The biggest long-term threat of Trumpism is the end of democracy. That might sound like hyperbole, but it isn't. All we have to do is look at the last several years in North Carolina, where Pat McCrory and the extremists in the Republican legislature have...
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North Carolina's nakedly racist voter suppression program reminds a judge of 1901. North Carolina’s process for challenging voters’ registration seems to harken to a bygone era when fewer safeguards were.
On September 16, 2004, Mt. Olive Pickles finally came to an agreement with the Farm Labor Organizing Committee, ending a lengthy boycott of the company. This groundbreaking farm workers union.
On September 5, 1934, the governor of North Carolina called out the National Guard to aid mill owners in the textile strike overtaking their state and the east coast. This strike, not only mobilizing the remnant apparel workers of the northeast, but the traditionally anti-union...
On September 3, 1991, a chicken factory in Hamlet, North Carolina caught of fire thanks to nonexistent safety procedures, killing 25 workers and injuring another 55. This was the largest.
A few days ago, i talked about Rheeism going global, with Teach for America taking their privatization anti-union schemes around the world. But there's another side of global Rheeism, which.
North Carolina governor Pat McCrory's embarrassing signature of the state's transgender bathroom law is fitting for a man who has hated gay people his whole public life. McCrory has rejected LGBT anti-discrimination measures every chance he’s had in his 25 years in public office. He...
North Carolina is great at two things these days. One is rampant labor exploitation. The other is horrendous wingnut state legislators. I wonder if we can combine those issues? Of.
Ted Cruz's advisers were behind the North Carolina anti-gay bill. As he worked to rally evangelical voters a week before North Carolina's March 15 primary, Ted Cruz gave a speech.
The meat industry routinely seeks to site large farms in poorer areas that need the few jobs they provide. As with other polluting industries, this means they target people of color. In North Carolina, hog farms are the culprit. They are really nasty, both to...
One of the most pernicious right-wing goals, and I know the competition for this title is really stiff, are the so-called ag-gag bills agribusiness are pushing in the states. These.
Unveiling ceremony of Confederate monument, Salisbury, North Carolina, 1909 Sometimes people wonder why the Confederate monuments matter? As if getting rid of them will end racism! No one argued that,.