As the founder of one of North Carolina’s largest companies, James Edgar Broyhill helped build high-quality, durable furniture. His son James Thomas Broyhill, who died February 18 at the age of 95, helped build something just as lasting: the North Carolina Republican Party. For most of the elder Broyhill’s lifetime, the GOP was a minor...
This year’s U.S. Senate race in North Carolina is shaping up to be a highly competitive and expensive one — which should surprise no one who’s lived in our state or watched our politics for more than an instant. The John Locke Foundation’s just-released Civitas Poll has the Republican nominee, U.S. Rep. Ted Budd, and...
Political conservatism, say its critics, is less a rational movement to shape the future than an irrational impulse to flee the present. Historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr. famously called it “the politics of nostalgia.” In reality, the temptation to romanticize the past is evident across the ideological spectrum. Politicians, activists, and intellectuals often wax nostalgic about...
In a free society, government can’t just tell people to shut up. Nor can government divide private organizations into categories, allowing some but not others to spend money on politics.
Democrats and Republicans will contest many states and districts in 2020, to be sure, but North Carolina may prove to be a tipping point in more ways than one.
Seniority isn’t the only pathway to influence in Washington. The two congressional Marks from North Carolina, Walker and Meadows, exemplify this development.
Of all the senators elected in North Carolina since 1972, in fact, only two — Richard Burr and Jesse Helms — have served more than a single term.
Political mavericks play a useful role even when they don’t ultimately persuade the majority to vote their way.
Terry Stoops on the Common Core standards; attorneys argue both sides of the ACC case against University of Maryland; Ted Cruz praises Jesse Helms; Lee Craig on Josephus Daniels; Roy Cordato on next steps in N.C. tax reform
In September 1983, Jesse Helms' political organization sent out a fundraising letter that warned Jim Martin wouldn’t be electable in a statewide race.
Jon Sanders on payday lending; Darrell Allison on expanding choices in education; legislators on ideas to save money on state motor fleet; John Dodd on great Helms speeches; Roy Cordato on economic myths about renewable energy.
