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The Future of the Dean Dome: Tradition, Stewardship and Carolina Basketball's Next Chapter Mar 12, 2026
The debate at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill over whether to renovate or relocate off campus the Dean E. Smith Student Activities Center has become far more than a facilities discussion. It has ignited petitions, drawn tens of thousa... Read More
Trump's New Tariff Plan Still Asserts a Crisis That Does Not Exist: The President's Invocation of Section 122 Conflates a Trade Deficit With a Balance-of-Payments Deficit Mar 12, 2026
President Donald Trump's original plan for addressing the purported threat posed by the longstanding U.S. trade deficit, which the Supreme Court rejected in February, involved declaring an imaginary emergency to justify tariffs under a statute that d... Read More
Ayatollah Khamenei's Miscalculation Mar 11, 2026
It was a minor story in American newspapers when a riot broke out in the Iranian city of Tabriz in February 1978. A UPI story that ran on page 11 of the Miami Herald carried this headline: "Calm Restored to Iranian Town After Riots." "Armored cars an... Read More
The Rules Were Never Meant for Them Mar 11, 2026
There is a particular kind of intellectual dishonesty that masquerades as principle and the American left has perfected it. It goes by either "international law" or "norms." These phrases are invoked with religious fervor whenever the United States o... Read More
