Biden decline prompts three questions
If Biden remains unpopular a year from now, can North Carolina Democrats avoid electoral calamity by avoiding the party’s national brand and clinging more tightly to Gov. Roy Cooper?
If Biden remains unpopular a year from now, can North Carolina Democrats avoid electoral calamity by avoiding the party’s national brand and clinging more tightly to Gov. Roy Cooper?
If you think “The Andy Griffith Show” continues to brighten the days of its many fans because of some misbegotten yearning for white supremacy, you are deeply confused — and entirely untrustworthy as an observer of the human condition.
I have my own views about North Carolina’s labor-market woes, but the first step to debating the issue well is to agree on the basic scope of the problem.
According to the Census Bureau’s supplemental poverty measure, 9.1% of Americans were poor in 2020, a big drop from the 11.7% rate it reported in 2019.
President Biden’s vaccine mandate relies on the idea that unvaccinated workers pose a grave risk to their vaccinated coworkers. This is an unwise and counterproductive claim.
Are Democratic activists, cheered on by Democratic leaders, truly willing to undermine popular sovereignty? Can they not foresee how Republicans will respond?
Domestic jobs lost to international competition may be easy to identify and regret. That they are more visible, however, does not make them more numerous or more important.
North Carolina has made significant gains towards economic freedom over the past decade. To continue that progress, we must make occupational-licensing reform a higher priority.
The travails of Albemarle County Baptists and other religious dissenters during the 1760s and 1770s had a strong impression on Thomas Jefferson.
People have recalculated the risk-reward ratio and concluded that living in a lower-density environment is more attractive than it used to be.
A recent academic study also found that nursing homes in places subject to certificate-of-need laws had higher incidence of COVID-19 than in places where providers are free to compete.
If Biden and the Democrats expect the issue of Afghanistan to go away quickly, they are guilty of yet another catastrophic lapse in judgment.