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In recent weeks, Americans have watched in horror as the Taliban overran Afghanistan. The scenes from Kabul have alarmed the nation, and the Biden Administration has denied responsibility while allowing the crisis to spiral out of control. In the midst of the chaos, decision makers must be clear about how these events came about, how they...

2021 marks the 40th anniversary of President Reagan’s landmark signing of the Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981. These tax cuts unleashed American prosperity and re-invigorated a struggling economy. Four decades on, the nation faces increasing calls to return to a 1970s-style high-tax economy, making it more important than ever to remember why the Reagan Tax Cuts were so c...

President Biden has ordered the Centers for Disease Control to extend a national moratorium on evictions until October 3, despite a strong signal from the Supreme Court that the moratorium was unlawful. The original CDC moratorium was legally and constitutionally problematic, and this new order doubles down by flying in the face of America’s highest court. Meanwhile, the economic ripple effects of...

Drone technology has exploded over the last two decades. Large armed drones like the MQ-9 are well known and have wreaked havoc on terrorists since 9/11 but the small, hunter-killer drones employed in the Armenian/Azerbaijani war have proven to be game changers in force-on-force engagements. Join one of the world’s leading experts, Seth Frantzman, as he illuminates the future of these incredibly l...

In the face of a rising China, it has never been more important for the United States to have a strong force posture in the Indo-Pacific. Last year, Congress established The Pacific Defense Initiative (PDI) to consolidate and rebalance investments that enhance deterrence. This year’s budget continues funding the PDI, but largely misses the mark on key priorities. In addition, while current and pre...

In 2020, the deadliest crisis at the China-India border in four decades claimed dozens of lives and sharpened the rivalry between the world’s two most populous nations. Later that year, reports revealed that China had constructed a new village  inside  the nation of Bhutan, with more villages said to be planned on Bhutanese soil. This comes only three years after Chinese road constructio...

Hypersonic weapons travel more than five times the speed of sound, enabling them to close on targets in ways that could significantly impact the next major armed conflict. Realizing their potential, Russia and China have well-developed programs and have likely fielded operational hypersonic weapons. In contrast, the U.S. has yet to complete testing...

With inflation on the rise and many predicting future Pentagon budgets will be flat, it becomes even more important to get the most out of every single taxpayer dollar. Today, there are legal, cultural, and procedural barriers that frustrate those efforts resulting in waste and poor decision-making. One such obstacle is the phenomena of “use it or lose it,” where every year the Pentagon loses buyi...

It has been nearly six months since the military coup in Burma, also known as Myanmar. Conditions inside the country continue to worsen with over 5,000 people currently detained and nearly 1,000 killed. Civil liberties and freedoms are evaporating as the military consolidates power. While the initial U.S. response to the coup was swift, there is much left to be done. There is strong bipartisan agr...

Join Heritage’s Joseph Loconte, Tina Descovich, Patti Hildalgo Menders and Priscilla Rahn for an exciting virtual townhall about how today’s parents can use the principles of the American Founding to preserve freedom for their children and for generations to come. Parents today—especially mothers and the organizations they lead—are working mightily to instill these principles in their children: id...

Education policy professionals won’t want to miss this 30-minute  Policy Pulse  discussion on why Washington should not be micromanaging student discipline policies. Parents and teachers—the adults closest to a student—should be making decisions about discipline based on behavior, not the color of a child’s skin. Your child’s teacher has a responsibility to protect children from harm. Ho...

U.S. dominance in Space is being challenged by China, Russia, and a host of other aspiring competitors. Keeping our nation on top of all others increasingly relies on the ingenuity, development, and capabilities offered by the civilian sector. National security professionals won’t want to miss this chance to hear from rising leaders on the cutting edge of the aerospace industry. Join us to di...

