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DEI in NC medical schools and hospitals spark concerns over patient safety

Reports this week of a fourth-year medical student at Wake Forest University School of Medicine’s impending graduation drew questions not only about why she was being allowed to graduate but also about how diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) is affecting those going into the medical field and the patients they will ultimately serve. 

Theresa Opeka
Opinion

Battle over 2020 election results may steal GOP’s 2024 chances

Unless something changes drastically, and quickly, Republicans seem to be on the path to lose the White House in 2024. The elephant in the room that threatens to keep the elephants out of the room — a large part of the GOP primary base believes the 2020 election was stolen, while another part of that...

David Larson
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Cooper’s school choice ‘temper tantrum’ draws national criticism

Since Monday, criticism of North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper has escalated after his decision to formally declare a state of emergency over an education bill with which he disagrees. Cooper, a longtime opponent of school choice, released a video statement Monday declaring a “State of Emergency.” However, the governor said he would not be filing...

Alex Baltzegar
Opinion

2 gun reforms conservatives can get behind

After the tragic killing of more than 20 people at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, by a lone gunman on May 24, and the killing of 10 black Buffalo residents by a white supremacist 10 days earlier in a grocery store, the nation has been collectively grieving and gripped by righteous anger. Much of...

David Larson

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Case studies in ‘free speech’

What follows are examples of efforts to quell commentary at both public and private university campuses throughout North Carolina. 2009: The speaker Shattered glass and pepper spray polluted the scene of a UNC-Chapel Hill protest that shut down a 2009 speech from former U.S. Rep Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., who opposes illegal immigration. In a wild altercation...

Kari Travis
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Protests At Shapiro Speech Highlight Campus Tensions

Despite efforts that UNC-Chapel Hill College Republicans say they’ve made to hold respectful discussions with left-wing protesters on campus, there’s little indication that discourse is likely to become more civil. On Wednesday, a combative talk about racial issues from conservative author and commentator Ben Shapiro was met with protest by members of the university’s Black Lives...

Kari Travis
Opinion

Shapiro Chronicles TV’s Liberal Propaganda Efforts

Ben Shapiro’s fascinating new book Primetime Propaganda: The True Hollywood Story of How the Left Took Over Your TV makes us think about television as we never have before, much in the same way Jonah Goldberg’s Liberal Fascism made us think about modern liberalism.

Sam A. Hieb