North Carolina's system for funding public schools is broken A more student-centered approach to funding could fix the problem Terry Stoops John Locke Foundation vice president for research and resident scholar discusses recommendations from a new report that recommends a major overhaul of N C public education financing When most of think about markets we think of goods and services Salim Furth senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University focuses his attention on the market for neighborhoods Furth discusses the implications of applying economic principles to the places where we live The N C Constitution bans [... more]

New research from Duke University scholars questions Medicaid's value for the people the health care program was designed to help The research arrives as the N C General Assembly and Gov Roy Cooper continue to bicker over Cooper's proposal to expand Medicaid to several hundred thousand more people in the state Jordan Roberts John Locke Foundation health care policy analyst assesses the new research and its potential impact The latest U S Supreme Court term yielded several important rulings including two with direct impacts on N C congressional elections and the state Revenue Department's taxing authority Ilya Shapiro director of [... more]

In the course of years of American history Christianity has gone from being revered and the informing worldview of our constitution and culture to being cast aside from public life This devolution is occurring so rapidly now that Christians are openly persecuted for holding to orthodox biblical beliefs particularly on the issue of marriage and morality For instance to reject the lie that homosexuality and transgenderism are as unchangeable and amoral as skin color is to be considered an evil racist deserving of complete and utter expungement There are myriad examples of this from Christian wedding service providers who are [... more]