Merry Christmas! This weekend’s edition of Carolina Journal Radio features some of the year’s most interesting topics.

Terry Stoops assesses the impact of the latest round of A-F letter grades for North Carolina public schools, while Katherine Restrepo urges all reform-minded presidential candidates to address the problems created by Obamacare. Roy Cordato identifies a “special interest effect” that plagues public policy.

Guy Benson and Mary Katharine Ham explore the political left’s efforts to shut down debate on controversial topics, and James Piereson of the William E. Simon Foundation explains why a focus on income inequality ignores the more important problem of sluggish economic growth.