"What I want you to do," U.S. President Donald Trump told a South Carolina rally audience in August, "is pretend, please, that I’m on the ballot" when it's time to vote in the 2026 midterm election …
The top priority among voters this year is affordability. Various polls in North Carolina and other states ask the question in various ways — sometimes asking respondents about “affordability” …
On Sept. 4, Judge William Sullivan, of Massachusetts's Plymouth County Superior Court, declared a mistrial in the case of Commonwealth v. Lindsey Clancy. After seven days of deliberation, the jury …
Although I know full well that bad news draws more eyeballs than good news, I feel compelled to observe that something rather shocking — and promising — happened last week. Both major political …
What’s the point in celebrating the Constitution one day a year if we permit the government to violate it the other 364? Sept. 17 marks the anniversary of the signing of the U.S. Constitution, …
There are many reasons that a heck of a lot of people in 21st Century North Carolina — a modern, wealthy, high-tech society of more than 11 million — regularly face a harsh reality usually …
At the end of August, Florida's Department of Transportation ordered the removal of automated license plate readers from state road "rights-of-way." Several Florida counties and cities have since …
When economist and Hoover Institution scholar Thomas Sowell famously observed that “there are no solutions, only tradeoffs,” the North Carolina native wasn’t suggesting that public-policy …
As the North Carolina Supreme Court begins a new session, we need to remember what this court is supposed to be. It is supposed to be a check on power. It is supposed to protect our constitutional …
As of Sept. 8, Forbes reports, more than 100,000 people have signed a petition asking organizers of New York City's 9/11 Commemoration Ceremony to "carefully consider whether [New York City mayor …
According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, North Carolina experienced no net job growth in July. Indeed, employers as a whole reported 3,000 fewer people on the payroll in July than in May. …
The battle over whether capitalism or socialism is the best system for organizing our economy continues. In some localities, the debate is entering the test phase with socialist practices being …
When it comes to understanding and assessing the never-ending barrage of new state voting rules and election law changes that North Carolina Republicans continue to advance, it would be one thing if …
"California," Milo Yiannopoulos wrote last year on X, "needs ICE checkpoints at supermarket entrances, gas stations, strip malls, intersections and government buildings, with on the spot deportation …
“You are entitled to your opinion,” the late Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan famously said. “But you are not entitled to your own facts.” Although I agree with his underlying sentiment, …
When Amazon announced its $10 billion data center investment in North Carolina, we made a promise to be a good neighbor. A project of this scale raises questions; that's why we're hosting an open …
What began publicly as Donald Trump’s lavish, taxpayer-funded vision of a gilded White House ballroom is now being justified by the administration — in and out of court — as a matter of …
When North Carolina’s State Board of Elections met Aug. 20 to decide early voting options for 20 counties where local boards couldn’t agree, it surprised no one that Auditor Dave Boliek’s GOP …
In late 1861, Union soldiers in Bloomfield, Missouri, found the local newspaper's office empty and decided to put it to good use. Stars and Stripes covered the activities of the three Illinois …
One of the most-compelling parts of Stephanie Slade’s invaluable new book "Fusionism: Liberty, Virtue, and the Future of the American Right" is her discussion of J.D. Vance’s political …