Note: This article was first published by the North Carolina History Project on August 12, 2026. “No one learned anything. We all sat around online, pretending to pay attention, and…
Lord Acton famously observed that “Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely” Having led the chorus for Gov. Cooper’s illegal abuse of emergency powers under Covid. The News…
Progressives across the country are working tirelessly to rewrite the history on school reopenings, claiming that it was a bipartisan effort. The reality is far different, and, in fact, progressive…
State visitor spending in 2021 would have needed to be another $2 billion higher to break even with the 2019 record. Tourism jobs in 2021 were still 18% below pre-pandemic…
Earlier this week Keung Hui of the News and Observer tweeted that Wake County Public Schools is still recommending that all students and staff wear masks in schools isn’t time…
What were the results of states’ actions to mitigate COVID-19? Three experts tackled this question and published their results in a recent NBER working paper titled “A Final Report Card on the…
The governor continued to say that “science and data” backed his orders. I went through all 23 of his citations looking for findings strong enough to justify such an extreme…
This past week 99.9% of people in NC were estimated to pose no threat of passing along COVID-19 to anyone. Also, the seven-day rolling averages of hospitalizations and new cases are at…
Over 40% of new Covid-19 cases in North Carolina in the month of January were to fully vaccinated* individuals. Meanwhile, 52% of cases were to unvaccinated or not fully vaccinated*…
A new video from Pacific Legal Foundation highlights the problem of governors abusing their emergency powers. It’s a topic we’ve seen discussed frequently here in North Carolina, often by my…
Over the month of December, 59.7% of new Covid-19 cases in North Carolina were to unvaccinated or not fully vaccinated individuals. Only 5.3% of new cases were to people who…
This past week over 99.6% of people in NC were estimated to pose no threat of passing along COVID-19 to anyone, and nearly nine out of 10 (89.7%) adult North Carolinians are…