Asheville is an Appalachian Shangri-La. This year-round resort town, tucked between the Blue Ridge and Smoky Mountains, draws a […]
Category Archive: North Carolina
As the late, great Larry Goodwyn might say, it all goes back to Populism. The roots of today’s […]
As North Carolina has recently fallen into the hands of the far right, it is worth revisiting where […]
America’s partisan political wars have come to North Carolina, as big-money donors have helped bring the most ideologically […]
The latest most-important-election-of-our-lifetimes is upon us. Almost every election seems to get spun this way, although in 2000 […]
Our Alex Sayf Cummings has a new piece up at Salon looking at the epic 1972 electoral battle between […]
I gave my heart to the Army/ The only sentimental thing I could think of/ With cousins and […]
In September of 2007, I became one of the then approximately 73,000 citizens of the city of Asheville, […]