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New Carolina Journal Online features
Lindsay Marchello reports for Carolina Journal Online on Republican legislative leaders and parents pushing for public schools to reopen. Jon Guze’s Daily Journal documents the political Left’s long war against…
Education
Martin Center column invites ‘radical’ change for student loans
Richard Vedder writes for the Martin Center about the need for major reform of the college student loan system. A recent defense of student loans by Jason Delisle of the…
Research Brief
Education
Inputs, outcomes, and the school that spent $25k per student
How do we account for these differences? Does money matter? While comparisons of school performance have been available for years, the ability to evaluate spending by school wasn’t possible until…
Elections & Public Integrity
Threat of left-wing political violence
Nathanael Blake of the Federalist highlights a dark undercurrent in the presidential election campaign. The quiet part is becoming very loud. Threats of left-wing political violence if President Trump is…
Elections & Public Integrity
Trump banking on pandemic recovery
David Drucker of the Washington Examiner reports on President Trump’s electoral focus on COVID-19. President Trump is gambling his reelection on “normal,” holding indoor campaign rallies and airing television ads…
Law & Public Safety
A halt in the ‘great crime decline’
Charles Fain Lehman of the Washington Free Beacon reports a disappointing development in national crime statistics. The two-decade-long crime decline appears to have conclusively plateaued, a new report released Monday…
Law & Public Safety
National Review editor highlights shameful attack on police
Rich Lowry details for National Review Online readers a disturbing story involving the response to violence against police. The attempted assassination of two Los Angeles County deputies, caught on a…
Liberty
Cancel culture and Cronkite
He was once “the most trusted man in America.” Now Walter Cronkite’s namesake school is a hotbed of cancel culture. Brian Anderson explains at National Review Online. Walter Cronkite said…
Liberty
COVID-19 News and Cooper’s Plan: Some Context and Criticism
With all the differing information swirling around COVID-19, it is always helpful to put that information in context. Our Jon Sanders did just that in his research brief this week.…
Elections & Public Integrity
New Carolina Journal Online features
Carolina Journal Online reports on Republican U.S. Sen. Thom Tillis’ attack mode during his first election debate against Democratic challenger Cal Cunningham. John Hood’s Daily Journal explains why the voter…
Law & Public Safety
“Due Process in a Fee-Driven State”
That’s the title of a new article by Tennessee College of Law professors Penny White and Glenn Reynolds. Here’s the Abstract: Inspired by the Justice Department’s report on criminal law…
Liberty
That’s one ugly virus!
A soon to be released paper called “Molecular architecture of the SARS-CoV-2 virus” describes the molecular assembly of the SARS-CoV-2 virus based on “cryo-electron tomography (cryo-ET) and subtomogram averaging (STA).”…