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Transportation Funding
Introduction North Carolina has more than 80,000 miles of state-owned highways, more than any other state besides Texas. Unlike Texas, where state roads are one-fourth of the total 313,000 miles of roads in the state, North…
Exposing two new stories of FBI corruption
Editors at Issues and Insights highlight bad news for one of the nation’s best-known law enforcement agencies. We have been writing about the weaponization of government under the Obama and Biden regimes for many years, but…
DEI found its way into Georgia Medicaid
Shawn Fleetwood writes for the Federalist about a problem plaguing a neighboring state’s Medicaid program. Elected Republicans may have declared war on leftists’ racist DEI ideology in state governments across the country.…
Trump axed $5M for Abrams’ climate group
Thomas Catrenacci of the Washington Free Beacon documents another controversial use of taxpayer money. Rewiring America, the climate group where Democratic activist Stacey Abrams served as senior counsel, quietly banked more…
Trump tackles affordability narrative
Brittany Bernstein writes for National Review Online about the president’s latest economic message. President Trump attempted to take control of the narrative around the rising cost of living in the U.S. during a triumphant…
Campus censorship peaked in 2025
Abigail Anthony writes for National Review Online about a negative report on college campus speech. The censorship of students on campus reached a record high this year, according to a new report from the Foundation for…
Tax Reform
Introduction For many years, economists and tax policy researchers maintained that North Carolina’s tax system needed a major overhaul. The system was a model of hodgepodge tax policy with high marginal rates on personal and…
Tackling WSJ ‘fearmongering’ about gun ownership
John Lott writes for Real Clear Wire about one major media outlet’s spin on recent gun-related stories. Legally armed civilians, we’re told, pose a major danger. They shoot innocent bystanders, justifiably kill others…
Government spending per person grew 10,000% over century
M.D. Kittle writes for the Federalist about a mind-boggling report related to government spending. Arguably the height of hypocrisy for the American left is the audacious Make America Affordable Again campaign launched by…
Yale, Princeton help bankroll company working with Chinese military
Jon Levine writes for the Washington Free Beacon about a disturbing business relationship involving two Ivy League schools. A Chinese investment firm—lavishly funded by some of the United States’ most elite institutions,…
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