The Covid-19 pandemic may be the biggest story of our lifetimes, impacting us for decades. In a new book titled “Economics in One Virus,” author Ryan Bourne shows how the circumstances, debates, and policies related to dealing with the pandemic and its accompanying recession can be used…
When it comes to managing North Carolina’s finances, the conservatives in charge of the legislature are in tune with prevailing public sentiment.
After the global “surprise” of a Covid pandemic, it is vital to prepare for events once thought unthinkable. Unchecked, America is headed for default. Economic experts now predict double-digit inflation before the end of the year. Massive trillion-dollar deficits are estimated to push the nation’s debt to a staggering $30…
One of the great legacies of North Carolina history and our nation was the explosion of the American civil rights movement. As a leader in that movement, Martin Luther King Jr. continually appealed to our strengths as a nation: The American founding, the rule of law, and the Christian tradition.
Loosely defined, the phrase “liberal arts” refers to courses in Western philosophy, theology, literature, art, and history, with science and foreign languages playing a real but secondary role. For the ancient Greeks and many modern Westerners, the liberal arts have been thought necessary to cultivate good citizenship in a government…
One recent study projects that home-based work will account for 20% of full workdays in the United States, up from 5% before the COVID crisis.
The U.S. Senate voted 51-48 on May 25 to confirm Kristen Clarke to head the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Civil Rights Division. She will lead a Civil Rights Division (CRD) of the DOJ that has become less a race-neutral enforcer of civil rights laws and more a government…
Instead of duking it out for customers, two regional health care giants will vie for a government permission slip.
Improving access to health care is about more than who pays the bill. It’s about the size of that bill, and who possesses the information and the incentives to make decisions about it.
The death of George Floyd on May 25, 2020, sparked an extraordinary wave of anti-police protests. While most of those protests were peaceful, many turned violent as protestors or interlopers resorted to looting and rioting. Billions of dollars’ worth of property was stolen or destroyed, buildings were burned to the…
