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Nicholas Eberstadt writes for the American Enterprise Institute about a demographic challenge for America’s future. Can America continue to prosper, even if our country veers into an indefinite depopulation? The…
For decades, American policymakers have debated how best to reduce poverty. The dominant policy response since 1964 and the launch of the War on Poverty under President Lyndon B. Johnson has been redistribution, expanding government programs designed to transfer…
Ramesh Ponnuru of National Review Online offers an excellent lesson in history and tax policy to a clueless California congressman. The politician in question quotes one of the progressives’ favorite…
Although election fraud can take various forms, voting by mail (known as absentee voting in North Carolina) is uniquely vulnerable to fraud. When law enforcement and election officials fail to…
As part of the John Locke Foundation’s NC250: Freedom’s Vanguard initiative, this essay contest invited students, scholars, historians, and writers to explore North Carolina’s pivotal role in the American Revolution…
Michael Tanner documents the challenges associated with rural poverty in America. The common image of poverty in the United States is a primarily urban phenomenon. This preconception helps shape the…
Rich Lowry writes for the New York Post about concerns surrounding the growing reliance on artificial intelligence. ChatGPT is coming for your job. That’s the fear about the rapid advances…
James Franey writes for the New York Post about a defense of the president’s tariff proposals. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Monday warned critics of President Donald Trump’s controversial tariff…
Editors at National Review Online assess one of President Donald Trump’s latest feuds. If Donald Trump is upset about higher interest rates, he should stop doing just about everything he…
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,…
In Part One of this series, I confirmed that North Carolina does indeed have a crime problem. I noted that crime rates rose dramatically between 2018 and 2021 and that clearance rates…
Mark Warshawsky describes one way in which Social Security’s oversight agency is falling short of its responsibilities. One of the main ways the Social Security Administration (SSA) determines whether or…