President Joe Biden has announced that he will not seek re-election in November.election, saying it was not in the "best interest" of the Democratic Party and the country. North Carolina Roy Cooper is being floated for a new party ticket.
[Editor’s note: This story is part of “Cracks and Fissures,” a Carolina Journal series of articles about the implications for North Carolinians of the coverage gap between people eligible for Medicare or Medicaid and those with private health insurance. Gov. Roy Cooper is pushing expansion of Medicaid to cover the working poor but the GOP...
Gov. Roy Cooper unveiled a $24.5 billion state General Fund budget for 2018-19 that freezes scheduled drops in corporate and some personal income tax rates. He took swings at the Republican leadership for its smaller $23.9 billion budget — one he says won’t meet public needs. He said his budget ensures income tax cuts “truly...
As a recent CNN report on the Tea Party movement shows, the rules of journalism have changed in the past 30 years, and not for the better.
ASHEVILLE — The American political scene has some serious problems, according to Cal Thomas, Fox News analyst and one of America’s most widely read syndicated columnists. Thomas shared his concerns about American politics with a John Locke Foundation Headliner audience late in 2008. He also discussed that topic with Mitch Kokai for Carolina Journal Radio.
Who holds the better trump card in the battle between the female candidate and the minority candidate? It's a question for the theatrical stage.
Many folks in public life — and not a few in private life — get into the worst sort of trouble by talking when they shouldn’t and not talking when they should. Take former lottery commissioner Kevin Geddings.
The presidential effort of NC's John Edwards has yet to gain momentum, with recent events likely to worsen rather than strengthen his chances.
As America's war on terrorists abroad continues successfully, a former head of a domestic terrorist organization spoke at Duke University to an apparently receptive crowd.
