The Thanksgiving Menu: Overstuffed with Regulations
On the fourth Thursday of November, our attention naturally turns to food and football the Pilgrims who celebrated America’s first Thanksgiving. After great privation, a… Read More
Obamacare Undermines American Values
We wrote earlier this week about the ways Obamacare discourages marriage and work. These aren’t the only traditional values it undermines. Obamacare goes against two… Read More
Supreme Court to Hear Challenges to Obamacare Anti-Conscience Mandate
Today, the Supreme Court announced that it will take up two cases challenging the Obamacare anti-conscience mandate that employers must provide health insurance coverage that… Read More
Q&A on the Iran Nuclear Deal
James Phillips, Heritage’s Senior Research Fellow for Middle Eastern Affairs, gives us his take on the latest deal with Iran. Will the interim agreement stop… Read More
What EVERYONE Will Be Talking About at Thanksgiving Dinner
Have you seen them? The guides for how to talk to your family about Obamacare over the holidays. That’s right—Organizing for America (OFA), President Obama’s… Read More
Judge Files Blistering Personal Objection to Class-Action Settlement
The next time you get a class-action settlement notice in the mail, take a hard look at it. You might not be a judge, but… Read More
When Counting Electrical Grid Threats, Count EMP
The North American Electric Power Reliability Corporation’s (NERC) latest test of the U.S. electrical grid left out an important component: testing the U.S.’s ability to… Read More
GSE Reform: Housing Finance Experts on the Future of Fannie and Freddie
Nearly five years after one of the largest federal government bailouts in American history and the enactment of a colossal federal regulatory law (Dodd–Frank), policy… Read More
She Lost Her Health Plan, But Won’t Take a Government Handout
Like millions of other Americans, Charlene Hopkins, a 52-year-old working mother from Washington, will lose her health care plan because of Obamacare. In her quest… Read More
How Obamacare Discourages Work and Marriage
We were told that Obamacare was supposed to be compassionate toward the needy in America. While President Obama and his fellow liberals may have held… Read More
A Bad Nuclear Deal with Iran Could Lead to War
The deal that the Obama Administration struck at the Geneva talks yesterday amounts to a flawed agreement that risks reducing sanctions pressure on Iran over… Read More
Obamaphones: Rife with Waste, Fraud, and Abuse
Free cell phones for low-income Americans, one of the fastest growing welfare programs in the United States, is—by the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) own admission—rife… Read More
Chart of the Week: How Many Edu-crats Does Your State Have?
Federal laws and regulations such as No Child Left Behind (NCLB) levy a mighty bureaucratic compliance burden on state departments of education. A recent report… Read More
HealthCare.gov Contractor Built Faulty Gun Registry for Canada
It turns out notorious government contractor CGI is no stranger to glitch-filled rollouts. HealthCare.gov isn’t the first time the Canadian company has received millions of… Read More
See Everything This Mom’s Cutting to Pay for Obamacare
The holiday season is looming, but this year Kate Joy and her husband aren’t budgeting for gifts or saving for a vacation. They’re figuring out how… Read More
More Obamacare Navigator Fraud Caught on Video
If you earn cash on the side, do not tell the government—that’s what multiple Obamacare navigators are saying in Texas. James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas released… Read More
JFK Cutting Taxes: A Fiscal Camelot
As the country marks the 50th anniversary of President Kennedy’s assassination, there are many reflections about the man and his legacy. For those old enough,… Read More
Iraq in Distress: How Can the U.S. Respond?
Unfortunately, in today’s Iraq, terror and death are the daily rule, not the exception. Earlier this month in eastern Iraq, a suicide bomber disguised as… Read More
Tales of the Red Tape #42: Peeling Back Nonsense in Vehicle Regulation
General Motors Corp. (GM) is recalling 18,941 Chevy Camaros (model years 2013 and 2014) for violating Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard No. 208—Occupant Crash Protection…. Read More
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How 40 Congressmen Are Challenging Obamacare
The Supreme Court may have ruled once on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare, but the debate about the law’s… Read More
Obamacare: How the Cost-Sharing Subsidies Produce Limited Access to Providers
Many middle-class Americans will be harmed by the design of Obamacare’s cost-sharing subsidies for lower-income exchange enrollees. Though relatively little attention has been given to… Read More
DOJ Drops Louisiana Scholarship Program Lawsuit after Pushback
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has decided to drop its lawsuit against the Louisiana Scholarship Program (LSP) and continue its own review process. This… Read More
46-Day Delay in Obamacare — in 2015
As Healthcare.gov continues to malfunction and already 5 million people contend with canceled health insurance plans, reports are that the Administration will delay open enrollment… Read More
Baucus Heads Wrong Way on Important Part of Tax Reform — Again
Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee Max Baucus (D–MT) continues to release draft proposals on important parts of tax reform. His latest draft proposal is… Read More
Still Stuck: An Update on the Obamacare Cancelations “Fix”
One week ago, the President presented his solution for the millions of Americans who are receiving insurance cancellation notices because of Obamacare. His solution for… Read More
The Obama Doctrine’s Misleading Rhetoric on Terrorism
Despite the Obama Administration’s narrative, the al-Qaeda network and its radical ideology pose an unbroken and significant danger to the United States homeland and its… Read More
Upward Mobility, Equality of Opportunity, and the Family
Discussions about poverty and upward mobility tend to overlook a growing amount of research arguing that socioeconomic differences in America are often rooted in family… Read More
Volcker Rule Gets Stuck on Reality
Slate seems to have picked up on a classic regulatory problem that relates to the (still being finalized) version of the new Volcker Rule. The… Read More
More Cracks in the Core: Massachusetts Halts Common Core Implementation
This week, the Massachusetts Board of Education voted to slow the transition to Common Core. The board decided to delay implementation for two years while… Read More
They Got Away With It
As President Obama said, they got away with it. Harry Reid and the Democrat-controlled Senate got away with changing the Senate’s rules so that they… Read More
