Jay Cost of National Review Online explores Republicans’ power within state legislatures after last week’s midterm elections. Democrats made important gains across the states, but the Republicans remain in a…
Warren Henry writes for the Federalist that Republicans should pay attention to election turnout numbers. “It all comes down to turnout” is the hoariest truism in election coverage. We don’t…
Jonathan Tobin uses a National Review Online column to issue Republican leaders a warning. So it turns out that Karl Marx was right about history’s repeating itself as farce. That…
The Insider’s Patrick Gannon has a column out on Bob Rucho, who recently announced that he won’t be seeking reelection next year. Gannon’s piece begins: If you pay attention to…
Victor Davis Hanson‘s latest column at National Review Online delves into the role of government coercion in advancing the political left’s policy goals. What happens when the public does not…
Tim Reid reports for Reuters on the potential impact of this week’s elections on efforts to reform public pension systems across the United States. Union-backed defenders of public pensions and…
The State Board of Elections announced that there will be 366 one-stop voting sites for this year’s general election. That’s the highest number for any non-presidential election year. This years…
Carolina Journal’s Dan Way asked Meredith College political science professor David McLennan for perspective on the U.S. Senate race between Democratic incumbent Kay Hagan, Republican N.C. House Speaker Thom Tillis,…
Josh Kraushaar warns National Journal readers that the 44th president’s signature piece of legislation — ObamaCare — could end up having a negative unintended consequence for his political allies. In…
Today’s Carolina Journal interview features a Q&A with New York Times columnist Ross Douthat, who shared his insights about democratic capitalism during a visit this fall to Chapel Hill. He discussed similar…
Like John Hood’s most recent Daily Journal, Michael Barone‘s latest column explores the impact of the latest election on state-level politics. In state legislative races, Democrats also rebounded from 2010,…
The New York Times credits “the hidden hand of thousands of Obama for America volunteers and staff members” for carrying Democratic candidates to victory in North Carolina. How did they…