Raleigh, North Carolina From a distance, North Carolina’s Moral Monday Movement reads like a spontaneous reaction to Republican Governor Pat McCrory and the Republican supermajorities that control the General Assembly. Before adjourning this past September, North Carolina’s Tea Party-dominated General Assembly eliminated 5,200 teaching positions and 4,580 teacher assistants, they cut pre-K classes for […]

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In November 1942, with the allies beginning to turn the tide in World War II, Winston Churchill said: “Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.” I thought of that as I joined Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, champions […]

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(John Lewis) John Lewis is suing Joe Biden. Lewis is the Georgia Congressman who as a young man was bludgeoned and tear-gassed by Alabama State Troopers breaking up a civil rights march in Selma, Alabama. Erika Andiola is also suing Joe Biden. Andiola is an Arizona State University graduate in her twenties who was brought […]

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David Brooks put down his bong a long time ago: For a little while in my teenage years, my friends and I smoked marijuana. It was fun. I have some fond memories of us all being silly together. I think those moments of uninhibited frolic deepened our friendships. But then we all sort of moved […]

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(William Barber, lower right with red sash | Source: Raleigh News & Observer)   The Moral Monday Movement (or the Historic Thousands on Jones Street Coalition) registered with the national media last year when it turned out more than 10,000 protesters at the North Carolina State Capitol, in response to extreme measures enacted by Republican […]

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