Articles

How “swingy” are North Carolina General Assembly districts?

Government housing for teachers and public employees is not the solution to Wake County’s housing problem

High power bills? Blame bad state policies, not data centers

Featured

How “swingy” are North Carolina General Assembly districts?

Government housing for teachers and public employees is not the solution to Wake County’s housing problem

Reflections from North Carolina’s Covid Generation

Freedom Focus

The truth about universal coverage, part one

What do teachers think about K-12 education and school choice?

Research Brief

Energy

High power bills? Blame bad state policies, not data centers

Latest Research

Latest Articles

Over 105,000 have recovered from COVID-19 in NC as active cases fall again

This was the second week in a row that active cases fell, and the second week in a row there were more recoveries than new cases.

“Dead teachers can’t teach. Dead students can’t learn”

A group of Union County teachers is petitioning the county school board to implement a full-time remote learning plan. Today, the group held signs in front of the district’s central…

Health Care

Sen. Paul introduces universal HSA bill

U.S. Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) recently introduced a bill that would dramatically liberalize the rules and regulations regarding health savings accounts (HSA). HSA’s are accounts that individuals and employers can…

Research Brief

Should the UNC System reduce tuition and fees?

While the majority of university faculty believe that online teaching is inferior to in-person instruction and invites academic fraud, UNC students now face a fall semester without the advantages of…

Martin Center column highlights growth of student anxiety

Anthony Hennen of the Martin Center writes about student anxiety as the fall semester approaches. College admissions is a different field than it was 20 or even 10 years ago.…

Liberty

Scary social media censorship

Christina Herrin writes at Townhall.com about the ills associated with censorship by social media giants. One of the many great things about being an American is that we have the…

Regulation

‘Defund the police’ movement’s impact on Second Amendment

Editors at the Washington Examiner discuss the link between gun ownership and popular efforts to abolish police. “My whole adult life, opponents of private gun ownership have insisted that an…

Teacher unions tout outlandish wish list of reopening demands

Eric Boehm writes at Reason.com about the disconnect between teachers unions’ current demands and actual threats COVID-19 poses to schools reopening. As school districts across the country grapple with the…

Preparing for election changes

Yuval Levin explains for the American Enterprise Institute why officials ought to start explaining now that election results might not be clear on the first Tuesday in November. We have…

Liberty

Obama opened door for Trump

John Podhoretz reminds New York Post readers how Barack Obama’s failings as U.S. president helped lead to Donald Trump’s 2016 election victory. At 8:46 a.m. on Thursday, President Trump issued…

New Carolina Journal Online features

Julie Havlak reports for Carolina Journal Online about COVID-19’s impact on the uninsured. John Hood’s Daily Journal focuses on issues likely to drive county commissioner elections across North Carolina.