In 2005, Dr. Karen Palasek wrote a Free Market Minute column about how "price gouging, a term that has no economic meaning, is actually helpful in averting a gas crisis."
When President Obama promised North Carolinians recently that his jobs bill would create 13,000 new public-sector jobs in this state, he left out the inconvenient fact that the jobs would…
This week’s Carolina Journal Online Friday interview features a conversation with N.C. State professor and Modern Age editor R.V. Young about the poor state of college writing instruction. Karen Palasek’s…
As my colleague Karen Palasek discussed in the context of power companies supporting carbon taxes, In the literal Baptists and bootleggers story, Baptists want a legal prohibition of alcoholic beverage…
The E.A. Morris Fellowship Program is searching now for its next class of “emerging leaders.” Karen Palasek, who oversees the Fellows in her role as John Locke Foundation director of…
? what?s next? The latest TIME highlights North Carolina?s latest nanny-state efforts: North Carolina this year became the second state to approve an increase in out-of-pocket expenses for state workers…
Readers of Durham’s Herald-Sun had a chance this week to read a guest column from Carolina Journal Radio co-host Donna Martinez. It focused on the plight of a Chapel Hill…
This week’s Carolina Journal Online Friday interview features political insights from Michael Barone of The Washington Examiner and Fox News. Karen Palasek’s guest Daily Journal explores the best ways to…
North Carolina editorial pages are also sharing John Locke Foundation expertise with their readers. Today the Fayetteville Observer published an op-ed from Randal O’Toole sharing details from his most recent…
This week’s Carolina Journal Friday interview features Donna Martinez’s conversation with George Leef about the problems associated with college students’ reliance on “essay mills.” Karen Palasek’s guest Daily Journal focuses…
President Obama’s nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to serve as the next U.S. Supreme Court justice continues to generate headlines. Carolina Journal Associate Editor David Bass discussed the issue in…
Protests over state and federal taxes continue, even as the federal income tax deadline has come and gone. John Locke Foundation experts will play a role as Tea Party tax…