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Today, the Senate Finance Committee approved SB 470, the Regulatory Sandbox bill. The legislation will now go to the Rules Committee before having a vote before the full Senate. In a recent research brief, my colleague Jon Sanders explained how the regulatory sandbox works: “What’s a regulatory sandbox?…

I spoke today at the General Assembly in favor of S725, entitled “Prohibit Private Money in Elections Admin.” The bill would ban the State Board of Elections and county boards of elections from accepting so-called “Zuck Bucks” from private groups. Much of the money…

This week, Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson’s task force – the one charged with looking at concerns over ideologically and politically slanted lessons being taught in North Carolina public schools – held its first meeting. Locke’s education expert, Dr. Terry Stoops, is a member of the group, officially called the …

Household debt has doubled since 2003. American households are now $14.56 trillion in debt (still far less than the U.S. government’s whopping $28 trillion) which shakes out to around $118,000 per household, according to Visual Capitalist. The chart below helps orient us to how the $14 trillion in…

Apparently, this is a real study published in a peer-reviewed academic journal by a medical physician in private practice.

On Monday our Shaftesbury Society forum looked at the controversy over the hiring of New York  Times reporter Nikole Hannah-Jones by UNC-Chapel Hill’s journalism school and the claims Hannah-Jones makes about the founding of our country in the 1619 Project.  Our guests included Peter Wood, President of the…

Megan Zogby writes for the Martin Center about serious problems plaguing high-profile institutions of higher learning. Parents will go to all sorts of lengths to give their children a leg up. In Guilty Admissions: The Bribes, Favors, and Phones Behind the College Cheating Scandal, journalist Nicole LaPorte digs into…

Kylee Zempel of the Federalist highlights flaws in Dr. Anthony Fauci’s dubious approach to pandemic policy. Whether Fauci was right or wrong — although hindsight and mass casualties have certainly teamed up to condemn him — all the doctor did was perform a cost-benefit analysis. It’s something you…