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Goldberg book tells valuable tales
Forcibly changing social institutions and traditions without fully understanding their origins, complexities, and consequences can produce disaster.
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It’s a family newspaper
Opinion
Despite campaign rhetoric, most opponents aren’t enemies
A U.S. official who deals daily with tyrants and rogue regimes asks us to put our political divisions in perspective.
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NOT … ‘the talk’
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Housing choices reflect political divide
Progressive Democrats and conservative Republicans tend to disagree about growth policy not because of external pressure by special-interest groups but because their preferences are fundamentally different.
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Messaging problem
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Stay the course in 2018 for short-session success
The N.C. General Assembly is scheduled to return for the 2018 short legislative session on Wednesday, May 16. There’s speculation on what they will do and just how short the short session will be. Analysts and lobbyists are asking where they will go and what it will mean beyond the summer of 2018. The best answer...
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Let them in?
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Economic freedom, press freedom go hand in hand
Freedom of the press and the freedom to operate in a free and open market is critical to maintaining the ideals of liberty and democracy. Those points are unassailable. Going further, snarky, mean-spirited and even physically threatening attacks on credible journalists must stop. Curbing or regulating the Fourth Estate unsettles an indispensable pilar, the failure...
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Clear as mud
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Cooper retains some McCrory policies
Roy Cooper knows that winning one of the closest gubernatorial election in American history, by two-tenths of a percentage point, wasn’t exactly a compelling mandate for full-throated progressivism.
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