Louisiana Teachers Cancel Class to Lobby Against Jindal Reforms
The Weekly Standard is reporting that teachers in Louisiana plan to cancel class this week in order to protest Governor Bobby Jindal’s (R) education reform… Read More
Obamacare: Higher Taxes, More Uninsured, Says CBO
On March 13, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) updated its score of Obamacare, announcing that the program is $48 billion cheaper than in its previous… Read More
PODCAST: Red Tape Rising
In this week’s Heritage in Focus, expert James Gattuso discusses the punishing increase in government regulations in 2011. Click here to listen. How far above… Read More
Obama’s Non-Solution for High Gas Prices
Gas prices and the approval of President Obama’s management of the issue are heading in opposite directions. As the price at the pump continues to… Read More
U.S. Drawdown: A Heritage Roundtable
Heritage’s Peter Brookes wrote a recent column for the New York Post entitled “A Dangerous U.S. Drawdown” on President Obama’s plans to cut 15,000 U.S…. Read More
A Game of Nuclear Chicken
A March 11 editorial The New York Times appears to support the idea that the nuclear arsenal of the United States acts not as a… Read More
A Lesson from Greece
We’ve corrected Paul Krugman in the past, when he mistakenly invoked imaginary British spending cuts as proof that undercutting Keynesian hydraulics will demolish an already… Read More
Red Tape Ties Up Industrial Base
Defense officials need to rethink the way they award contracts, says Daniel Goure, vice president of the Lexington Institute. Goure argues that, in its effort… Read More
Afghanistan: Negotiating While Withdrawing Is Poor Strategy
In the wake of a U.S. Army staff sergeant’s murdering 16 Afghan civilians (mostly women and children), U.S. officials are contemplating the pace and scope… Read More
The Rare Earths Distraction
The U.S., EU, and Japan are suing China in the World Trade Organization (WTO), calling Chinese export quotas on rare earth elements an illegal trade… Read More
SM-3 Reductions: A Gift to Iran
In a recent article, Jeff Stier, a senior fellow at the National Center for Public Policy Research, argued that the Administration’s proposal in the fiscal… Read More
Millennium Bomber to Remain in Prison Where He Belongs
On July 27, 2005, Ahmed Ressam was sentenced to 22 years in prison for attempting to detonate explosives at the Los Angeles International Airport on… Read More
Chinese Economic Espionage: An Overlooked Concern
If you heard that people based in a certain country completely compromised the computer systems of Nortel, a Canadian telecom firm that has since collapsed,… Read More
Cornering #Kony
While the rest of us were watching YouTube about the infamous Ugandan militia leader Joseph Kony, someone was actually doing something about Kony and the… Read More
Health CareNews
Is Anti-Conscience Mandate Dragging Down Obama’s Approval Rating?
Journalists and pundits are chalking up President Obama’s plummeting approval rating to the high cost of gasoline. No doubt that’s having an impact. But there’s… Read More
SecurityNews
Global U.S.–Russian Rivalry Fuels Syria Clash in the U.N.
On Monday, Washington and Moscow clashed yet again in the U.N. Security Council over what to do about the bloody conflict in Syria. Neither side… Read More
Morning Bell: Obama’s New Regulations Cost Billions
If you fly across the country, it’s easy to see signs of America’s ingenuity and productivity — skyscrapers in New York City, steel mills in… Read More
Strategy Memo Details Liberal PR Plan to Promote Obamacare
The White House and its liberal allies are planning a comprehensive public-relations campaign for the second anniversary of Obamacare and the Supreme Court oral arguments… Read More
School Choice Increases Student Safety
A newly released report by David Deming, assistant professor at the Harvard Graduate School for Education, shows that school choice doesn’t just foster academic improvement… Read More
Japan: One Year Later
Yesterday, Japan remembered. On March 11, 2011, an earthquake rocked the coast of Japan. The quake generated the largest recorded tsunami in modern Japanese history,… Read More
Morning Bell: The Nuclear Option for Powering America
When you flip on a light switch, turn on your TV, start up your coffee maker, or charge your cell phone, there’s a good chance… Read More
The Bitter Fruit of Libya’s “Arab Spring”
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton met with Libyan Prime Minister Abdurrahim el-Keib yesterday and expressed optimism about Libya’s future. But Libya faces major problems in… Read More
The U.S. Does Not Need “International Permission” to Defend its Interests
Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta’s comments earlier this week were a very revealing insight into the Obama administration’s mindset on the legal regime governing America’s… Read More
Scribecast: One Year After Earthquake, Japan’s Ambassador Talks Recovery
Tomorrow marks the one-year anniversary of the Great East Japan Earthquake, a massive jolt to the country that caused widespread damage and had ramifications on… Read More
House Oversight Hearing Shines Light on Food-Stamp Fraud
Food-stamp fraud and the government’s failed attempts to stop it were the focus of a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing yesterday. Chairman Darrell… Read More
Senators Demand Release of Head Start Data
Four years after data collection was completed, Americans are still awaiting the results of a study conducted by the Department of Health and Human Services… Read More
PODCAST: Obama Doctrine
In this week’s Heritage in Focus, Heritage expert Kim Holmes discusses President Obama’s foreign policy agenda, known as the Obama Doctrine. Click here to listen…. Read More
Non-Nuclear U.S. Means a Bleak Future for World Stability
“Nuclear weapons will continue to serve critical foreign- and defense-policy objectives,” write Bradley Thayer and Thomas Skypek in their recent op-ed. Since the end of… Read More
Morning Bell: A Disappointing Recovery Leaves Americans Suffering
In the Super Tuesday primary, the economy was the number one issue on voters’ minds, be they in Massachusetts, Georgia, Ohio, or Virginia. And that… Read More
