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Elections & Public Integrity
Voting lines spark cries of suppression
Tobias Hoonhout reports for National Review Online on an interesting response to voting lines in Georgia. Footage showing long lines of enthusiastic early voters in a Georgia county drew predictable…
Energy
Electric Cars: Bad for the Environment, Good for China
Electric cars are often praised in the media as beacons of environmentalism. However, the reality is less flattering. As JLF’s Dr. Don van der Vaart writes in his most recent…
Elections & Public Integrity
New Carolina Journal Online features
Julie Havlak reports for Carolina Journal Online on the history of separation-of-powers disputes in North Carolina. A second report highlights a federal judge’s decision to block N.C. absentee ballots that…
Liberty
EPA advisor smashes Cooper and Cohen’s “case” for masks
DHHS's own case for forcing masks is based on a meta-analysis that finds masks are not even effective?
Education
Public school advocates yawn as Wayne County Schools announce $5 million budget deficit
Say it with me: “If the Wayne County Schools was a charter school…” But there will be an outpouring of sympathy for the district, in addition to state assistance to…
Education
Edutopia: Raised fist and gay pride flag ok to use in your bitmoji classroom
Would Edutopia approve of a Gadsden flag?
Education
No, Republicans aren’t trying to “dismantle and warp the social studies curriculum”
Kim Mackey, a social studies teacher in Wake County, wants you to believe that the Republicans are trying to “dismantle and warp the social studies curriculum.” Mackey leaves a lot…
Liberty
Presidents as storytellers
Tevi Troy writes about a new book that highlights the best presidential authors. There is a long and storied history of presidents who have been authors of books that display…
Research Brief
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Gov. Cooper’s “Clean Energy Plan,” Part 4: Helping the Environment or Just Helping China?
PEVs would increase electricity use and actually exacerbate global warming to the extent GHGs are the cause. Cooper should instead focus on reducing the carbon intensity of our electricity grid…
Education
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools enrollment down 4.6%
Ann Doss Helms of WFAE has the details: In a sign of Charlotte’s growing diversity and the upheaval created by the coronavirus pandemic, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools has more Hispanic than white…
Education
Martin Center column highlights attacks on Western civilization
Mark Bauerlein writes for the Martin Center about efforts to undermine instruction about Western civilization. [T]here is a big difference between the revisionists of old and the Wokesters of today.…
Elections & Public Integrity
Looking beyond the high-profile races
Stella Morabito of the Federalist reminds us about the importance of down-ballot races during this election. Americans ought to be thinking a lot harder about their local, down-ballot races. This…