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John Locke Foundation CEO Amy Cooke, “The Right AOC,” condemns recent violence at the U.S. Capitol. She also shares her concerns about the response to the violence from Big Tech and the political Left. Contact Amy at [email protected] Follow her at https://www.facebook.com/TheRightAOC and https://twitter.com/TheRightAOC.

Do school re-openings dramatically increase the chance of contracting Covid-19? The conventional wisdom said yes and helped to justify school closures and transitions to virtual learning. Nearly ten months into a pandemic, however, no one is happy with the paths many schools have taken; teachers are anxious and tressed; students…

The North Carolina Association of Educators (NCAE) sent a letter to Gov. Cooper, imploring him to “take immediate and significant executive action to again curb community spread of this virus until such time that infection rates are again under control.” Curiously, NCAE leaders fail to identify what constitutes…

With civic and political conflict headlining the news nearly every day, I’ve been searching for a bright spot on which to pin my hopes for reconciliation in this country. I’ve found a glimmer, thanks to Carolina Journal Opinion Editor Ray Nothstine. Ray writes about the collapse of civic…

Ben Weingarten writes for the Federalist about D.C. Democrats’ blatant attempt to turn last week’s Capitol chaos into partisan gains. The Capitol Hill riot was an inexcusable, pathetic, and disgraceful display. Its consequences will extend well beyond the bloodshed and property damage inflicted by those who shamefully acceded…

Naomi Lim of the Washington Examiner reports on special plans for President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration next week. Even before last week’s attack on the U.S. Capitol, President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration was going to buck tradition. Next Wednesday, there won’t be a crowd gathered on the National Mall to…

Kevin Daley of the Washington Free Beacon details the alarming history of a top Biden appointee. Kristen Clarke, President-elect Joe Biden’s pick to lead the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, advanced pseudoscientific theories of black racial superiority and organized an event with a notorious anti-Semite as a student…

David Goldman writes for National Review Online about China’s threatening economic plans. China has a plan to assimilate most of the world’s population into a virtual empire dominated by its telecommunications, computation, manufacturing, and logistics. You can read all about it on Huawei’s English-language website, and hear it…