This summer I took calls from dozens of reporters across the country. A couple of questions were repeated time and again: How could North Carolina Republicans have moved so far to the right? How have... Read More
On the five-year anniversary of the U.S. financial meltdown, former Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson said on Sunday the country can count on more financial crises to come, but hopefully none the size... Read More
At the end of his first term, George Bush was asked what he would have done differently. He couldn’t think of one thing. Everything was lovely despite wars without end, 9/11, exploding deficits and... Read More
Editorial by Durham Herald-Sun, September 15, 2013. Apparently, the definition of “local input” is open for rather broad interpretation when it comes to how the North Carolina Department of... Read More
Editorial by Fayetteville Observer, September 15, 2013. Here are some important things to bear in mind as the UNC System and the rest of us take a few months to think through a proposal to raise the... Read More
North Carolina consumers could be the biggest losers after one of three insurance carriers that applied to participate in the Obamacare federal exchange announced its decision on Thursday to withdraw... Read More
Thirty years ago this month, it looked like the North Carolina Republican Party might have a bruising primary for the nomination to replace Gov. Jim Hunt, who was nearing the end of his second term... Read More
John Steele Gordon shares with Barron’s readers some of the historical background for the current American health care predicament. … [O]nce policies and programs start, they foster... Read More
Recent media reports have highlighted large salaries and raises given to young Department of Health and Human Services staffers who worked on Gov. Pat McCrory’s campaign, but what’s been less... Read More
Editorial by Jacksonville Daily News, September 11, 2013. The back-and-forth over the Affordable Care Act, otherwise known as Obama-care, has gotten so divorced from reality that it’s hard to tell... Read More
