Budget, Taxation & Economy
At the state legislature, Locke advocates for limiting the expenditure of tax dollars and strictly limiting its tax burdens on families and businesses.
Keeping the Peace Through Intensive Community Policing
As crime soars and the breakdown of public order takes its toll on our country, analysis from the John Locke Foundation signals it’s time to adopt a different approach to…
Avoiding the Left’s ‘Antitrust Trap’
Robert Bork Jr. offers National Review Online readers a warning about rewriting federal antitrust law. When Daniel Oliver, the chairman of the Federal Trade Commission under Ronald Reagan, comes out…
D.C. Dems Propose Controversial $3.5 Trillion Spending Bill
Philip Klein of National Review Online urges Republicans to reject the latest Democratic spending plan on Capitol Hill. If there was ever any doubt about whether Republicans should abandon the…
Economic Rorschach Test
In psychology, a Rorschach test is one in which the patient is presented with a series of inkblot images, and how the patients perceive the images helps inform the psychologist…
Nearly 90% of Covid Relief Funds Allotted to School Districts Still Unspent
K-12 public school districts in North Carolina have received about $6 billion in federal funds to help address the coronavirus pandemic. On average, since last March, school districts have spent…
The NC Threat-Free Index and Immunity Update for the Week Ending July 12
Over 99.9% of people in NC posed no threat of passing along COVID-19 to anyone, and an estimated 73.7% of adult North Carolinians are immune.
Changing Young People’s Minds About Socialism
Samuel Gregg writes for National Review Online about changing popular misconceptions about socialism. Young Americans like socialism. That’s one finding of a new Axios/Momentive poll surveying American attitudes toward topics…
New Carolina Journal Online Features
John Trump reports for Carolina Journal Online on John Locke Foundation experts’ recommendations for reining in the governor’s executive powers. A new CJ Opinion highlights Wednesday’s fifth anniversary of an…
Setting Up an International Tax Cartel
Victoria Taft writes at PJMedia.com about problems associated with a global minimum tax. If you want to stick it to big corporations and rein in their real or perceived abuses,…
New Cases Have Bottomed Out as Cooper, Media Whip Up “Delta” Fears
Regardless, with his ongoing emergency declaration, Cooper has left the door to reinstating tyranny open, as he continues to force schoolkids to breathe through pathogen-filled cloth all day. Very few other…
Operation Warp Speed, Industrial Policy, and the Truth
Scott Lincicome writes at National Review Online to dispel myths involving Operation Warp Speed. As President Biden picks up the “industrial policy” baton from Donald Trump, it has become accepted…
‘Get Busy Living’: Bladen Journal Takes the Dufresne Refrain to Covid
Editor Alan Wooten has better thoughts: "We’re in the middle of the summer we couldn’t have last year, with outings and festivities back in place. We’re meeting and greeting, most…