There are lots of important issues. One is more urgent than the rest.
Jeffrey C. Billman
Donald Trump Is a Small Man in a Big World
What Jackie Kennedy and the saga of the U.S.S. John McCain can teach us about the president of the United States.
North Carolina Shows Why Progressives Lost the Internet
Duke alumna Jen Schradie’s new book argues that conservative activists have an inherent digital advantage.
Donald Trump Says His Political Enemies Committed Treason. Imagine If We Took Him Seriously.
We dismiss him as clueless, and he is. But that doesn’t make him less dangerous.
Same-Sex Couple Allowed to Marry in N.C. Prison After All
The INDY first wrote about Amanda Marriner and Sandy Dowell, whose request to marry was being blocked by Neuse CI officials, last week.
You Can’t Compromise With Crazy
What Joe Biden gets wrong about American politics in 2020.
A Durham Woman Says a State Prison Is Blocking Her Gay Wedding
At Neuse CI, weddings are supposed to take “up to four months” to arrange. Amanda Marriner and Sandy Dowell have been waiting in November, with no end in sight.
Vivian Howard’s Attorney Told Dan Forest’s Campaign to Stop Suggesting Her Family Was Involved in His Fundraiser
For a $1,000 per couple, you can still mingle at Chef & The Farmer with the gubernatorial candidate who thinks “transgenderism is a feeling.”
Trump Is a Symptom, Not the Disease. Defeating Him Is Only the First Step.
He’s the culmination of a half-century of calculated cynicism that stoked racial resentment, and three decades of Fox News and talk-radio propaganda that laid the groundwork for an army of angry, aggrieved white men.

