These are fraught times in the United States. Elected leaders are racing headfirst down some treacherous and uncharted paths, and at such a moment, it’s easy to lose perspective and get carried …
On July 14, Roman Storm's trial — on charges of conspiracy to commit money laundering, operating an unlicensed money-transmitting business, and violating U.S. sanctions — began in a …
If I didn’t believe public-policy research mattered, I wouldn’t have spent so much of my career commissioning and funding it. At the national level, studies conducted by …
When I recently reviewed my columns of past years, I was surprised I hadn’t written about “the debt” — meaning the national debt — in six years. If anything, concerns …
Ho hum…another hot summer day in North Carolina that ended in torrential rain and catastrophic flooding. That was the cap to this past holiday weekend in central North Carolina. An early …
As I write this, the known death toll of floods in Texas stands at 104, including dozens of children from summer camps dotting the affected area. That number will likely increase. …
North Carolina continues to enjoy one of America’s fastest rates of population growth, adding some 165,000 new residents in 2024 alone. That was the fourth-largest numerical gain in the country …
From the beginning of his tenure in the North Carolina General Assembly, it’s always been evident that Thom Tillis was not a true right-wing, authoritarian extremist. Arch-conservative – …
"John Marshall has made his decision" regarding relations between the Cherokee Nation and the United States, U.S. President Andrew Jackson supposedly said of the U..S Supreme Court's chief …
I’m a conservative without a conversion story. Plenty of others have such a tale — they read a certain book, had a certain teacher, or somehow became disenchanted with their previous, …
Seventy years after President Dwight D. Eisenhower warned about the cost of a military-industrial complex, America is still stealing from its own people to fund a global empire. In 2025 alone, the …
The temperature soared to the century mark in Raleigh on Monday, tying the record for the city’s warmest June 23 on record, and the surge of oppressive heat seems as if it may have helped spur …
"[F]rom now on," U.S. President Donald Trump wrote in his Truth Social temper tantrum over anti-ICE protests in Los Angeles, "MASKS WILL NOT BE ALLOWED to be worn at protests." I …
Fiscal negotiations between the North Carolina House and Senate appear to have stalled out for now, with the two chambers too far apart on the timing and magnitude of future tax cuts to strike …
Although I have lived and worked in North Carolina for almost 50 years, I wasn’t born in this wonderful state. I was born and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio. Like many people, I continue to …
A somewhat older friend and I were driving home from a restaurant and as we passed a senior living facility, he remarked that he and his wife had put their names on a waiting list at that place and …
Ashe County in far northwest North Carolina would seem like an unusual place for a large and energetic protest march — especially one that targeted the actions of a recently elected Republican …
On June 12, Axios reported, the U.S. regime refused to support Israeli strikes on Iran ... but U.S. President Donald Trump said such strikes "might very well happen" even though he wouldn't want …
In Trump’s America, the bar for martial law is no longer constitutional — it’s personal. Indeed, if ever we needed proof that Donald Trump was an operative for the Deep State, this …
Modern public policy debates — particularly those surrounding matters of government budgeting — frequently delve into and hinge on complex issues of public finance and economic …