Freedom is a growth strategy
Most studies show that, after adjusting for a range of control variables, states and localities with higher degrees of economic freedom — lower taxes, fewer regulations — have stronger economic performance.
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Sessions renews fight against opioids amid skepticism
RALEIGH — It’s time to get aggressive in the fight against opioid addiction, said U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions during a Raleigh presentation on the nationwide opioid crisis. Sessions, the nation’s top law-enforcement officer, is a longstanding crusader in the war on drugs. Now he faces…
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Nearby successes don’t disprove conservatism
Do North Carolina progressives really want to point to the likes of deep-red South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida as economic models that rebut conservatism?…
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Ignoring race in redistricting could backfire on GOP, scholar says
Republicans chose to shun race as a consideration in remapping 28 legislative districts federal courts have deemed racial gerrymanders. Relying so heavily on that strategy might backfire as the case moves forward, a constitutional scholar says. While the GOP’s eventual goal is to maintain its supermajority…
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Cato’s Ilya Shapiro recaps key developments from U.S. Supreme Court’s 2016-17 term
The U.S. Supreme Court saw a rare personnel change in the past year, as Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch took the seat vacated when Antonin Scalia died in 2016. Ilya Shapiro, senior fellow in constitutional studies at the libertarian Cato Institute and editor-in-chief of the Cato Supreme Court Review, used a…
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State should not control alcohol
If your conception of freedom is that it ought only to extend to behavior with which you personally agree, you’ve conceived it out of existence.
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Cooper, intentionally or not, promotes civil society
Gov. Roy Cooper was talking like a libertarian. He probably didn’t even realize it. About a week ago, in his state of the state address, Cooper talked about many things. He discussed his budget plans and House Bill 2. He talked about education and…
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Scholars: North Carolina ranks No. 19 nationally in freedom index
North Carolina historians might lay claim to the state being first in freedom for its Colonial-era declarations of independence. But the most comprehensive instrument available to measure modern-day economic and personal freedom in the 50 states says it ranks only No. 19. Will Ruger and Jason Sorens,…
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Critic of Trump immigration order says market should govern refugee flow
A leading critic of President Donald Trump’s controversial executive order limiting refugee resettlements into the United States says not only is the annual ceiling of 50,000 refugees too low, but also that the government should not set it. If the inflow of refugees were regulated by family…
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Freedom rises In North Carolina
Even with the best of intentions, politicians should neither make our decisions for us nor remove us from responsibility for them. Politicians are not our parents.