in Richmond and Minneapolis toppled statues of the Genoa explorer, and a monument to him in Boston was beheaded. The beheading, in my view, was the...

On a lonely North Carolina highway bordered by soybean fields and rusting tobacco sheds, the Sons of Confederate Veterans put up a billboard. "Save your family history!" it exclaims over a picture of the Confederate Battle Flag. In the real world, that blood soaked...

It took only 12 years after the founding of Jamestown for the South to take a sip form the poisoned chalice of white supremacy. The region, like much of the Soviet empire, was literally built by slave labor. And one year removed from the 400th anniversary of the...

After years of anticipation, the 2020 campaign season is finally underway. Democrats and Republicans in North Carolina have selected their nominees for the general election, and the dynamics of each race are beginning to take shape. At present, the state of the races...