Some advocates of "fair" election maps want competitive races that are likely to lead to a nearly even split of contested seats between the major parties. Those goals rarely coexist.
In her classic novel Little Women, Louisa May Alcott has her character Margaret gaze bitterly at the family’s frostbitten garden and proclaim that “November is the most disagreeable month in the whole year.” The protagonist, her sister Jo, offers a pensive reply: “That’s the reason I was born in it.” I don’t see November that...
On Oct. 10, the North Carolina General Assembly overrode Gov. Roy Cooper’s veto on critical election integrity legislation, Senate Bill 747. One aspect of the new law is a ban on accepting corrosive private funds for conducting elections, making North Carolina the 26th state to do so. These bans are aimed at preventing ideologically biased...
The humanities as an academic subject are vital to developing the minds of each generation and binding us together with common understanding of who we are, what we believe, and how we should act. But in a nation starkly divided on most foundational issues, is attempting to cobble together a coherent humanities curriculum even possible?...
My household recently dealt with the self-inflicted turmoil of changing schools two months into the academic year. There were a number of reasons we made the decision to pursue this option, but chief among them was the attitude reflected in a single comment made by my child’s teacher: “Big people talk; little people listen.” When...
How did we miss it? Yet it has happened. We urged each other to “Never forget!” But did we ever really think we could be so callous, so loose with the truth that it would give way to what we are witnessing? Far-left mobs rally in favor of the Hamas murderers and against Israel on campuses...
As we round off the first half of the scholastic year, many in North Carolina are preparing for the holiday season, when their homes will be bustling with children and extended family members. During this hectic time of the year, how many parents will actually stop to ask themselves this very important question: who is...
