Rousing a sleeping giant
Why politicians of both parties may rue the awakening of North Carolina’s progressive movement There is a bit of mythology percolating through the mainstream news media these days that the Moral... Read More
NC SPIN Posts by Rob Schofield
Wall Street values on Jones Street
The moral decline of modern capitalism infects North Carolina state government There are lots of insidious ways in which the unfettered greed and inequality of 21st capitalism are infecting and... Read More
Political climate change?
It’s been several months since the North Carolina General Assembly adjourned the 2013 long session last July and there’s no mistaking the altered vibe that now pervades the state capital. When... Read More
12 stories that made 2013 even worse than it already appears in your rearview mirror
There was a heck of a lot of bad public policy news in North Carolina in 2013. The disastrous decisions regarding Medicaid, unemployment insurance, school vouchers, reproductive rights, taxes, the... Read More
Doing it for our children and grandchildren
Just because it will take time is not a reason to avoid tackling the nation’s gun problem There is a distressing cycle in the national gun violence discussion that’s taking place in the aftermath... Read More
The path toward saner gun policies
What it will really take to reclaim the debate and “regulate the Militia” It’s been less than 96 hours since a pathetically troubled young man dipped into his mother’s arsenal of high-powered... Read More
Making Crime (And Mere Accusations Of It) Pay
Giant corporations rake in big money in the corrections and detention business It’s perhaps the ultimate irony of the modern move to downsize and privatize government that two of the major ills that... Read More
