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Poll exposes potential Achilles’ Heel for the...

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2025/10/07

There are more than a few modern American progressives who wish that the leaders on their side of the great national political divide possessed the same commitment to hardball, take-no-prisoners politics as their conservative adversaries. “Boy, we sure hate what they’re doing to our country,” goes the thinking that one often hears expressed, “but we […]

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North Carolina’s Zen governor

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2025/09/09

The governor of North Carolina earns an annual salary of a little over $200,000 per year. While it’s only about a fifth or less of what the average partner in a big law firm can expect to bring home and a fiftieth what the football coach at the state’s flagship university rakes in, it’s still […]

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The power of the Community Land Trust model in...

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2025/09/09

In Raleigh’s Idlewild neighborhood, where formerly enslaved people once secured land as a foothold to freedom, history is repeating itself in a new way. This summer, shovels hit the ground on 18 homes that will remain affordable—not just for the first buyers, but for every family who comes after them. In a state where housing […]

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Who’s picking up the tab?

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2025/09/08

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On holiday…

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2025/09/01

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A public school math lesson

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2025/08/25

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Medicaid ain’t what it was…

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2025/08/18

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Task force outlines some commonsense first steps to...

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2025/08/07

Early childhood education. Across much of the rest of the world, free, public early childhood education is a basic right. At a time in which it’s necessary for almost all parents to work in order to make ends meet, these nations have long recognized that there’s no good reason to hold off on providing […]

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A simple and commonsense tax proposal

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2025/08/06

Tax policy can be maddeningly complex and confusing. Indeed, keeping it that way is one tool the super-rich use to avoid paying their fair share. As Alexandra Sirota of the nonpartisan North Carolina Budget and Tax Center recently observed, however, it doesn’t have to be that way. As she notes, there’s a simple and […]

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Lack of air conditioning in state prisons is cruel...

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2025/08/05

There are many things that have changed for the better in North Carolina prisons over the last century. That said, it’s also true that North Carolina summers have always been miserably hot and that commercial air conditioning was first introduced nearly a century ago — facts that render the lack of air conditioning in […]

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New and damning school voucher data confirm worst fears

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2025/08/04

Ever since North Carolina legislators established the so-called “Opportunity Scholarships” school voucher program, sponsors and proponents have pitched it as a means of helping low-income students escape struggling public schools. Unfortunately, but not surprisingly, a new report from the Department of Public Instruction shows that this was all baloney. The DPI researchers found that […]

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Who’s entering the race?

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2025/08/04

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From Katrina to Chantal, we can’t afford to ignore...

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2025/08/03

Less than a month after I moved to Durham for graduate school, Hurricane Helene devastated western North Carolina. Helene, the deadliest storm to ever hit the state, took 108 lives and caused an estimated $48.8 billion in damage. Less than a year later, Tropical Storm Chantal killed six North Carolinians and did more than $56 […]

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Democratic lawmaker embarrasses with uninformed...

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2025/08/01

It’s no surprise that State Rep. Carla Cunningham – a Democrat from Mecklenburg County — declined to speak with reporters this week after helping to override Gov. Stein’s veto of a mean-spirited and ill-conceived anti-immigrant bill. That’s what often happens when a politician puts their foot in their mouth. House Bill 318 will force […]

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New tax law means less to celebrate on the 60th...

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2025/07/31

For more than a decade, the number of people without health insurance has dropped steadily reaching record lows over the last few years thanks to policy changes like Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Although there’s still a long way to go to improve affordability, coverage and health outcomes, for years we made […]

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The cruel incompetence of the Trump administration’s...

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2025/07/31

New research from the national news organization Stateline highlights some of the big flaws in the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement policies. While the administration has made much of its supposed commitment to cracking down on violent criminals and blaming Democrats for failing to do so, the research actually reveals a significant decline in this […]

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After the demise of USAID, America must reimagine...

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2025/07/30

The United States Agency for International Development, or USAID, was the largest provider of international humanitarian aid through Democratic and Republican administrations alike. USAID led the world in improving global health and eradicating diseases before they crossed U.S. borders; provided disaster relief to people facing extreme crisis, conflict, and poverty; and promoted education, economic development, […]

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North Carolina officials should work to enact and...

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2025/07/30

The rapid development of artificial intelligence has the potential to spur amazing advances in human society that are definitely worth pursuing. That said, AI also has the potential to do dreadful harm that we must guard against. As one of the nation’s tech leaders, OpenAI’s Sam Hartman, explained recently, for all of AI’s amazing […]

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Trump and Trumpism begin their inevitable decline

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2025/07/29

There’s a phenomenon in the world of politics and policy that is entirely predictable but still comes as a bit of a surprise to witness. It occurs when powerful politicians leave office and then later return to visit their old stomping grounds. As regulars at the North Carolina General Assembly can attest, unless the politician […]

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NC Democrats and Republicans agree: Release the...

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2025/07/29

Twenty years ago, investigative reporter Barry Levine started covering a wealthy socialite named Jeffrey Epstein. Five years ago, after he was convicted of sex crimes and died in jail, Levine published an acclaimed book on Epstein. And last week, as the controversy surrounding mountains of FBI data and evidence about Epstein slowly consumed the […]

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