Political labels can be artificial
The political extremes aren’t really growing rapidly at the expense of a truly vanishing middle. Polarization isn’t the same thing as radicalization.
The political extremes aren’t really growing rapidly at the expense of a truly vanishing middle. Polarization isn’t the same thing as radicalization.
Tennessee’s pre-k program doesn’t just fail to accomplish its stated goal of improving academic and behavioral outcomes. It actually seems to worsen those outcomes.
A new study estimates that by restricting access to services, certificate-of-need laws increase the number of heart-attack deaths by as much as 10%.
Wherever you may stand on the question of restoring voting rights to convicted felons, you don’t stand alone. Opinions vary.
Freedom is of great practical value. The more government suppresses it, the poorer and unhappier its citizens become.
Roy Cooper earned the votes of 8% of those who voted for Trump and Tillis. Dan Forest received only 2% of the votes of Biden and Cunningham supporters.
A flock of progressive Chicken Littles spent the past decade warning that North Carolina’s legislature was ruining our economy and reputation by failing to “invest.”
If you grew up in North Carolina, you grew up surrounded by reminders of America’s founding era and Revolutionary War.
Effective vaccines are broadly available. Effective therapies soon will be. Yet the disease isn’t going to disappear. Pandemic will become endemic.
Only one person whose highest previous office was U.S. House has ever won elected to the U.S. Senate from North Carolina.
North Carolina’s labor-force participation rate was 59.3% in November. Two years ago, in November 2019, that rate was 61.5%.
According to the latest measurements of gross domestic product, manufacturing makes up 17% of North Carolina’s economy. That’s a far-higher share than the national and regional averages, both 11%.