Opinion

Racial preferences are gone — now what?

As widely predicted, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has lost its admissions case before the U.S. Supreme Court. Six of nine justices decreed that neither UNC nor any other university that receives government funds may discriminate on the basis of race when choosing its students. That’s what UNC has been doing for...

John Hood
Opinion

To brief or not to brief: Roy Cooper’s bad Hamlet act

We’re all more suspicious of public health guidance than we used to be, but pandemic policy forced me and my goombahs into meeting weekly over a Zoom video feed rather than across coffee shop tables. While there’s no substitute for ordering a macchiato under cafe speakers where Mick Jagger and his bandmates are oozing their...

Patrick O’Hannigan
Opinion

Why we are losing the cyberwar

“The time has clearly come for the federal government to take on a larger role in the growing fight against cyber criminals.” This dangerous rhetoric comes from Rep. Deborah Ross’s July 16 opinion piece published by The Hill. Ross, a member of the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, also represents the Second District...

Carter Reilly

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Study comparing N.C. elections to North Korea’s called ‘bad science’

Experts are using terms such as “absurd,” and “silly” to describe a study, and an opinion column written by one of its founders, that purports North Carolina no longer is a functioning democracy, and that North Korea and Cuba rank higher for electoral integrity than the Tar Heel State. The issue gained national attention after...

Dan Way
News

Friday Interview: Students Turn to Essay Mills

RALEIGH — These days you can find pretty much anything you want on the Internet. Some college students are finding the Web to be a great source of getting out of work. They’re buying other people’s finished essays and term papers online. George Leef, director of research for the John W. Pope Center for Higher Education Policy, discussed this problem with Donna Martinez for Carolina Journal Radio.

CJ Staff