Crime rates soared between 1960 and 1980 and remained high throughout the rest of the century, making fighting crime and restoring order national priorities. The burden of crime and disorder…
Justin Perry, the co-chair of Mecklenburg County school diversity organization OneMeck, writes in today’s Charlotte Observer, Never forget! These powerful two words will be highlighted, yelled, and displayed ubiquitously throughout…
Oren Cass explains for National Review Online readers why social inequality matters more than income inequality. By one measure, opportunity and mobility are thriving in America. Children born into the…
N&R editorial writer Doug Clark tries his hand at satire. Again. Here’s a sample: The state’s political leaders hold a strategy session…. …“We also should keep raising college tuition to…
Reihan Salam explains in the latest print edition of National Review why a stepped-up focus on apprenticeships might prove more useful to the American economy than “free” community college. Consider…
Not too long ago, a friend of mine was upset because she wasn’t rich enough to get her special-needs child into programs, and she wasn’t poor enough to qualify for…
Thomas Sowell has nothing good to say about a program designed to pair “public high school kids from a low-income neighborhood in the Bronx with kids from a private high…
The Watauga County Board of Elections is holding a meeting – yesterday, from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. – to determine where citizens want one-stop voting stations. The meeting was…
I went to pay my taxes today. It was a sorry sight. As I waited, I saw about three dozen people pass through a line that, for whatever reason, maintained…
If you’re wondering why John Hood spends so much time studying public policies that promote economic growth, consider Barron’s latest cover story. Jonathan Laing documents the impact of a “snail…
It is cruel to criticize charity because it isn’t perfect. So, here I go again. 95 kids from Cherokee County got to shop with a cop, spending $100 each in…