As Detroit Goes, So Goes the Nation
Detroit is the poster child for economic decline. The city’s policies and politics over the past half-century should serve as a “do not” guide for… Read More
Indiana Set to Withdraw from Common Core National Assessments
Indiana Governor Mike Pence (R) announced that the Hoosier State will be withdrawing itself as a member of the Partnership for the Assessment of Readiness… Read More
VIDEO: Jim DeMint Debates Obamacare on “Fox News Sunday”
On this weekend’s “Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace”, Heritage President Jim DeMint appeared on a panel discussion with The Weekly Standard’s Bill Kristol and… Read More
Conservative and Tea Party Leaders: Now Is the Time to Stop Obamacare
Under a cloudy Washington sky on Thursday, members of Congress joined with conservative leaders and tea party groups to unite against Obamacare. Comparing Obamacare to… Read More
Education Reform Goes Big in the Tar Heel State
North Carolina is on a roll. Last week, Governor Pat McCrory (R) signed a budget passed by the state legislature chock-full of education reforms, including… Read More
Watch This Weekend: Jim DeMint on “Fox News Sunday”
This weekend, Heritage Foundation President Jim DeMint will appear on “Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace” to review the week’s top news stories. Appearing with… Read More
Not So Fast: Congress Is Still in an Obamacare Trap
News broke late last evening about the debate playing out over Obamacare and whether members of Congress and their staffs will get special treatment. Politico… Read More
DeMint on Fox News: Here’s How You Stop Obamacare (VIDEO)
Heritage Foundation President Jim DeMint believes defunding Obamacare is the best hope for stopping the President’s unfair, unworkable, and unpopular health-care law. During two appearances… Read More
Another Flawed Executive Order: Chemical Security and Government Overreach
President Obama issued his latest in a long line of executive orders yesterday. The order, titled “Improving Chemical Facility Safety and Security,” is rather inaptly… Read More
Flashing Headlights as a Felony: Why Helping Reduce Crime Shouldn’t Be Criminal
Most people have probably done it. Some, if pressed, might concede that it isn’t the right thing to do. But most people probably wouldn’t think… Read More
White House Report Ignores That We Need a Better Economy, Not Amnesty
The White House yesterday released a report with state-by-state projected impacts from “commonsense immigration reform” that is “like the Senate bill.” It is the latest… Read More
As Commodities Prices Fall, Economic Freedom Should Rise
New reports are hinting that an end to the decade-long run-up of the prices of commodities prices is here. For years, emerging markets such as… Read More
A Constructive First Step to Reform Social Security
Dave Camp (R–MI), chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, has announced a series of hearings on bipartisan entitlement reform proposals, the first of… Read More
Is Congress Too Good for Obamacare?
For the past few months, members of Congress and their staffs have been discussing behind closed doors the worrying proposition that they will be forced… Read More
Critics Resort to Canned Rhetoric in Goldman Sachs Attack
Goldman Sachs and other big banks have been accused of costing American consumers more than $5 billion over the past three years through its dealings… Read More
Expiration of Trade Preference Program Means Higher Prices
On July 31, the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) expired. GSP is a program that waives tariffs on thousands of products that Americans import from… Read More
Sustaining the Navy Surface Fleet
The House Armed Services Readiness and Seapower and Projection Forces Subcommittees are holding a joint hearing today to discuss the future of the Navy’s surface… Read More
Déjà Vu? How Senate Immigration Bill Is Obamacare All Over Again
It has been said those who refuse to learn from history are doomed to repeat it. Will that be the case with the immigration debate… Read More
NYC Soda Ban Shot Down Again: Bad Day for the Food Police
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and other self-appointed nutrition czars are probably very upset. The New York Supreme Court Appellate Division, First Department, unanimously… Read More
Rubio on Defunding Obamacare: “We Have to Do This” (VIDEO)
Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) appeared on Fox News’ “Hannity” last night to urge conservatives to defund Obamacare. “This is the last, best chance,” he warned…. Read More
Heritage Book Fair Raises $2,726 for Wounded Warriors
While cleaning out her office of old materials, Heritage’s Becky Norton Dunlop noticed the extensive collection of books for which she no longer had any… Read More
Defund Obamacare: Make Your Voice Heard This August
Members of Congress head home tomorrow for a month-long recess. Although they are escaping Washington, they won’t get a break from important issues that are… Read More
Exclusive Interview: Ted Cruz on How to Win the Defund Obamacare Debate
Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) believes the most important battle facing this Congress is defunding Obamacare. He visited Heritage this week to send a message to… Read More
Family Fact of the Week: Teens Are Putting Off Sexual Activity
A recent report by the Guttmacher Institute reveals that more teens are choosing to delay sexual activity. The median age for first sexual intercourse is… Read More
SocietyNews
Want to Rebuild Opportunity, Mr. President? Start with Welfare Reform
In the kick-off to his most recent speaking tour, President Obama said the United States must “rebuild ladders of opportunity for all those Americans who… Read More
Milton Friedman at 101: We Need His Ideas Now More Than Ever
Today, on what would have been Milton Friedman’s 101st birthday, we celebrate the enduring insights of an economist and thinker whose ideas have served as… Read More
Economic Growth Remains Too Slow Because of Policy Uncertainty
Today’s report on gross domestic product (GDP) shows that not much changed in the economy during the second quarter. The Bureau of Economic Analysis’s initial… Read More
Happy Birthday, Milton Friedman: Champion of Educational Freedom
On the late, great, Nobel Prize–winning economist Milton Friedman’s 101st birthday, it is fitting to remember his legacy of school choice and continue the fight… Read More
Obama on Infrastructure: Wrong Again on Government “Investments”
In yet another summer speech on the economy yesterday, President Obama trotted out familiar tax-and-spend ideas, this time pairing his latest call for a tax… Read More
EnergyNews
Thank You, George Mitchell, for Fracking
George P. Mitchell passed away on Friday, July 26, leaving behind a legacy as the man who unlocked America’s vast oil and natural gas shale… Read More
