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Recent cases muddy waters of Title IX compliance

Recent legal battles have created confusion about the future of Title IX, the federal law designed to prohibit sex-based discrimination in American education. Campbell University’s Title IX coordinator tried Monday to help the John Locke Foundation’s Shaftesbury Society make sense of the rapidly changing legal landscape. Kellie Slappey Nothstine reminded her audience that a law...

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Obamacare’s problems continue to mount

From Carolina Journal Radio Program No. 683: The Affordable Care Act’s failures continue to multiply. Katherine Restrepo, the John Locke Foundation’s health and human services policy analyst, reacts to the latest bad news for the 2010 law popularly known as Obamacare.

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Interstate 77 toll lane critics continue to push their case

From Carolina Journal Radio Program No. 683: Critics of the Interstate 77 toll lane project north of Charlotte continue to make their case in the halls of the state Legislative Building. You’ll hear highlights from committee debate on the issue, including a warning from the N.C. Department of Transportation about the uncertainty linked to proposals...

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Opportunity more important than inequality in public policy debates

From Carolina Journal Radio Program No. 683: Politicians and pundits on the ideological left have focused much of their attention in recent years on income inequality. That focus is misplaced, according to Tyler Cowen, professor of economics at George Mason University and director of that school’s Mercatus Center. Cowen reframes the inequality debate and focuses...

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Voters narrow the field in 2016 congressional, Supreme Court elections

From Carolina Journal Radio Program No. 683: North Carolina voters set the table this month for November’s congressional elections, and they narrowed the field in the contest for a swing seat on the N.C. Supreme Court. Carolina Journal Managing Editor Rick Henderson dissects the voters’ June 7 primary choices. He also discusses how those choices...

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Trump nominates Bishop to be deputy director for budget at OMB

"Dan has been a tireless fighter for our MAGA Movement in the House of Representatives on the Judiciary and Homeland Security Committees," Trump said in a press release issued Tuesday night. "Dan will implement my cost-cutting and deregulatory agenda across all Agencies, and root out the Weaponized Deep State."

Theresa Opeka
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Democrats want federal court to address GOP challenge of 60,000 NC ballots

The North Carolina Democratic Party filed a lawsuit Friday to ensure challenges of 60,000 ballots in the state's latest election are addressed in federal court. Republicans filed the challenges with the State Board of Elections. The challenges could affect the outcome of the state Supreme Court race between Democrat Allison Riggs and Jefferson Griffin, along with a handful of state legislative contests.

CJ Staff
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Griffin asks Appeals Court to order decision on election protests by Tuesday

Republican North Carolina Supreme Court candidate Jefferson Griffin is turning to North Carolina’s second-highest court for an order that would force state election officials to make a final decision about Griffin’s election protests Tuesday. The State Board of Elections had planned to hear oral arguments about the protests the following day, according to a document Griffin filed Friday with the state Court of Appeals.

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Locke’s Mitch Kokai responds to AG Jackson’s lawsuit over SNAP benefits

Mitch Kokai, John Locke Foundation senior political analyst, discusses North Carolina Attorney General Jeff Jackson joining Democratic counterparts in other states in a federal lawsuit against the Trump administration. It focuses on Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits. Kokai offered these comments during the Oct. 31, 2025, edition of PBS North Carolina’s “State Lines.”

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Locke’s Donald Bryson discusses SCOTUS case dealing with Trump’s emergency tariffs

Donald Bryson, John Locke Foundation CEO and Carolina Journal publisher, discusses the US Supreme Court case addressing President Donald Trump’s emergency tariffs. Locke filed a joint amicus brief challenging the constitutionality of emergency tariffs. Bryson offered these comments during the Oct. 28, 2025, episode of Spectrum News’ “Capital Tonight.”

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Carolina Journal’s Donna King analyzes NC congressional redistricting plans

Donna King, Carolina Journal editor-in-chief, discusses the North Carolina General Assembly’s plans to redraw the state’s congressional election map. King offered these comments during the Oct. 17, 2025, edition of PBS North Carolina’s “State Lines.”

Donna King
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Podcast: Revolutionary Roads

As the United States prepares to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution in 2026, this podcast explores North Carolina’s pivotal role in the nation’s founding — from the War of Regulation to the Battle of Guilford Courthouse and beyond. This 10-episode series, hosted by John Locke Foundation CEO Donald Bryson, features guests with...

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The Debrief: Legislator arrested, Iryna’s Law aftermath, Oct. 7 remembered

This week on The Debrief, a Guilford County legislator’s arrest on sex-related charges prompts quick reaction from colleagues. Gov. Josh Stein chose an unusual way to signal his signing of Iryna’s Law. We discuss the governor’s video message and get expert analysis of the law’s potential impact. We also highlight a possible federal response. Lawmakers at the...

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For healthy civil society, politics needs to stay in its lane

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...

David Larson
Opinion

Flashback: North Carolina’s Easter Monday tradition forged on the baseball diamond

On Good Friday state offices will be closed in North Carolina for Holy Week, along with 10 other states. However, that has not always been the case in North Carolina. The Monday after Easter — rather than Good Friday — was a legal holiday in North Carolina for 52 years, and for many years before...

Dallas Woodhouse