Originally published in Indy Week. A FEW WEEKS AGO I STARTED READING Nixonland, Rick Perlstein’s 748-page social history of the 1960s and ’70s through the lens of Richard Nixon’s presidency. I’ve gotten most of the way through the book and have been reflecting on how we seem to have landed, once again, back in 1968. Back then, following […]
Democrats Make Gains in North Carolina Against Backdrop of Voter Suppression
Changing demographics, combined with the three-year effort by state Republicans to suppress minority and youth turnout, led to close races. Originally published in The American Prospect. BY 12:30 a.m. WEDNESDAY, THE RALEIGH where North Carolina Democrats had earlier been whooping in anticipation of a presidential victory had nearly emptied out. Stragglers were sitting on the […]
Equality Becomes a Talking Point in North Carolina Gubernatorial Race
With the state’s demographics and political makeup shifting, backlash against anti-LGBT law may help send Democrat Roy Cooper to the governor’s office. Originally published in The American Prospect. IAN PALMQUIST WAS RUNNING ERRANDS last Tuesday when the North Carolina gubernatorial debate came on the air. As the 39-year-old gay activist drove around Raleigh, listening to his […]
The Trump Show
A report from the Cleveland as North Carolina Republicans reckon with their party’s new leader. Originally published in Indy Week. Sunday night Before he left for the Republican National Convention, Bob Orr started reading William Shirer’s The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. He’d heard Donald Trump’s political ascent likened to that of Adolf Hitler. […]
Dispatches from the 2016 Republican National Convention
Originally published in Indy Week. RNC Day 1: “There Will Be an End to the Earth” RNC Day 2: “Hillary Is a Foreign Agent of the Communist Chinese!” RNC, Day 3: “National Security, Not National Benevolence” RNC Day 3: “Close Your Eyes and Take Some Soothing Breaths” RNC Day 4: “A Dog Park, But for Humans” RNC Day […]
Republican National Convention, Day 4: “Eat and Drink Them Out of Publication”
Originally published in Indy Week. LIKE EVERY DAY AT THE REPUBLICAN National Convention, this afternoon members of the North Carolina delegation are eating and drinking well. The social schedule is so heavy that state party director Dallas Woodhouse called it “the Bataan death march.” Today’s gathering is being held at Crop On Air Studio, an […]
Republican National Convention, Day 4: “A Dog Park, But for Humans”
Originally published in Indy Week. I PULLED UP TO CLEVELAND’S KIRTLAND PARK at 11 p.m. Tuesday night. It’s in an industrial corner of the city, where old brick structures sprout vegetation and “for lease” signs—a narrow band of green sandwiched between the railroad tracks and Interstate 90, populated by a family of skunks. “Broken glass […]
Republican National Convention, Day 3: “Close Your Eyes and Take Some Soothing Breaths”
Originally published in Indy Week. IF THERE’S A CARNIVALESQUE CENTER to downtown Cleveland this week, it’s the five hundred feet of East Fourth Street leading to the Republican National Convention’s perimeter fence. The narrow brick street is thick with delegates, journalists, musicians, souvenir vendors, obscure-issue protesters, and police officers imported from around the country. MSNBC […]
Republican National Convention, Day 3: “National Security, Not National Benevolence”
Originally published in Indy Week. RONALD RABIN, A DONALD TRUMP DELEGATE from North Carolina, is tired of the GOP’s internal critics. He’s annoyed at the anti-Trump delegates who wanted to change the rules at the Republican National Convention so they could vote their consciences rather than being bound to candidates they might personally oppose. He has […]
Republican National Convention, Day 2: “Hillary Is a Foreign Agent of the Communist Chinese!”
Originally published in Indy Week. ALEX JONES, PRESUMABLY, ISN’T USED TO LOSING control of the stage. The syndicated radio host, dubbed “the most prolific conspiracy theorist in contemporary America” by the Southern Poverty Law Center, has a gift for energizing crowds. Before he spoke a single word at Monday’s America First Unity Rally—an unofficial Donald Trump […]
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