Lee Cowan hosts this July th weekend edition of Sunday Morning In our cover story Kris Van Cleave looks at the difficulties facing exasperated travelers this summer Plus Major Garrett talks with a woman who had to leave the country in to get an abortion Lesley Stahl explores animal friendships Jim Axelrod sits down with the Doobie Brothers David Martin looks back on the life of WWII Medal of Honor recipient Cpl Hershel Woody Williams a Robert Krulwich video essay examines the threat posed by rising greenhouse gases and Rita Braver visits an accidental tourist attraction gigantic decaying busts of [... more]

Jan Markell spends the hour with Pastor Brandon Holthaus The crisis of a virus has set the stage for the end game a one-world system Now efforts are being introduced such as one's social credit score to where people can't buy or sell without a proper score The rush to globalize by has now been pushed up to How does the Christian cope with the new normal [... more]

David Pogue looks at how extreme weather events are bringing the issue of climate change home to more and more Americans Erin Moriarty examines the key voting bloc of suburban women in battleground states Nick Whitaker talks with Black Lives Matter co-founder Alicia Garza Ben Mankiewicz checks in with actor Elliott Gould John Dickerson discusses the perils of polls and Tracy Smith discovers longtime Van Halen frontman David Lee Roth's new passion Japanese ink painting See Privacy Policy at https art com privacy and California Privacy Notice at https art com privacy do-not-sell-my-info [... more]

A judge will hear arguments this month in a lawsuit challenging North Carolina's certificate-of-need law A Winston-Salem surgeon is challenging a provision in the CON law that blocks him from purchasing an MRI machine Jon Guze John Locke Foundation director of legal studies has filed a friend-of-the-court brief supporting the surgeon's case Guze explains why he believes the CON law is unconstitutional If North Carolina decides to move forward with legislation to allow dental therapy it will be good to know how that process has played out in other states Sal Nuzzo vice president for policy at the James Madison [... more]

The University of North Carolina System's controversial chairman has resigned from that post Harry Smith's decision shakes up the university's Board of Governors as that board deals with other leadership issues That includes the search for a new system president and for a new chancellor at the flagship campus in Chapel Hill Rick Henderson Carolina Journal editor-in-chief assesses UNC's leadership challenges Sarah Lawrence College political scientist Samuel Abrams unleashed a wave of criticism when he decided to write in the New York Times about the lack of ideological diversity on college campuses Abrams traveled to Raleigh this year to discuss [... more]

This week U S Congresswoman NY- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez the -year-old self-described Democratic Socialist released the framework for a Green New Deal which includes meeting percent of the power demand through clean renewable and zero-emission energy sources upgrading all existing buildings in the country for energy efficiency eliminate pollution and greenhouse gas emissions from farms overhauling transportation systems to reduce emissions including expanding electric car manufacturing building charging stations everywhere and expanding high-speed rail to a scale where air travel stops becoming necessary A guaranteed job with a family-sustaining wage adequate family and medical leave paid vacations and retirement security for [... more]

North Carolina's individual and corporate income tax rates dropped again on Jan The personal income tax rate now stands at percent down more than percent from the top marginal rate of percent that it was in effect in North Carolina's percent corporate tax rate is the lowest rate of any states that assess a tax on corporations' income Becki Gray John Locke Foundation senior vice president assesses the significance of the latest tax rate cuts Negative partisanship plays a significant role in our current political debates That's a problem for Jonah Goldberg American Enterprise Institute scholar and National Review senior [... more]

Gov Roy Cooper has signed an executive order calling on state agencies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions The goal is to have North Carolina follow through on dictates of the Paris climate agreement even though the Trump administration has pulled the United States out of that agreement Donald van der Vaart John Locke Foundation senior fellow and former N C environmental secretary dissects Cooper's order and analyzes its implications Many American cities appear to face a state of decline The group Strong Towns endorses action that would help reverse that decline Development director Bo Wright discusses Strong Towns' recommendations That [... more]

North Carolina's Medicaid program is on track to remain under budget for the fourth straight year Federal regulators are also giving high marks to the state's plans for shifting Medicaid to managed care Carolina Journal Associate Editor Dan Way offers an update on major N C Medicaid developments The Trump administration has pulled the United States out of the Paris climate agreement and dumped the Obama administration's Clean Power Plan That doesn't mean the world is on its way to overheating Patrick Michaels director of the Center for the Study of Science at the libertarian Cato Institute explains why neither [... more]