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Institute Index: One year after Helene

Date on which Hurricane Helene made landfall in southwest Florida as a Category 4 hurricane: 9/26/24 Last time the region affected by Helene had...

26.11.2025 3

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Chris Kromm

Durham Rising confronts Duke’s troubled labor history

Since its founding by a Gilded Age tobacco tycoon, Duke University has been a hotbed of labor unrest — and the university has earned a reputation...

26.11.2025 7

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Lekha Shupeck

Institute Index: The assault on consumer protection

Year that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was formed to protect consumers from fraud and abuse: 2011 Number of complaints the Bureau has...

25.11.2025 4

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Chris Kromm

NC election board chair peddled election denial and unsubtantiated voter fraud claims

The 2024 elections left North Carolina Democrats with much to celebrate. While the perennial battleground state followed national trends with...

03.11.2025 10

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Chris Kromm

GOP escalates campaign to weaken donor transparency in NC

If Republican lawmakers and deep-pocketed conservative funders get their way, Big Money donors in North Carolina will have more ways to hide their...

03.11.2025 2

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Chris Kromm

NC and the redistricting wars: An interview with Tyler Daye

In October, leadership in the North Carolina General Assembly passed a radical new gerrymander of the state’s Congressional maps, pulling the state...

31.10.2025 1

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Lekha Shupeck

Key Southern elections to watch in 2025

Key state and local elections will unfold across the South next week, including a chance for Democrats to take control of the executive and...

31.10.2025 1

Facing South

Chris Kromm