Twilight’s Last Gleaming
There is a point in the decline of republics when the problem is no longer that government breaks its own laws. Governments will always behave unlawfully. The deeper problem comes when the constitutional machinery designed to prevent those acts stops functioning —...
250 years after America went to war for independence, a divided nation battles over its legacy
LEXINGTON, Mass. (AP) — Tens of thousands of people came to Lexington, Massachusetts, just before dawn on Saturday to witness a reenactment of how the American Revolution began 250 years ago, with the blast of gunshot and a trail of colonial flair. Starting with...
Don’t Know Much About Foreign Policy
Sen. Darline Graham, Republican of South Carolina, was appointed to serve out her late brother's term and was endorsed by President Donald Trump in the Republican primary for the full six-year term. Hers is a test in many respects: a test of President Trump's reach,...
News From Around the South, 8/17 to 8/24
VIRGINIA: SCC commissioner, former NextEra attorney declines to recuse herself from merger case On Tuesday, Virginia lawmakers heard from utility regulation experts on the potential impact of the proposed merger between Dominion Energy and NextEra Energy. If approved,...
ICE Wants Our Emails
When a government agency comes to an internet service provider demanding information about Americans because of what they have said on social media, the provider should discard the demand, close the door or hang up the phone. The government is not entitled to rummage...
Revolutionary War History: The Race to the Dan
Most people think of wars being won by a series of victorious battles. North Carolina’s contribution to the last winning days of the American Revolution’s last phase was that it was the site of a great retreat. I attended an event recently that commemorated this...
Trump Promised to Be a Dictator. Now We Know Which One
It was already one of the most clownish (if sinister) moments in the Trump administration — the Department of Justice actually brought criminal charges against former Olympic canoeist David Hearn for sabotaging the president's big, beautiful reflecting pool. It then...
News From Around the South, 8/10 to 8/17
SOUTH CAROLINA: DNC approves 2028 presidential nominating cycle starting in South Carolina, Nevada The Democratic National Committee on Saturday approved by voice vote its lineup of six early primaries for the 2028 election cycle, kicking off with South Carolina and...
The Right to Be Left Alone
"The makers of our Constitution undertook to secure conditions favorable to the pursuit of happiness. ... They conferred against the Government the right to be let alone — most comprehensive of rights and the right most valued by civilized men." — Justice Louis D....
Southern Living Names Southern Food Hall of Fame: 50 Iconic Foods And Drinks Chosen By Readers
Southerners always seem to be thinking about good food. We dream about breakfast in our sleep. Then, while we fight over the last piece of bacon, we make a plan for lunch, during which the supper menu is proposed, debated, and ratified. From the jars, bottles, boxes,...
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