Opinion

Exploring North Carolina led me to Venezuela and back 

One thing Gov. Roy Cooper’s absurd 20-month state of emergency has afforded me is the ability to explore this great state without much hassle. I know he didn’t mean to provide me that opportunity, but I seized it nonetheless.   With gas stations and roadways open, I searched for North Carolina’s iconic photos — the Biltmore,...

Amy Cooke
News

Venezuelan student activist recounts horrors of socialism to U.S. peers

Andrés Guilarte was sitting in a university lecture when a fellow student began crying and choking. Tear gas was seeping through a classroom window. Police had targeted Guilarte’s school, the Central University of Venezuela, in response to student protests. Guilarte himself led a student group at his university, “Estudiantes por la Libertad,” or Students For...

Brooke Conrad
Opinion

From the Green New Deal to Venezuela: A million percent inflation and all

As the specifics — and many of the absurd objectives — of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal have come to light, the common refrain from Democrats who support it is that the plan is “aspirational.” In other words, they believe that the world Ocasio-Cortez envisions is somehow ideal. It is the world we all...

Dr. Roy Cordato

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