Mitch Kokai

Lindsay Marchello and Kari Travis report for Carolina Journal Online on education-related measures moving through the N.C. Senate. The Daily Journal lists questions U.S. Supreme Court justices could have asked — but didn’t — about North Carolina’s congressional election map.

George Leef devotes his latest Martin Center column to the purported ills of for-profit higher education. For about fifteen years, from 1995 to 2010, enrollments grew rapidly in the for-profit higher education sector, but since then have fallen substantially. The reason for the decline is mainly the overt hostility…

Colin Wilhelm shares with Washington Examiner readers good news about an important occupational licensing reform. Depending on the state, it might take a license to wield a blow-dryer professionally. Or decorate the interiors of homes. Or teach ballroom dancing. Arizona, like most states, requires substantial training to grant…

Charles Fain Lehman of the Washington Free Beacon highlights new research that questions one critique of judicial elections. Harsh sentencing may have less to do with judges’ responsiveness to “tough-on-crime” voters than commonly imagined, new research released Monday suggests. Research from economists Christian Dippel (UCLA) and Michael Poyker…

Mike Brest of the Daily Caller explores media interest in one particular Democratic presidential candidate. Independent Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders was mentioned on the cable news networks last week nearly twice as often as any other Democratic presidential candidate, according to a FiveThirtyEight article published Monday. Sanders was…

Kevin Williamson of National Review Online asks readers to question government experts who claim to offer the best answers to complicated questions. The things that make people want to put czars in charge of complicated and intractable problems are also the things that make it a terrible idea…

David French of National Review Online critiques Democratic rhetoric linked to recent election results. We’re reaching a dangerous point in American politics. Many millions of our most engaged and most politically passionate citizens fervently believe that when they lose close elections, it’s because the other side has “stolen”…

Dan Way reports for Carolina Journal Online on N.C. House Republicans’ proposed alternative to Medicaid expansion. John Hood’s Daily Journal explains why rail transit doesn’t fit North Carolina’s transportation needs.