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SC’s growth story is becoming the South’s growth story

SC’s growth story is becoming the South’s growth story

As the United States celebrates its 250th anniversary, the country’s economic center of gravity continues to move south. My new report, Accelerating South, captures the scale of that shift: the American South is now a roughly $6 trillion regional economy, outpacing both the Northeast and the Pacific while attracting people, capital and industries at a historic pace. Few states illustrate that...

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The Tyranny of One Man’s Opinion

Thomas Cromwell was the Lord Chancellor of England for much of the reign of King Henry VIII. He engineered the convictions and executions of many whom Henry wanted out of the way, including his two predecessors in office — one of whom was St. Thomas More — and even...

SC’s growth story is becoming the South’s growth story

As the United States celebrates its 250th anniversary, the country’s economic center of gravity continues to move south. My new report, Accelerating South, captures the scale of that shift: the American South is now a roughly $6 trillion regional economy, outpacing...

Trump Loses Two More — and Does It Matter?

This week, President Donald Trump lost twice in his war against a free press. Will it stop him? Almost certainly not. The first solid loss came on Wednesday, in a suit Trump has brought twice against the Des Moines Register and its pollster. Their crime? Predicting...

News From Around the South, 9/21 to 9/28

LOUISIANA: LSU struggles with multimillion-dollar athletics deficit: ‘We've got to stop that bleeding After years of minimal profits, LSU athletics is now tens of millions of dollars in the red. LSU President Wade Rousse told the state Board of Regents on Tuesday the...

Fulton Sheen and Me

History yields people whose influence extends far beyond their earthly lives. They become teachers to generations they never met, spiritual companions to people whose names they never knew, and reminders that faith is not merely a set of propositions to be accepted...

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