Governor Stein and the arrival of a new North Carolina
Stein's forceful progressive politics have proven how our state has left its stubborn backwardness many years in the past. Read More
NC SPIN Posts by Alexander H. Jones
Who should Democrats nominate in 2028?
Democrats candidates have tended to reflect, professionally and ideologically, the preferences of elite actors in politics and academia who despise populists and wish to reassert control of the political system by credentialed administrators. Read More
Cultural aggression from the right
Conservatives across America have taken to a self-image as warriors engaged in a desperate battle to keep their way of life intact amidst an onslaught of cultural aggression. Read More
Can NC Republicans win Governors' races anymore
The GOP was a moderate, business-oriented party, but they exchanged that pragmatism for a right-wing zeal. Read More
The Republican grievance is gutting the executive branch
The Republican legislative assault on democracy has been far broader, and far more comprehensive, than any of the isolated abuses Democrats committed in the ‘80s and ‘90s. Read More
Phil Berger, King of North Carolina
Berger came into office angry and has taken it out on basically everyone else, becoming essentially a one-man empire. Read More
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
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
