News consumers deserve better than automated click bait
Baiting someone to click on an irrelevant article may be a small victory, but it's a bad long-term strategy. Because some of the those who click may never click again.
Baiting someone to click on an irrelevant article may be a small victory, but it's a bad long-term strategy. Because some of the those who click may never click again.
We've always had educational choice for those of means. All the school-choice movement is trying to do is provide those same choices to those who haven't traditionally had them.
Let's avoid the governmental quick fixes that actually make the problems worse, even if we may benefit from their short-term relief, and instead focus on keeping things affordable for consumers through market-based solutions.
An ugly tactic — that of a major party trying to bully third-party candidates off the ballot to improve their own chances — has returned in North Carolina.
Blaming the spike in prices on companies who are also experiencing higher costs is, well, bananas.
Political and cultural causes are important. They motivate us to make the world around us better and hone our sense of justice. Also, the excitement of fighting the good fight can be, for lack of a better word, fun. But everything has its time and place. And even if we think a particular political issue...
After forfeiting control over education to the left for years, conservatives decided to fight back. And from K-12 to the university system, they are winning battle after battle.
The latest Carolina Journal poll was a satisfying reminder of the continuing good sense of residents of my adopted home (in great contrast to where I grew up inside the DC Beltway). Their common sense shone through especially on questions related to economics and the role of government. With the state anticipating a $1-billion surplus,...
On Thursday, the state Senate voted to clear the waitlist for the North Carolina Opportunity Scholarship Program, which provides vouchers to families who want to send their child to a private school. On Monday, the state House is likely to follow suit. Making this among the General Assembly’s first moves of the 2024 short session...
Wild, disruptive protests in support of the Palestinian cause are in progress at campuses across the country. At many of them, there are threats and antisemitic language. But it can be difficult to trace much of what is said back to particular people because of attempts by protesters to remain anonymous by covering their faces....
While many were justly distracted by other headlines about North Carolina higher education this week — like the UNC Board of Governors moving against DEI — there were a number of headlines regarding a rise in crime on college campuses. ABC 11 had a story entitled, “College students talk about campus safety amid string of...
A recent article in The Free Press, by Uri Berliner, a NPR senior editor who has worked at the iconic news station for 25 years, exposed how his organization, like many other mainstream media publications, lost the trust of the American people. Berliner identifies himself as part of the wealthy, white progressive elite, the stereotype...