Southern Politics
November 8, 2011 -
With 2012 looming, Southerners will take to the polls across the region to decide key legislative races, as well as a nationally-watched ballot initiative in Mississippi.
November 3, 2011 -
The Department of Justice has largely taken a hands-off approach to state redistricting plans. But when it comes to photo ID laws and other voting rights issues in the South, the DOJ has emerged as a key player.
October 26, 2011 -
Education Secretary Arne Duncan was in North Carolina yesterday to tout the president's jobs bill -- and he said he was keeping a close eye on the Wake County school board battle over diversity.
October 24, 2011 -
Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain revised his tax proposal in response to criticism that it would disproportionately burden the poor. But the new plan would still hit low-income Americans hard.
October 21, 2011 -
North Carolina powerbroker Art Pope doesn't like the media attention he's received since a New Yorker profile pushed him and his political empire into the national spotlight three weeks ago. Here's why he deserves all the public scrutiny -- and more.
October 19, 2011 -
The proposal would have most Americans paying far more in taxes -- and most millionaires paying far less.
October 17, 2011 -
A big part of Tea Party darling Herman Cain's media image is about being a political outsider. But a new Associated Press report shows how the conservative activist group Americans for Prosperity, led by the Koch brothers and Art Pope, has been a critical springboard for the 2012 Republican presidential hopeful.
