Salvatori Prize Goes to Advocate of Religious Liberty
Noted essayist and scholar Kevin J. “Seamus” Hasson, a prominent advocate for religious freedom, today was awarded The Heritage Foundation’s 2012 Salvatori Prize for American… Read More
HHS Investigating Welfare Spending at Casinos, Liquor Stores, Strip Clubs
The Administration for Children and Families, a division of the Department of Health and Human Services, is investigating whether, and how, federal welfare funds have… Read More
U.S. Nuclear Warheads Face More Uncertainty as Scientists Retire
In about five years, the United States will not have a single active engineer with actual nuclear weapons testing experience, defined as “a key hand… Read More
Terrorproofing America: Worse Than Impossible
The National Association of Postmasters of the United States (NAPUS) recently registered an odd complaint in a letter to U.S. Senators this past Sunday. This… Read More
Federal Budget in Pictures Shows Medicare’s Path to Crisis
The Medicare trustees report, released this week, reinforced the urgent need to reform the federal health insurance program for seniors. Medicare is on an unsustainable… Read More
Climate Change Not the Problem as FEMA Declarations Dramatically Slow
Apologists for the huge number of declarations issued by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) typically argue that climate change is the cause of the… Read More
Morning Bell: Stopping the Cyber Espionage Threat
From the moment that Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, America learned that it is not an impenetrable fortress protected by thousands of miles of ocean, and… Read More
CISPA Is Ready for Prime Time
This week, the House of Representatives will vote on several cybersecurity bills, giving rise to the apt moniker “Cyber Week.” Congress is right to act… Read More
The Rest of the Story on Student Loans
President Obama is busy crossing the country and appealing to young Americans on the issue of student loans. He’s warning them of the possibility of… Read More
Senator Marco Rubio: ‘I Turn to Heritage Libertad’
Liberals are bent on making Hispanics, the fastest growing demographic, supporters of big government. Unfortunately, a recent poll by FOX News Latino reveals that liberals… Read More
New NFL Owner Fulfills His American Dream
This Thursday, the National Football League will kick off its 77th annual draft. By Saturday, 253 young men will be on their way to achieving… Read More
VIDEO: Obama’s Failed Policies are Failing America
Americans for Limited Government opens their new viral hit with a simple line, “If I wanted America to fail …” From there, the video recounts… Read More
Federal Budget in Pictures Shows America’s Spending and Debt Crises
April 29 marks the third year that the U.S. Senate has not passed a budget. Now more than ever, it is crucial that Americans understand… Read More
Raising the Minimum Wage Hurts Low-Income Workers
Should we raise the minimum wage? The editors at Bloomberg think so. They maintain that low-wage jobs are expanding and that a minimum wage hike… Read More
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Morning Bell: What’s the Senate Thinking?
April 29 marks the third year in which the U.S. Senate has not passed a budget — a staggering dereliction of duty, particularly given the… Read More
What Young Americans Should Really Fear
Over the past week, President Obama has been on the road making an appeal to young Americans, offering a sales pitch on lower interest rates… Read More
Decter, Podhoretz Receive Luce Award
Two political thinkers and writers who pioneered neoconservatism, Midge Decter and Norman Podhoretz, were celebrated Saturday night when The Heritage Foundation presented them with the… Read More
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VIDEO: Rep. Justin Amash and Author Katie Pavlich at The Bloggers Briefing
Rep. Justin Amash (R-MI) swore to support and defend the U.S. Constitution upon taking office. The founding document weighs heavily on him with each vote,… Read More
College (Loan) Football: The Looming Interest Rate Hike
Over the weekend, President Obama urged Congress to prevent a pending interest rate hike on student loans. While he argued that failure to keep interest… Read More
Why States Should Hop Off the National Standards Bandwagon
When “states signed on to common core standards, they did not realize…that they were transferring control of the school curriculum to the federal government,” said… Read More
New York Times Finally Notices Obama’s Unilateral Abuse of Power
Today’s New York Times offers a stunning revelation for anyone who hasn’t been following the news out of Washington for the past three years: President… Read More
An Education in Federal Compliance Burdens
No Child Left Behind, the eighth reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, is 600-plus pages in length and contains programs that… Read More
PODCAST: What Impact Do Sugar Quotas Have?
In this week’s Heritage in Focus, Heritage expert Bryan Riley discusses U.S. sugar quotas. Click here to listen. What effect do they have on Americans?… Read More
Common Core Math Standards Fail to Add Up
The push to nationalize the content taught in public schools across the country should be of great concern to state leaders. The Common Core national… Read More
House and Senate Cloakroom: The Information Revolution Edition
House Cloakroom: April 23 – April 27, 2012 Analysis: This week the House will take up a proposal to increase internet security. The bill is… Read More
Food Stamp Participation the Highest Ever…and Growing
The number of Americans on food stamps (or, as it is now called, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP) is higher than ever before,… Read More
Morning Bell: The Bloated Government of America
The General Services Administration blew through $820,000 in taxpayers’ money in a lavish “team building” trip to Las Vegas, and President Barack Obama is “apoplectic” at… Read More
The Arizona Model: Five Questions for Former AZ Speaker Kirk Adams
Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis described the states as “laboratories for democracy.” Policies enacted at the state level can offer insight into their likely efficacy… Read More
Chuck Colson’s Redemption Story
We at Heritage were saddened to learn of the death of Christian leader, cultural commentator and former White House counselor Charles W. “Chuck” Colson. America… Read More
Scribecast: Neal Boortz Reflects on Life in Talk Radio
Talk-radio host Neal Boortz is no fan of the nation’s capital. “The place gives me the creeps,” he said on this week’s Scribecast. Boortz, a… Read More
