kind of deliberative assembly with the power to pass, amend, and repeal laws
Today is the 251st anniversary of the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence. The document was joyously celebrated last year in Charlotte with heightened pageantry on its 250th birthday, and this year…
Tyler O’Neil writes for the Daily Signal about a former president’s response to the US Supreme Court’s recent redistricting ruling. Barack Obama is a real piece of work. Seriously, he…
Craig McCarthy, Matthew Fischetti, and Vaughn Golden write for the New York Post about the socialist mayor’s latest bad idea. Mayor Zohran Mamdani is floating an extreme new proposal to…
Kate Farmer writes about government waste and fraud in the nation’s largest city. At the Armoni Inn & Suites, rooms boast modern appliances and glossy wood furniture, while a chandelier…
When North Carolina’s Fifth Provincial Congress convened in Halifax on November 12, 1776, the delegates undertook a daunting task that would define North Carolina. In just five weeks, they debated,…
Editors at National Review Online assess President Trump’s recent pronouncement about American election rules. President Trump announced on social media that he intends to “lead a movement to get rid…
For nearly a decade now, the composition and ownership of the North Carolina Board of Elections (NCSBE) have been a contested battle between the General Assembly and the Governor. The…
Yuval Levin laments Congress’ role in current constitutional struggles. Everyone who follows American politics is going to spend a lot of time thinking about presidential and judicial power over the…
President Donald Trump has ignited a firestorm with his ever-shifting tariff edicts. He imposed wild new tariffs by invoking the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA). But the IEEPA does…
Philip Wallach ponders recent actions of the federal government’s legislative branch. Near the outset of Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There, Lewis Carroll’s sequel to Alice in Wonderland,…
The John Locke Foundation published a review of President Donald Trump’s election executive order on March 26. We noted in the review that “the president is nowhere mentioned” in the…
President Trump issued an executive order on March 25 to alter federal election policy. The motivation for the order is to preserve American citizens’ right to “free, fair, and honest…