A global pandemic ripping through the United States is not deterring American voters.
More than 91 million have cast their ballots, putting the country on pace to produce the highest voter turnout since 1908.
But this doesn't...
This past spring, while COVID-19 ripped through mostly Democratic states like New York, Washington, and New Jersey, the American South had yet to feel its full brunt.
Later that season, though, into the summer, everything began...
A month ago, as New York became the national coronavirus/COVID-19 epicenter, many were hailing Gov. Andrew Cuomo as a hero.
Looking and sounding far more of a leader at his daily press briefings than Donald Trump,...
Fortunately, the violence Donald Trump threatened when faced with the possibility of losing control of the House of Representatives in the mid-term elections did not come to fruition.
But the absence of riots and bloodshed does...
This week, as the East Coast was preparing for Hurricane Florence, the federal government was prioritizing all available resources to successfully address the storm's aftermath.
Just kidding.
Actually, as the East Coast was preparing for Hurricane Florence, the...
There's a saying: "Not all Republicans are racists, but if someone is racist, he's probably a Republican."
While it would be unfair to stereotype all Republicans as racists, the GOP has not exactly been the party...
As Democrats begin to reclaim seats, and Republicans resign their positions like rats fleeing a sinking ship, it's looking as though the prospect of turning Congress back over the Democrats next year is increasingly likely.
Another good...
Some of the most disturbing accounts of alleged sexual harassment and sexual assault by Donald Trump come from several Miss USA and Miss Teen USA contestants who claim Trump frequently walked in on them while...
The purpose of the criminal-justice system is not to punish the guilty, but to protect the innocent. Apparently prison officials in North Carolina forgot that lesson. A former police officer in a Charlotte suburb was...
For the better part of two decades, fringe charismatic church in western North Carolina that has been under fire for abusive, controlling, and outright cultish tactics. However, it's only been recently that this church has...
![Robin Webster, left, at a fundraiser for North Carolina lieutenant governor Dan Forest, right (image courtesy The [Raleigh] News & Observer)](https://liberalamerica.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/forest_wordoffaith1-e1509301974719.jpg "Alleged Criminal Of A RWNJ Pastor Attends NC Lt. Governor Fundraiser (VIDEO/PHOTOS/TWEETS)")
In the seven years since North Carolina's Republican Party seized control of the state legislature, we in the Tar Heel State have been treated to some staggeringly tone-deaf behavior. But The (Raleigh) News & Observer...
According to the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), there are 917 active hate groups in America today, and there have been over 1,000 documented hate crime incidents since President Donald Trump's election.
One group lately reentering...
By now, you know that on Friday night, Richard Spencer and several of his racist, neo-Nazi, and white supremacist friends returned to Charlottesville for another Tiki torch rally. But what you may not know is...
The biggest story of the week that wasn't directly related to politics came from my Carolina Panthers.
On Wednesday, quarterback Cam Newton was taking questions after practice when The Charlotte Observer's Panthers beat reporter, Jourdan Rodrigue,...
When you think of crazy and stupid laws in North Carolina, most people usually think of House Bill 2, a monstrously discriminatory law that banned local governments from protecting their transgender residents from discrimination. That...
For almost a quarter-century, a fringe charismatic church in the North Carolina foothills has been under fire for abusive and cultish practices. But it took until this spring for someone to start peeling back the...
More than ten years ago, mainstream America got an introduction to just how fanatical the religious right can be with the release of "Jesus Camp," a documentary that showed how young kids are turned into...
There are many reasons why someone might suggest they should be chosen to serve a particular elected office. Experience dealing with the types of duties the office might entail, or bold new ideas for what...
To hear a number of elected officials in the former Confederacy talk, the furor over Confederate monuments is a lot of fuss over nothing. But a county commissioner in North Carolina may have inadvertently proven...
Lately, whenever Democrats have called for Confederate statues and monuments to be taken down, critics have harrumphed that those monuments were originally erected by Democrats--conveniently forgetting that those decisions were made in a time before...
