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Daily Radio Commentary with NC Policy Watch
  Two decades ago, the leaders of Capitol Broadcasting Company had a bold and courageous idea: to devote one minute each night after th...
  He may now be 83, but few if any American political leaders do a better job of truth-telling and connecting with young people than Ve...
  Gerrymandering. Most Americans are familiar with this phenomenon in which politicians rig electoral maps and elections for partisan p...
  As has so often been the case with a legislature that refuses to work and negotiate in good faith, North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein had...
  The next time someone tries tell you that the North Carolinians with Medicaid health insurance are lazy slackers who participate in a...
  Early childhood education. Across much of the rest of the world, free, public early childhood education is a basic right. At a time i...
  Tax policy can be maddeningly complex and confusing. Indeed, keeping it that way is one tool the super-rich use to avoid paying their...
  There are many things that have changed for the better in North Carolina prisons over the last century. That said, it’s also true tha...
  Ever since North Carolina legislators established the so-called “Opportunity Scholarships” school voucher program, sponsors and propo...
  It’s no surprise that State Rep. Carla Cunningham – a Democrat from Mecklenburg County — declined to speak with reporters this...
  New research from the national news organization Stateline highlights some of the big flaws in the Trump administration’s immigration...
  The rapid development of artificial intelligence has the potential to spur amazing advances in human society that are definitely wort...
  Twenty years ago, investigative reporter Barry Levine started covering a wealthy socialite named Jeffrey Epstein. Five years ago, aft...
  Like the rest of the nation, North Carolina faces some enormous policy challenges these days. Thanks to sustained disinvestments in a...
  Over the last 87 years – particularly during the 20th Century – few innovations in the American economy have done more to lift up ave...
  There was always something that didn’t quite add up when American conservatives complained about federal budget deficits. Despite the...
  When state lawmakers first opened the door to school vouchers in North Carolina, they billed them as quote “opportunity scholarships,...
  North Carolina Republican lawmakers’ mad rush to slash income taxes on corporation and the wealthy in recent years has produced many...
  After almost 12 years, it’s familiar by now, but sadly, the pattern in which Senator Thom Tillis raises hopes that he’ll act with cou...
  There are probably plenty of days in which North Carolina Attorney General Jeff Jackson wishes his job duties were similar to those o...
  It’s an article of faith on the political far right that the Trump administration’s mass immigrant deportation policies will be a boo...
  The next time someone tries tell you that the North Carolinians with Medicaid health insurance are lazy slackers who participate in a...
  At a time in which our nation continues to experience the regular horror of school shootings, it’s understandable that everyone grasp...
  It’s no secret that bipartisanship is in short supply these days in state politics and that fact makes it especially tragic, as has h...
  Early childhood education. Across much of the rest of the world, free, public early childhood education is a basic right. At a time i...
  North Carolina got yet another frightening wake-up call this week about global warming when a modest tropical depression suddenly exp...
  President Donald Trump may have only the faintest idea of what’s in the massive budget bill he signed into law last Friday, but sadly...
  When North Carolinians elected Gov. Josh Stein last fall by a wide margin over former Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, they made clear they wa...
  Among the many remarkable news reports that emanated from Washington last week as Congress put the finishing touches on President Tru...
Today is Independence Day – the holiday on which Americans celebrate the birth of our nation as a free country that’s untethered to any mona...
  A study released this week by researchers at NC State University highlights the destructive impact that a bill sent to Gov. Stein by...
  President Trump’s massive budget bill moved one step closer to passage yesterday when the U.S. Senate approved it 51-50 over the obje...
  It’s a sad commentary on the power of the right-wing misinformation machine in modern America that simple and enormously positive con...
  In recent years, North Carolina Republican lawmakers have perfected the practice of rigging elections through partisan gerrymandering...
  Tax policy can be maddeningly complex and confusing. Indeed, keeping it that way is one tool the super-rich use to avoid paying their...
  It’s not that often that floor debates in the North Carolina legislature shed much light on important subjects. One impressive except...
  There are many things that have changed for the better in North Carolina prisons over the last century. That said, it’s also true tha...
  A new report from researchers at the national Commonwealth Fund finds that North Carolina has made enormous strides in assuring that...
  Bipartisanship is in precious short supply these days in politics and that makes it especially tragic when elected officials waste ra...
  It’s summer beach season again. Over the coming months, millions of visitors will flock to the North and South Carolina coastlines an...
These are passionately divided times in our country. And at such a moment, it’s imperative that all Americans – and especially our elected l...
  One of the most disturbing developments of the second Trump administration has been the President’s clear effort to encourage U.S. mi...
  The first months of North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein’s administration have been marked by a striking lack of hostility and conflict. To...
  Americans have long maintained a healthy instinct to be skeptics. We pride ourselves on demanding proof. Unfortunately, in recent yea...
  As long as the United States is going to maintain immigration laws, it’s a given that unauthorized people will be subject to arrest a...
  Ever since North Carolina legislators established the so-called “Opportunity Scholarships” school voucher program, sponsors and propo...
  If North Carolinians lived in a perfect world, everyone would have easy access to plenty of healthy and affordable food, the self-con...
  If ever there was a once controversial issue in modern society that has since become a settled matter, it is the question of cannabis...
  One of the most encouraging public health initiatives to come along in several years is a state Department of Health and Human Servic...
  It’s hard to fathom in a proposal that includes billions upon billions of dollars in tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans, but one o...