UNC-Chapel Hill is Big Enough Already
Chancellor Roberts wants to increase undergraduate enrollment by contrasting North Carolina's robust growth and UNC's stagnant undergraduate growth. Read More
NC SPIN Posts by Alexander H. Jones
Thom Tillis doesn't stand a chance
Older voters, rural voters, and non-college-educated whites are exactly the people who will be voting in the Republican primary come '26. They detest establishment conservatives. Read More
Thom Tillis' second act
Tillis has the unique liability of being a very polarizing figure who is disdained by his own party’s base electorate. Read More
An election fueled by misogyny
It speaks to the profound deterioration of our civic culture that a state that has traditionally loved to elect women to statewide office now prefers a rapist to a female prosecutor on issues related to responsibility and public order. Read More
Trump and the White working class
Donald Trump has discovered a few critical insights into the demographic that accounts for his remarkable success in making working-class white people hardcore denizens of the Republican base. Read More
NC Democrats' future lies in the suburbs
Formerly the eastern part of the state consisted of yellow-dog Democrats but it has moved far to the right, giving Republican Dan Forest a plurality over Rocky Mount native Roy Cooper. Read More
The moral disintegration of the GOP
Despite years of accumulating evidence that this man had no business being governor, most North Carolina Republicans rallied around Mark Robinson as their party leader. Read More
Plundering the government in North Carolina
Leading legislators seem to be asking themselves, “What can I do to the government?” Read More
A reality check is need for North Carolina’s battered democracy
After 13 years of extreme partisan gerrymandering, those elections are, effectively and fully, rigged. Of the 170 state House districts, only eight—that is, 5%– are rated competitive by nonpartisan analysts. Read More
Jeff Jackson bridges younger generation gap
Jackson is much younger than his rivals but he has the ability to connect with younger voters as a real person. Read More
