Donald Trump took his patented brand of charm and empathy down to North Carolina to connect with local residents there in the wake of Hurricane Florence, which has killed at least 37 people.
The fall from power is never short, and it’s rarely graceful.
Update, Sunday, 4:20 p.m.: Florence may have been downgraded to a tropical depression overnight, but its winds, driving rain, and widespread flooding have continued to devastate the Carolinas.
By early Friday morning, Hurricane Florence was already beginning to leave destruction in its wake. As of 2:30 a.m., there was intense flooding in New Bern, N.C., as 150 people awaited rescue, and over 180,000 people in the region were without power, according to the Washington Post. A local TV station was also forced…
North Carolina legislators were ordered to redraw their Congressional districts in February 2016 after it was found by a federal court that two of the districts were racially gerrymandered. These new districts were found by federal judges to be unconstitutional in January of this year, but in June the Supreme Court …
Almost a year to the day after a Durham, NC statue honoring Confederate soldiers was torn down by protesters, another racist monument bites the dust. Silent Sam—a Confederate monument on the University of North Carolina campus in Chapel Hill that became a flash point after the Charlottesville protests last year—was…
Norma Rae was a lie.
Last Thursday, Thomas Hofeller died of cancer at the age of 75. In the headline of its obituary this weekend, The Hill called Hofeller a “pioneer of modern redistricting.” This is a very peculiar way to describe a man whose crowning professional achievement was diluting the black vote in a former Jim Crow state.
In a span of less than 14 hours on Monday, the West Virginia House of Representatives impeached all four of the justices on the state’s Supreme Court of Appeals, the highest court in the state.
In a field indistinguishable from the thousands that blanketed the North Carolina countryside, a bead of sweat dripped from O.C. Martin’s chin.
Here is a phrase that is never used to describe good people: a product of their time.
Steve Von Loor is the Republican nominee for Congress in North Carolina’s 4th Congressional District. He also has a history of allegations of domestic violence against his ex-wife.
A North Carolina Republican candidate thinks “God is a racist” white supremacist and Jews are descended from Satan. And he still won the primary election.
The North Carolina Republican Party has held a stranglehold over the state’s government since 2011, when it rode a Republican wave into office, at which point it immediately got to work cementing permanent legislative majorities. It hasn’t always been successful; in recent years, its voter disenfranchisement efforts…
The ACLU of North Carolina, the Southern Poverty Law Center, and the Southern Coalition for Social Justice have slapped the state of North Carolina with a federal lawsuit over the state’s practice of suspending drivers’ licenses over unpaid tickets.
A derecho of red shirts swept through Raleigh, N.C., on Wednesday as thousands of teachers and their allies flooded the capitol, in defiance of the pouring rain, to demand better conditions in their state’s public schools.
Former North Carolina governor Pat McCrory, who was bounced out of office in 2016 after signing the nation’s most aggressively transphobic law, has some thoughts about all of the black people running Charlotte.
A dental center in Raleigh, NC, has scrambled to apologize after publishing an incredibly racially insensitive ad for its teeth-cleaning services in a local magazine.
Tuesday night saw primary elections in four different states. The biggest surprise was in how few surprises there were; for one night at least, the establishment wings of both parties got what they wanted.
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