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Two years ago, in a Veterans Day piece called “Remembering World War I,” I  suggested that the Great War and its aftermath has something important to teach us about the value and fragility of our liberal, democratic institutions. Sadly, the need to learn that lesson is even more urgent today…

Transparency, planning, and follow through. State leaders should give businesses more than a few hours’ notice, so they could figure out ways to keep or sustain employees. Also, the Employment Security Commission was not adequately prepared to handle the volume of applications. The people who were thrown into unemployment through…

We believe the Governor should have taken a regional approach by allowing schools and businesses to remain open in areas with very low infection outbreaks rather than a blanket approach. He should have applied the same standard to high-risk populations; allowed those at very low risk of infection to continue…

As Constitution Day approached, I started thumbing through Seth Lipsky’s The Citizen’s Constitution, one of my favorites guides to the nation’s governing document. The 2009 book adds valuable context to constitutional provisions. It also tells great stories. Lipsky reminds us that that the Constitution has played an important role…

Of course we do!  And it comes from the public school reports. We’ve simply complied it for you and will let the facts/data speak for themselves: According to the 2020 North Carolina Teacher Working Conditions Survey: 38% of teachers say that their students do not follow the rules of…

Across America, millions of people have lost their jobs due to the COVID-19 outbreak. More than just their incomes, many of these people lost their employer sponsored health insurance (ESI). This week, JLF’s Jordan Roberts explained how North Carolina could improve the health insurance market by making a change. Roberts…

The benefits of Medicaid transformation have focused on the issue from the cost/government perspective.  What are the tangible net benefits to actual current Medicaid recipients? JLF’s Health Care policy analyst, Jordan Roberts answers: Managed care ideally will create a new insurance product for the Medicaid enrollees. The enrollees will now…

John Staddon uses a Martin Center column to ponder the role of grades. The reality of human difference—difference in every aspect from height, weight, and beauty to intelligence and industriousness—has become a huge problem for America. Many people simply can’t accept it. A big problem with grades is that…