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This election year has created some unusual coalitions–especially in the presidential campaigns. As Ezra Klein, an opinion columnist for The New York Times, described it, the race has pitted “guardians” of traditional American institutions against “counterrevolutionaries” trying to tear them apart. […]

Anne Blythe, a former reporter for The News & Observer, has reported on courts, criminal justice, and an array of topics in North Carolina for more than three decades.

Michael Hewlett is a courts and law reporter for The Assembly. He was previously a legal affairs reporter at the Winston-Salem Journal and has won two Henry Lee Weathers Freedom of Information Awards.