Our state remains a key battleground
North Carolina and a small number of similarly situated states enjoy disproportionate attention from national media and disproportionate influence over national affairs. Read More
NC Spin Articles
How Campaign Finance Disclosure Can Help Us Be Better Citizens
In politics there are few more useful tools in the toolbox of democratic citizenship than those that allow us to follow the money. Read More
Cooperation evaporates, credibility gap widens, gerrymandering continues
Legislative leaders don’t care even broadly to reflect the will of North Carolinians. They only are interested in doing all they can to turn up the volume on their own partisan megaphones. Read More
NC House approves a new redistricting plan with some changes Democrats wanted, but the debate over new maps is not over
Democrats say the new maps don't address the districts the court said needed fixing. Read More
Freedom? U.S. dips to record low in global rankings
In the index of economic freedom the U.S. dropped to a historic low ranking. Read More
Bitcoin or lottery?
Not that either is a good investment but one is a significantly worse investment than the other. Read More
UNC would gain by losing
The evidence demonstrates that Chapel Hill systematically denies admission to some worthy students because the are the "wrong" color. Read More
Supreme Court redistricting order is confusing but possibly manageable
There are ways to demonstrate an unconstitutional partisan gerrymander. The court needs more specificity as to what "median maps" are. Read More
Is Madison Cawthorn getting hung out to dry?
None of the state's leading Republicans is challenging the lawsuit saying that Cawthorn's support for the insurrection makes him ineligible to serve in Congress Read More
When it comes to gerrymandering, there simply must be a limit
Our constitution delegates a host of issues to the legislature over which it has long been established that the courts must have the final say when it comes to conflicts with core constitutional rights. Read More
