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Bessent ends G20 Asheville meeting with Iran message
In Asheville speech, Treasury secretary says US and China have common interests on nuclear weapons and Strait of Hormuz.
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Asheville chosen for 2026 G20 Finance Track meetings
US Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent announced that the 2026 G20 Finance Track will host meetings in Asheville.
Opinion
Companies do good by serving consumers
North Carolina businesses are generous donors of time and money to worthy causes across our state and beyond. Major corporations such as Truist, Duke Energy, Blue Cross Blue Shield, and Bank of America give tens of millions of dollars a year to charities through their respective foundations. Many other companies, large and small, aid nonprofits...
Opinion
I was once a National Conservatism skeptic, but the ideas are needed
I attended the third National Conservativism conference in Miami and was pleasantly surprised by what I heard. I went skeptical: “nationalism” left a bad taste in my mouth, and I was sure I would find rabid Donald Trump supporters, QAnon types, or people who despised those from other countries. None of my preconceptions were true....
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Agonizing: Cooper’s response to pandemic inconsistent, clumsy, hurtful
Agonizing. These lockdowns, mandates, and suppressions in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Logically inconsistent, clumsy in their application, and impossible to enforce. We’ve become prisoners of this virus, without imminent hope of reprieve. Potential treatments are enmeshed in politics, thrust into a media culture replete with influencers and pundits spewing confusion and toxicity. We wear...
Opinion
We can’t go back, and that’s the problem
During the “dog days” of summer, in what was likely an opening salvo of the 2020 presidential campaign, Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts introduced a proposal to alter American capitalism radically. If enacted, large firms would have to incorporate at the federal level and live by a charter that forces them to consider the interests...
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Friday Interview: Fighting College Free-Speech Restrictions
RALEIGH — Stroll through a college campus, and you expect to hear debate about a range of good, bad, and even crazy ideas. But too many colleges place limits on debate or restrict the free exchange of ideas to small, out-of-the-way sections of campus. Robert Shibley, senior vice president of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, recently discussed higher education free-speech restrictions with Mitch Kokai for Carolina Journal Radio.
Opinion
Dissenting From The New CW
On widely reported shake-ups in the Democratic and Republican races for president, count me skeptical.
Opinion
A Model For Stagnation & Pessimism
On the whole, Europe would be better off if it moved closer to the American model.
Opinion
No. 133:Nothing Is Sacred: Barro Writes Against the Grain
Considering the vast number of economists trained in leftist universities and fed socialist soup, it’s refreshing to encounter some who found truth or who got mugged by economic reality. Robert J. Barro is one such person. Noted Harvard professor, economic consultant, and author, Barro also admits to having experienced this deep-seated university tilt.
