Liberty
Regulation
Government regulations typically restrict people’s behaviors and choices– causing economic damage, especially to society’s vulnerable who can least afford to comply. Locke works to deregulate and support innovation and growth.
Freedom Focus
Freedom Focus
Restoring the Separation of Powers in North Carolina
A strict separation of legislative, executive, and judicial power is guaranteed by both the North Carolina and the United States constitutions. With the connivance of progressive jurists, the progressive left…
Law & Public Safety
Gorsuch Gets It
In Over Ruled: The Human Toll of Too Much Law, US Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch and his former clerk, Janie Nitze, describe the extent to which the United States had…
Research Brief
Law & Public Safety
Restoring the Right to a Fair Trial in North Carolina
Judicial deference to administrative agencies undermines North Carolinians’ right to a fair trial. The North Carolina Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case that challenges administrative deference. In a…
Research Brief
Agriculture
Why North Carolina’s Regulatory Sandbox Needs Agriculture
North Carolina’s Regulatory Sandbox waives certain regulations for promising new products in finance and insurance. We could all benefit if the state’s largest industry, agriculture, could also avail itself of…
Health Care
Appeals Court to Cooper: What “Science and Data”? We See Rights Violations
In 2020, Gov. Roy Cooper issued a slew of executive orders under the rubric of limiting the spread of Covid-19, which he justified by the slogan of “science and data.”…
Education
The Free Market Can Help Address AI Bias
The use of generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) in K–12 schooling is a topic that has taken the education community by storm. Since the release of ChatGPT in November 2022, the…
Energy
Biden’s EV Dictates Face Two Big Problems: Buyers and Sellers
Gov. Roy Cooper wants 50 percent of new car sales in North Carolina to be electric vehicles (EVs) by 2030, and amid his Covid-fueled mania of releasing executive orders, he had…
Education
North Carolina Gets Low Marks on Education Entrepreneur Freedom Index
North Carolina scores low marks when it comes to fostering a welcoming regulatory environment for educational innovators and entrepreneurs, according to the Education Entrepreneur Freedom Index. The goal of the…
Freedom Focus
Budget, Taxation & Economy
New Paper Shows the Practical Impossibility of Central Planning
Socialist systems distrust the spontaneous order in market distribution of goods and replace it with central planners — with notoriously worse results. A new paper tested the hypothesis that this…
Agriculture
The Heavy Toll of Government Environmental Policies on American Farmers
A new report from the Buckeye Institute finds that environmental policies harm farm workers. In the push for environmental sustainability and carbon neutrality, governments around the world have implemented various…
Research Brief
Education
AI: How Schools Can Implement the Next Generation of Education Technology
As AI usage becomes more widespread and its educational applications grow in diversity, school districts have reacted by attempting to ban or restrict AI, allowing it to be used districtwide…
Research Brief
Agriculture
Let’s Broaden North Carolina’s Regulatory Sandbox
Recognizing that overregulation is stifling innovation, a regulatory sandbox allows for an incubation period for new products and services under a guided relaxation of legal and regulatory stringencies. The General…