NC Spin Articles


S.O.S.: Calling for Erskine Bowles

by D. G. Martin, One on One and host of NC Bookwatch on UNC-TV, April 15, 2018. Where is Erskine Bowles when we most need him? Bowles is best known to North Carolinians as president of the UNC System...    Read More

April 16, 2018

Deeper discussion needed on schools

Massachusetts has consistently been at or near the top of the list in reading and math achievement, according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). This is a fact. The policy...    Read More

by John Hood   |   April 16, 2018



Youth smoking on the increase

I promised myself that I was not going to let myself get outraged in 2018.  Everybody is outraged about something these days, so what’s the point?  But a presentation at the recent North Carolina...    Read More

April 12, 2018

Justice Ginsburg in Durham

I ask no favor for my sex. All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks,” U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg told me the other day in Durham. The 85-year-old...    Read More

by D. G. Martin   |   April 12, 2018


Peer pressure produces good policy

Peer pressure has been the reason, or at least the rationalization, for many a youthful indiscretion — not that I would know from personal experience. Actually, the effect doesn’t dissipate when...    Read More

by John Hood   |   April 12, 2018