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Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 fundamentally reshaped the country, prohibiting discrimination based on sex in any educational program or activity that receives federal funding. Once considered a feminist triumph, Title IX leveled the educational field for women, allowing them educational, athletic, and career opportunities never before possible. Best known for its applications to spo...

Created Equal: Clarence Thomas in His Own Words  is a follow-on book to the wildly successful documentary by the same name. Based on excerpts from the over 30 hours of groundbreaking, one-on-one interviews, this new book lets Justice Thomas explain his thinking on important issues and recount his inspiring life story, his rise from a childhood of poverty and prejudice in the segregated South...

Confucius Institutes, once a strategic part of China’s overseas influence campaign, have almost disappeared from the United States: 104 of 118 have shut down. But the demise of Confucius Institutes has not deterred the Chinese government, which has persuaded American colleges and universities to reopen and rebrand Confucius Institute programs under new names. A new report from the National Associa...

The Supreme Court is poised to correct a grave error and relegate  Roe v. Wade  to the dustbin of history. The pro-life movement will then enter a new phase of building a culture of life. Join us for a symposium featuring panel discussions on one of the most talked-about topics in America right now: What does life after  Roe  really look like? Leading legal, medical, and policy...

Does easing teenagers’ access to cross-sex medical interventions such as puberty blockers and hormones protect against adolescent suicide, as the left claims, or do such interventions have the opposite effect? In a new study,  The Effect of Access to Puberty Blockers and Cross-Sex Hormones on Youth Suicide Rates,  Heritage Foundation senior research fellow Jay Greene, Ph. D. conducts an...

Government spending, regulations, and inflation are a tax on all Americans. With a massive spending binge causing inflation to hit rates not seen in four decades, it’s no wonder these issues are top of mind for working Americans struggling to make ends meet. Conservatives are going on offense and developing plans that offer real solutions to reverse the growth of government spending and ease infla...

The Supreme Court is under attack by Leftists in Congress and President Biden, who have assembled a committee to examine so-called reforms to the court in the hopes of packing it for their own political gain. Court packing would irrevocably alter the Supreme Court and the fabric of our country, turning the nation’s highest court into a partisan weapon. Senator Mike Lee, a respected member of the S...

As Russia rattles its nuclear saber while waging war on Ukraine and China drastically expands its nuclear arsenal, maintaining a strong American nuclear deterrent is critical. Congressman Doug Lamborn (R-CO) knows this well, as he works on these challenges every day as the Ranking Member of the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Strategic Forces. Tune in as he joins Heritage expert Patty-Jane Ge...

The House, with only Democrat support, passed legislation that would impose a federal price control system on consumer fuel. The bill would provide politicians and bureaucrats near limitless power to interfere with energy markets and repeat mistakes from the 1970s that resulted in gas shortages. Join us as we discuss the legislation and similar misguided efforts and how government intervention is...

Since taking the helm of the Department of the Air Force last year, Secretary Frank Kendall has set the Air Force on a course to prepare for a conflict with a peer adversary by focusing on seven operational imperatives. Among the seven is the direction to increase the readiness of the department to transition to a wartime posture against a peer competitor. There are reasons to be concerned about A...

The Biden administration has announced the most significant opening to the communist Cuban regime since Obama-era rapprochement and important sanctions relief to the narco-terrorist Maduro regime in Venezuela. These measures will directly enrich these anti-American dictatorships at the expense of their people and of U.S. national security interests. Worse yet, the Biden administration is kowtowing...

During the 2008 financial crisis, Bitcoin was introduced via an anonymously published white paper on the internet. Fourteen years later, this new form of digital money has been embraced by millions of Americans and has become a major subject in policy discussions throughout the United States. As politicians and regulators struggle to grasp Bitcoin’s potential, it’s important to understand how...

Classical education is on the rise as more parents are demanding high-quality curriculum and values-centered learning. In public charter, homeschool, and private school communities, the number of new classical schools and availability of classical curricula continues to increase. With this increase comes a renewed emphasis on the quality, training, and foundational knowledge necessary to teach stu...

Few leaders in modern times have made a larger imprint on American economic policy than former House Majority Leader Dick Armey of Texas. Along with former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, Armey helped engineer the 1994 “Republican Revolution” when the GOP took control of the House for the first time in more than 40 years. Armey was an architect of the bipartisan military base closing initiativ...

Join us as former UK Minister of State Lord David Frost reflects on the political and economic situation of Britain two years after the country’s exit from the European Union. He’ll also discuss how conservative politics need to develop in Britain if the opportunities of Brexit are to be fully exploited as well as Britain’s global role, including how it should position itself in the face of the ch...

Join us for a discussion of the harms of gender ideology and the historic, Judeo-Christian understanding of sex and gender. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Don't miss General Daniel Hokanson and Thomas Spoehr as they discuss the National Guard's State Partnership Program and how it can contribute to America's security. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The deadly impact of rogue “progressive” prosecutors can be felt across the country. Join us for a look at the damage they’ve caused and ways to combat them as we continue our series on rogue prosecutors. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Is Big Tech going too far? Is it rightly moderating content or suppressing free speech guaranteed by the First Amendment? Join us for an informative debate on these questions and more.    Co-Hosted by The Daily Caller News Foundation, The Arthur Rupe Foundation, and The Karpus Family Foundation Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is gearing up for its most important political event of the decade. Sometime in the second half of 2022, China’s most senior leaders will assemble at Beijing’s Great Hall of the People for the 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, in which General Secretary Xi Jinping is expected to stay in office for a precedent-breaking third term. Maneuvering a...

America is under attack by the radical left, and there’s never been a greater need for strong leadership if we’re to rescue our country. Senator Rick Scott recently unveiled an 11-point plan to do just that: Rescue America.    Don’t miss the chance to learn about the plan from Senator Scott himself as he joins Heritage President Kevin Roberts and Heritage Action Executive Director J...

Senior British Conservative MP Sir Iain Duncan Smith joins Heritage’s Dr. Nile Gardiner to discuss the immense threats posed to the free world by dictatorial regimes including China and Russia and how the West should counter them. Sir Iain Duncan Smith was the UK Secretary of State for Work and Pensions from May 2010 until March 2016. He was elected Conservative MP for Chingford and Woodford Green...

Critical race theory (CRT) has hijacked the U.S. education system on every level. Parents, students, educators, and policymakers must know and support the truth about American history and reject this divisive, anti-American theory’s obsession with skin color and prejudice. Don’t miss Heritage’s Jonathan Butcher in conversation with AEI’s Ian Rowe as they unpack CRT’s dangerous consequences on Amer...

We are living in the most dangerous moment since the Cuban Missile Crisis thanks to Vladimir Putin’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine. The risk of escalation and spillover are very real, and the implications are dire. While the world is rightly focused on the immediate crisis, we cannot afford to ignore the systematic threat posed by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).   Join us for a timel...

Pentagon resourcing has been criticized as too slow, too rigid, and unable to deliver the needed capabilities to the warfighter. Former House Armed Services Committee Chairman Representative Mac Thornberry put it bluntly: “[T]oday’s rapid innovation and technological change renders our industrial age approach to funding obsolete.” In the coming weeks, a congressionally directed commission will beg...