North Carolina Republicans Are About to Win Their War Against Democracy

The battle did not end there, however. In those midterm elections, voters elected two new conservative judges to North Carolina’s state supreme court. They quickly joined with their colleagues on the new 5-2 majority to overturn the court’s 2022 ruling, Continue reading North Carolina Republicans Are About to Win Their War Against Democracy

The Work That Didn’t Win Claudia Goldin Her Nobel Is Great Too

Another driver of the Great Compression was an increase in the number of college graduates that matched and occasionally exceeded rising demand for skilled labor, especially after passage of the G.I Bill in 1944 furnished free tuition to World War Continue reading The Work That Didn’t Win Claudia Goldin Her Nobel Is Great Too

With Jon Fosse’s Win, the Nobel Prize in Literature Is So Back

He is not a dour writer, however. “Many people have stressed the sublimity of Fosse’s writing—a sublimity verging on divinity—but few have pointed out how funny he can be as a novelist and a playwright,” the critic Merve Emre, who Continue reading With Jon Fosse’s Win, the Nobel Prize in Literature Is So Back