The Negotiators

VE Day is not just memory. It’s a mandate.

Americans should ask: Are we still a people who believe freedom is worth sacrifice? Do we still see leadership as service, not dominion? Are we still a nation capable of moral resolve?

Why are NC lawmakers copying Illinois’ worst swipe fee policy?

This swipe-fee scheme might sound sweet, but it’s likely to end in regret for NC consumers and small businesses.

Activists are wrong about camping bans

In a 2024 poll of NC voters, more than 80% of Democrats and Republicans said that it is more compassionate for homeless people to sleep in designated camping areas than to be left to sleep on the street.

Tariff cost

A public servant to the last

Most Americans, and probably most of the delegates in Philadelphia, were not yet ready to declare full independence. But North Carolina’s Richard Caswell was.