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Budget, Taxation & Economy
NC threat-free index as of Oct. 19
For those disinclined to be ruled by fear and unwilling to join in glaring at their fellow citizens suspiciously as if they are germ-ridden disease vectors, especially if they look…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
America: Land of opportunity
I follow real estate agent Michelle Vega on Facebook, and this post appeared on my feed yesterday. I love it. Marlon is an entrepreneur who worked hard and earned enough…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Most Pollsters Say Trump Will Lose. Not This One. Here’s Why.
Why is it that one pollster — the Trafalgar Group — is bucking the polling conventional wisdom and predicting a Trump win? Rich Lowrey of National Review sat down with…
Elections & Public Integrity
The Constitution’s role in sorting through electoral confusion
Ryan Williams and Kevin Roberts write for the Federalist about their efforts to “game out” the 2020 election. There is no shortage of polls or pundits predicting the outcome of…
Liberty
American allies worry about election chaos
Joel Gehrke of the Washington Examiner reports concerns from American allies about the pending election. American adversaries and rogue nations around the world sense a “power vacuum” in the United…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Elect Biden, kill 2 million jobs
Collin Anderson of the Washington Free Beacon highlights a recent analysis of one economic policy proposal from Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden. One of Joe Biden’s top economic policy priorities…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Warning about the ‘redistributionist right’
Michael Watson delivers National Review Online readers a warning about an unwise policy favored by some on the political right. If making American workplace relations more like those in the…
Health Care
Trump, health care, and the battle against COVID-19
John Goodman and Marie Fishpaw write for National Review Online about Trump administration health care changes and the impact for COVID-19. Our health-care system is experiencing rapid, powerful change, far…
Health Care
New Carolina Journal Online features
Julie Havlak reports for Carolina Journal Online on John Locke Foundation research that exposes the bad math driving Gov. Roy Cooper’s Medicaid expansion plans. The Daily Journal highlights one scholar’s…
Research Brief
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Remote learning and learning loss: America’s $14 trillion problem
If large-scale in-class instruction does not resume until January 2021, the average student will have fallen behind by the equivalent of seven months of learning. For low-income, black, and Hispanic…
Education
Martin Center column probes UNC campus ‘transparency’
KC Johnson writes for the Martin Center about misuse of transparency in UNC Chapel Hill’s dealings with the campus newspaper. “Sunlight,” Justice Louis Brandeis once wrote, “is said to be…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Businesses could face federal, state tax hikes in 2021
Patrick Gleason of Americans for Tax Reform offers Forbes readers a warning about one potential impact of the fall election: tax hikes in 2021. Aside from the Supreme Court and…