Opinion
N.C. Primary Results Still Matter
If Ted Cruz fails to stop Donald Trump, how Pat McCrory and other GOP candidates for state office fare will tell us a great deal about the future of Republican politics.
News
Cruz Argues He Is Conservative Answer To Trump
Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz suggested at a standing-room-only campaign stop in Raleigh on Tuesday that U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Florida, and Ohio Gov. John Kasich should fold their flagging campaigns and join him to defeat businessman and reality-show star Donald Trump. Rubio and Kasich “are good, honorable men,” Cruz, a Republican U.S. senator from...
Opinion
Primaries Expose Prediction Limits
If elections are hard to predict, just imagine how hard it is to make accurate predictions about systems that are even more complicated, such as an economy.
Opinion
Iowa Offers Lesson for N.C.
The states of Iowa and North Carolina have at least two things in common. First, they are the nation’s top producers of hogs. Second, they are often overrun with politicians desperate to attract attention and votes. But I repeat myself. Now that we know the results of the Iowa caucuses, the 2016 political landscape is...
Opinion
Nomination May Tip State Races
North Carolina is now a highly competitive state. While Republicans have won most of the recent contests, Democrats retain significant political strengths.
Podcast
Thanks To Tax Reform, Tar Heels Keep More Of Their Money
Roy Cordato on next steps in tax reform; Ted Cruz on Obamacare issues; lawmakers on deal to lower electric bills in eastern NC; Richard Vedder on why markets address problems better than government; Katherine Restrepo on Medicaid lessons from other states
