Commentary/Opinion

By John Hood RALEIGH — During my first reporting job in the nation’s capital, I read a lot of fantasy. No, I wasn’t goofing off. And no, I’m not making…

By John Hood RALEIGH — Given our state’s population growth and ever-rising cost of medical services, North Carolina ought to be a leader in health care innovation. Alas, we are…

By Mike Walden There’s a term that we’re hearing more frequently today — the “affordability crisis.” It implies that a significant number of households today are finding it difficult to…

By John Hood RALEIGH — North Carolina has one of the best-performing economies in the country. We also have one of the country’s most competitive tax codes. That’s no coincidence.…

By John Hood RALEIGH — For a state accustomed to faring well on many economic and policy comparisons, North Carolina’s middling score on social mobility ought to make us uncomfortable.…

By John Hood RALEIGH — Having spent most of my career building, financing, and leading conservative institutions — in North Carolina and around the country — I’ve learned many critical…

By John Hood RALEIGH — It was 250 years ago this week that North Carolinians fought in their first formal battle for American independence. But they didn’t fight it in…

By Mike Walden AI — the abbreviation for “artificial intelligence — appears on a path to be a bigger part of our lives. Initially confined to labs and a few…

By Russell Gloor, National Social Security Advisor at the AMAC Foundation, the non-profit arm of the Association of Mature American Citizens Ask Rusty – Did the Obama-era Social Security Tax Cuts…