South Carolina
Why Lindsey Graham was always ready for war
Political lives almost always end in failure, or at least anticlimax, but Lindsey Graham went to his reward while in…
Southern Gothic: the horror story of Alex Murdaugh, paterfamilias and ‘family annihilator’
James Lasdun attempts to fathom what drove an apparently respectable, caring South Carolina lawyer to slaughter his wife and youngest son
Towards Zero: the gruesome countdown to the American Civil War
The North and South had been bitterly divided over slavery since the invention of the cotton gin in the 1790s, but the Battle of Fort Sumter in 1861 would prove the point of no return
Crunch time in Carolina
Raleigh, North Carolina North and South Carolina are home to some of the most important contests of this usually contentious…
Why the #NeverBernie efforts fell flat in South Carolina
Last night, as expected, Bernie Sanders’s status as the front-runner invited a pile-on of attacks from the other candidates for…
