About a year ago today, I was at the Celebration of Undergraduate Research when the news started to filter in.
With its armies of frozen zombies, knights in armor and dragons, we might think that Westeros is a far cry from planet Earth in the 21st Century.
The Trans-Pacific Partnership is the biggest trade deal you’ve never heard of. The subject of nearly a decade of negotiations, the deal has the potential to create one of the largest reductions of tariffs and regulatory barriers to trade in history. It involves 12 countries, representing 40 percent of the world’s Gross Domestic Product.
Last week, the members of today’s famously divided Congress got together for a rare show of bipartisan cooperation, passing the Agriculture Act. The bill is comprehensive — 949 pages and $946 billion — and received support from lawmakers in both parties, as well as from President Obama.
In September, I wrote a column on the dangers of allowing the growth of the surveillance state in America to proceed unchecked.
The Republican Party, in both its North Carolina and nationwide incarnations, has an image problem.
One of the core tenets of a Libertarian approach to governing is that government powers should be confined to the narrowest range necessary.
The teaching profession is broken. In no other career are you expected to work for peanuts upon graduation and work 15 years before your salary reaches $40,000.
If you haven’t been living under a rock for the past week, you probably noticed that the federal government has been shut down for a few days.
Over the summer, revelations about NSA surveillance rocked the political world.
