Roughly everyone in the United States — with the possible exception of teacher-union leaders and their pet politicians — knew that learning losses from COVID-era school shutdowns were going to be big. But the latest results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) still retained their power to shock. From 2020 to 2022, average...
Regardless of your position on the abortion debate, we can all agree that progressives have backed themselves into an ideological corner. It is entirely of their own doing. They have lost their collective moral authority on body autonomy. After the U.S. Supreme Court leak of a draft opinion that would overturn Roe v. Wade, progressives...
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The University of North Carolina System could be forced to refund portions of fees charged to students across the state in spring 2020, depending on the outcome of a case heard Tuesday morning at the N.C. Court of Appeals.
To say North Carolina is bouncing back is not to say everyone is coming along for the bouncy ride. Still, things could be worse. In most the country, in fact, they are.
A 2-1 ruling from the N.C. Court of Appeals Tuesday criticized a trial judge for limiting a defendant’s in-person access to attorneys during the COVID-19 pandemic. The decision could have an impact during future health scares. “Hindsight is 20/20, and we recognize this Court has the benefit of hindsight but the trial court did not,”...
Voyager 1 was a NASA spacecraft launched in 1977 to explore the universe. In 1990, after its mission was complete, it exited the solar system and turned its camera around to photograph the planets. The resulting shot shows the earth as a single blue dot in a picture of over a million pixels. The earth...
Leaders could have opened schools much earlier than they did. They could have admitted that shuttering the economy was devastating, extreme, and wrong.
For the past two months—and much longer if I think back when our exchanges began—I have been at loggerheads with a close correspondent about the Trump years and what I refer to as President Biden’s Much Ado about Nothing moment in which “four of his five wits went halting off” (but that may be overgenerous). We...
This week marks the two-year anniversary of Gov. Roy Cooper’s state of emergency order due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, all 69 members of the N.C. House Republican caucus have signed a letter calling on Cooper to rescind the order and “allow the state to move forward.” The move comes as the U.S. Centers for...
Below are a few of the stories that caught my attention this week. At the Carolina Liberty Conference, we heard from Seth Dillon of the Babylon Bee. Dillon had a great line from his speech, saying, “It is very difficult to parody a world that is a parody of itself.” The stories below aren’t satire,...
