April 4, 2016 Climate Change Sanders’ climate change plan endorsed by economists studying carbon tax initiatives “Sanders has actually put forth a plan to actually curb emissions, whereas in Clinton’s place really right now it’s just continued rhetoric, and there’s no clear plan put forth.” the Real News Network
April 4, 2016 Peter Feaver on an effort to persuade a retired Marine Corps general to run for president
April 4, 2016 ISIS Behind the Syrian war, al-Qaida and ISIS fight for control of jihadi movement “What ISIL has done is to accomplish some of the things, at an earlier stage in that organization’s development, than al-Qaeda was able to.” Epoch Times
April 4, 2016 House Bill 2 North Carolina governor’s misleading claim about his executive order and the LGBT law The Washington Post
April 4, 2016 Ted Cruz Ted Cruz’s conservatism: The pendulum swings consistently right The New York Times
April 4, 2016 Redistricting N.C. can get beyond gerrymandering. Here’s how. “Tilting a single election is bad enough. But the true harm of warped districts comes from the long-term erosion of faith in our democratic values.” The Charlotte Observer
Bill Adair on the future of fact-checking
Donald Trump
The case for feeling compassion for Trump supporters
TIME magazine
Climate Change
Sanders’ climate change plan endorsed by economists studying carbon tax initiatives
“Sanders has actually put forth a plan to actually curb emissions, whereas in Clinton’s place really right now it’s just continued rhetoric, and there’s no clear plan put forth.”
the Real News Network
Storm Warning
Peter Feaver on an effort to persuade a retired Marine Corps general to run for president
ISIS
Behind the Syrian war, al-Qaida and ISIS fight for control of jihadi movement
“What ISIL has done is to accomplish some of the things, at an earlier stage in that organization’s development, than al-Qaeda was able to.”
Epoch Times
House Bill 2
North Carolina governor’s misleading claim about his executive order and the LGBT law
The Washington Post
Dan Ariely on lying in politics
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz’s conservatism: The pendulum swings consistently right
The New York Times
Redistricting
N.C. can get beyond gerrymandering. Here’s how.
“Tilting a single election is bad enough. But the true harm of warped districts comes from the long-term erosion of faith in our democratic values.”
The Charlotte Observer