The recent sixth anniversary of Obamacare offered North Carolina policymakers a chance to reflect on changes they could make to boost health care freedom in North Carolina. Katherine Restrepo outlines…
Some politicians tout a higher minimum wage and increased education spending as tools to reduce income inequality. Recent research from Barton College economist John Bethune suggests that policies promoting economic…
The latest polls in North Carolina’s high-profile U.S. Senate race prompted Time Warner Cable News’ statewide “Capital Tonight” program to seek expert analysis this week from Carolina Journal Managing Editor…
The North Carolina General Assembly’s return to Raleigh this week led to television and radio interviews for John Locke Foundation staffers. Director of Communications Mitch Kokai discussed legislative votes to…
This week’s Carolina Journal Online Friday interview features a conversation with Barton College historian Jeff Broadwater about the importance of America’s fourth president, James Madison. John Hood’s Daily Journal recommends…
Duke Cheston writes a very interesting piece on the utilization of classroom space on college campuses. On one hand, we continually hear students demanding more sections of courses. On the…
After leading the University of North Carolina system for 30 years and influencing the state’s public policy for another quarter century, William Friday died at age 92, leaving a distinguished…
A glaring omission from this year’s presidential debates was the Federal Reserve’s role in contributing to the nation’s flagging economy. John Locke Foundation Vice President for Research and Resident Scholar…
The North Carolina History Project has hosted various programs, including living history events, constitutional workshops, and academic symposia, to foster national and state constitutional literacy. Previous lecturers have included Kevin…
Harvard law professor Lawrence Lessig’s visit to the John Locke Foundation this week to discuss campaign-finance reform ideas attracted attention from WRAL and the News & Observer‘s “Under the Dome”…
James Madison is known as the Father of the Constitution. But that doesn’t mean the U.S. Constitution is the document Madison would have created if he had acted on his…
Attend Monday’s John Locke Foundation Shaftesbury Society meeting, and you’ll have the chance to partake of the lessons Barton College history professor Jeff Broadwater learned in the course of writing…