Labor force shouldn’t be shrinking
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.
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NAACP wants felons to vote, while nullifying your ballot
The NAACP is backing an effort to add more than 50,000 felons to North Carolina’s voting rolls. At the same time, they are trying to nullifying 9.6 million votes from law-abiding citizens. Even worse: The group won’t stop with a current lawsuit at the state Supreme Court involving felons…
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Forgotten men and women: ‘the unvaccinated’ also includes the naturally immune
“The forgotten man” was how President Franklin Delano Roosevelt characterized ordinary people who needed his New Deal policies to build back up the American economy around them. In her history of the Great Depression titled “The Forgotten Man,” author and economics commentator Amity Schlaes showed that the forgotten…
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Income and poverty facts matter
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.
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Race and the consequence of ideas in the classroom
[Editor’s note: This is part three of a three-part series from Joshua Peters on the discussion of race and the teaching of American history. Part one is available here and part two can be found here.] One may feel that we have reached the…
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Cooper’s all in on critical race theory
What’s controversial about saying one race or sex is not inherently greater than another?…
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Biden’s mandate goes too far
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.
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We should be tellers of history and not judges
[Editor’s note: This is part two of a three-part series from Joshua Peters on the discussion of race and the teaching of American history. Part one is available here.] In an effort to delineate in precise terms those responsible for black suffrage, there are three areas of…
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‘Global Whiteness’ class embarrassing even for UNC
The rewriting of history is reaching new and absurd levels if World War II can be blamed on the Allies and not the Axis powers.
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Trade lifts North Carolina economy
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.