Southern Politics
June 11, 2009 -
At today's memorial for John Hope Franklin at Duke University, playwright Emily Mann -- daughter of historian Arthur Mann, a close friend of Franklin's -- related one of many illuminating personal stories about the pioneering historian and scholar.
June 11, 2009 -
The Tennessee Valley Authority's Inspector General released an audit this week
May 28, 2009 -
Speaking yesterday to an American Legion youth program in Jackson, Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour said he has thought about running for president -- but that he won't think about it anymore until after 2010.
May 27, 2009 -
Political pundits routinely dismiss the South as a region that's losing relevance -- but the U.S. public appears to have missed the memo.
May 26, 2009 -
With the Supreme Court now considering one of the most serious challenges to the 1965 Voting Rights Act in history -- and states battling over election law, like voter ID in Texas --
May 15, 2009 -
The excellent Ken Silverstein has a good post up at Harper's on the sprawling tentacles of corporate lobbyist Richard Berman, the man coordinating the business offensive against the Employee Free Choice Act.{C}As Silverstein notes, Berman runs a network of 15 front group
May 8, 2009 -
The Blue Dog Democratic Coalition is one of the favorite punching bags of the progressive blogosphere.