This will be the defining battle of the next six months—and maybe the next six decades.
Jeffrey C. Billman
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Ever Wonder Why Politics Seems Broken? Two UNC Professors Have an Answer. It’s Not Reassuring.
In their new book “Prius or Pickup?” Marc Hetherington and Jonathan Weiler explore how ingrained worldviews made our politics dysfunctional and led to Donald Trump.
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Vanity Fair Writer Possesses Superhuman Vision, Can See the Mountains From Chapel Hill
Also, UNC College Republicans are having trouble getting dates.
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Thomas Farr Isn’t Going to Be a Federal Court Judge After All
Jesse Helms’s favorite vote suppressor couldn’t get the votes
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For Decades, Thomas Farr Helped N.C. Republicans Suppress Black Votes. He’ll Probably Become a Federal Judge Anyway.
Even a casual look at Farr’s record shows he shouldn’t be allowed anywhere near the bench.
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Trump Wants You to Be Very Afraid of a “Very Dangerous World”
This is Authoritarianism 101, folks.
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Analysis: Thanks to Gerrymandering, N.C. Democrats Wasted 1.3 Million Votes
The state’s efficiency gap, a measure of gerrymandering, exceeded 27 percent this year, more than three times higher than what experts say it should be.
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The Triangle Just Dodged a Huge Bullet
We were ready to give away the store to land Amazon’s HQ2. Let’s never play this sucker’s game again.
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Common Cause, Democrats File Suit to Toss Out N.C. Legislative Districts Before 2020
Neither the timing of the lawsuit nor its venue—in state court, rather than federal—is coincidental.
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North Carolina Has a Democracy Problem
In North Carolina, Democrats got more votes. Republicans got more seats.
