Justice
August 28, 2025 -
As the Trump administration escalates its efforts to gut the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, an Institute analysis finds that half of the complaints filed by consumers asking for the Bureau's help have come from Southern states.
August 27, 2025 -
At a critical moment for higher education, a leading urban scholar argues universities need to be doing more — not less — to support and invest in the communities where they are based.
July 25, 2025 -
Date in July on which President Trump signed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act: 4th
May 9, 2025 -
After moving control of North Carolina elections into the GOP-led N.C. State Auditor's office, Republicans have appointed a long-time conservative activist in Art Pope's network to chair the state election board who has pushed harsh voter restrictions and unsubstantiated claims of widespread voter fraud.
April 24, 2025 -
A by-the-numbers look at the role of Southern for-profit prison companies in the Trump administration's deportation crusade.
February 10, 2025 -
As a historic union election gets underway this week at an Amazon warehouse in Garner, North Carolina, the president of Carolina Amazonians United for Solidarity & Empowerment describes the importance of the vote for workers at the RDU1 facility and across the South.
November 22, 2024 -
In the fifth story in our CAROLINADAZE series, Hadeel Hamoud traces the enduring presence of Muslim communities in the South and the region's movements for change.