Opinion
GOP still ahead on key issues
Democrats will enter the homestretch of the 2024 cycle with at least one disadvantage: their best issues aren’t top-of-mind for most voters.
Opinion
Deja vu all over again for NC’s 3rd parties
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.
Opinion
Biden’s misleading ‘greedflation’ narrative on National Hunger Awareness Day
On this National Hunger Awareness Day, let's move beyond the misleading rhetoric of "greedflation" and focus on developing comprehensive solutions to address the complex challenges of food insecurity and price inflation.
Opinion
Ticket-splitters could prove decisive
In polling averages, the former president leads by five to six points. Meanwhile, Stein and Robinson are running neck-and-neck.
Opinion
Inflation or price gouging? We all know the answer.
Blaming the spike in prices on companies who are also experiencing higher costs is, well, bananas.
Opinion
Higher exports would aid Carolina economy
The livelihoods of many North Carolinians — and thus the health of many North Carolina communities — depend on the expansion of international trade.
Opinion
NC lawmaker fights student-loan scheme
In the modern era, few policies have been as reckless, lawless, and perverse as Joe Biden’s repeated efforts to transfer student-loan debt to taxpayers.
Opinion
On Charlotte murders, Biden blew it
When officers from the US Marshal Service, the NC Department of Adult Correction, the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department, and other agencies approached a home in eastern Charlotte on April 29, their purpose was to serve warrants on a fugitive named Terry Clark Hughes Jr. The fugitive fought back, costing four men their lives: Adult Correction officers...
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Carolina Journal’s Donna King analyzes CJ Poll numbers for president, governor
Donna King, Carolina Journal editor-in-chief, discusses the latest Carolina Journal Poll numbers in North Carolina’s races for president and governor. King offered these comments during the April 12, 2024, edition of PBS North Carolina’s “State Lines.”
Opinion
Both sides offer bad trade policies
For all the obvious and consequential differences between Joe Biden and Donald Trump, on one issue the two have much in common. Both the current and former administrations have employed tariffs and other restrictions to help special interests at the expense of average North Carolinians and their counterparts in other states. When Trump was in...
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The Debrief: Shining more light on NCInnovation
This week on “The Debrief”: President Biden returns to Raleigh. The North Carolina Republican Party elects a new chairman. Primary election results are in the books. Carolina Journal digs deeper into the details of NCInnovation. CJ shines light on state budget reserve funds that hide spending increases. Lawmakers take another look at plans to reduce...
Opinion
Winners still flirt with swing voters
Carolina Journal’s first post-primary survey is out. It shows our state’s 2024 general elections will be, as usual, quite competitive. That’s not to say North Carolina’s electorate is perfectly purple. It’s not. All other things being equal, Republicans enjoy a modest edge statewide of a few percentage points. As John Locke Foundation analyst Andy Jackson...