A surge in political violence has rocked the nation of Colombia in recent months, threatening to destabilize the democratically elected government of President Ivan Duque. A report by the Center for a Secure Free Society indicates that recent protests have been co-opted as tools of asymmetric warfare by narco-funded leftist guerillas and terrorist gangs affiliated with the despotic regimes in Vene...

Innovation depends on solid patent rights and intellectual property. The U.S. was once a world leader in securing those rights, enabling centuries of advancement from Edison’s light bulb to today’s mobile technology. Unfortunately, America’s “gold standard” patent system has been replaced. Today, China and Europe secure more reliable and effective patent rights and are reaping the benefits. Patent...

In 1972, Congress passed Title IX of the Education Amendments, heralding a new age of equal opportunities for females in academics and athletics. After five decades of progress for women in education, Title IX’s legacy is endangered by a new gender ideology that makes being female a matter of self-identification rather than biological reality. &nbs...

With the United States still in the grips of an opioid crisis, the number of overdose fatalities has increasingly been driven by a narcotic even more potent than heroin: the synthetic opioid fentanyl. Fentanyl and its analogues are  50-100 times more powerful than morphine ; even minute amounts can lead to death. Fentanyl is often added to her...

The Heritage Foundation is honored to host former Vice President Mike Pence for our signature event on U.S. policy in the Indo-Pacific. Heritage’s annual B.C. Lee Lecture on international affairs was endowed by the Samsung Group in honor of its founder, the late B.C. Lee, to focus on the U.S. relationship with the Indo-Pacific. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Freedom of speech and free exercise of religion are at the heart of the American understanding of liberty. Even before our Founding, people flocked to our shores to escape religious persecution and live more freely. Judge David Stras joins us for a special address, reflecting on how his grandparents’ harrowing experiences during the Holocaust shaped his own beliefs and influenced hi...

The Supreme Court’s 2020-21 term is almost finished. There were important cases involving religious liberty ( Fulton v. City of Philadelphia ), separation of powers ( Collins v. Yellen ), donor privacy rights ( Americans for Prosperity v. Becerra ), election law ( AZ Republican Party v. DNC ), disputes about Obamacare ( California v. Texas ), and much more. Join us as our “scholars and scribes” br...

America’s rising consumer price index (CPI) and weak job growth have caused talk of 1970s-style “stagflation,” an economy that exhibits both high unemployment and inflation. Is this the case, and if so, what are the appropriate responses from Congress and the Federal Reserve? In an environment where the line between fiscal and monetary policy has become increasingly blurry, it is important to sepa...

Imposing anti-American  critical race theory  on our troops directly threatens our national security by spreading ideas that undermine confidence in the principles underpinning our Constitution and destroying trust in our system of government. Traditional Americanism promotes unity, cohesion and equality among service members. Indoctrinating troops against those values runs directly coun...

When the city of Philadelphia stopped working with Catholic Social Services because of their religious beliefs about marriage, qualified and willing foster parents were left with empty beds. This was nothing less than an act of cruelty, and the Supreme Court unanimously ruled it an unconstitutional violation of religious freedom in  Fulton v. City of Philadelphia . This major religious freedo...

As China continues its rise, the actions of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) have implications across the globe and the need for transparency is increasingly important. Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, the CCP has often withheld, manipulated, and falsified data for its own purposes. In 2020, The Heritage Foundation launched an initiative to shed light on alternative sources of transparency. As...

How did Great Britain manage to break free of the E.U.? What does Brexit mean for the U.K.’s future and its partnership with the U.S.?    Since the historic Brexit referendum in June of 2016, the United Kingdom has completely left the European Union and is once again a truly free, sovereign nation, controlling its borders, fully deciding its laws, and signin...

First Principles Townhall: Parents Bringing Civics to the Public Square Facing a culture increasingly hostile to the principles of the American Founding, parents across the country are asking for help in passing on the American legacy to the next generation.  The Heritage Foundation’s First Principles Townhall  will speak into this moment, offering participants the educational tools to g...