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The 2020 Antipoverty Forum will highlight people and policies reconnecting communities to overcome poverty and social challenges. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The key to achieving human flourishing is culture -- not genes, geography, institutions, or policies. In his latest book,  Why Culture Matters Most , Dr. David Rose argues that societal success depends on the ability to impart moral beliefs through culture, strengthening a society’s institutions and practices. Join our second Russell Kirk Lecture for a conversation with Dr. David Rose ab...

The  2021 Index of U.S. Military Strength   is The Heritage Foundation’s seventh annual assessment of the United States Armed Forces’ ability to provide for the common defense. This year’s assessment reflects that progress has been made in building up America’s military forces, but a great deal of work remains. This year’s Index provides a fresh, authoritative assessment of the U.S. mili...

Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic and in the face of a rising China, the U.S.-Taiwan partnership is more important than ever. Taiwan is an important partner in the Free and Open Indo-Pacific strategy and a strong democracy with shared values. For years, The Heritage Foundation has called for the U.S. forging an ever-closer partnership with Taiwan, from advocating for a free trade agreement to actively...

The 2020 election perplexed many in the media and the coastal elites. In Florida, Cuban-American and Puerto Rican voters helped deliver the state for President Trump; in the Rio Grande Valley, Texas’ Mexican-American heartland also turned out in unexpected numbers for the President. Even in the Golden State, Chinese-American parents organized to turn back an attempt to reintroduce racial preferenc...

Abortion, embryo-destructive research, assisted reproductive technologies, artificial wombs, genetically modified babies, physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia. These are just a small sampling of the bioethical questions our country will have to address in the coming years. Lying beneath these questions are competing visions of what it means to be a human being and how human beings flourish. J...

On November 11, 1620, English settlers arrived in the New World seeking religious freedom. But when the Pilgrims landed near Cape Cod, Massachusetts, they quickly realized they needed something more: a document that would make possible a self-governing community. The result was the Mayflower Compact, a social contract and “a covenant” for a new political society. This remarkable document, an early...

Does school choice treat children as widgets? Does it hurt children with special needs? Does school choice have racist origins? Does it siphon money from public schools and balkanize Americans? In  School Choice Myths: Setting the Record Straight on Education Freedom , a new book edited by Corey DeAngelis (Reason Foundation) and Neal McCluskey (Cato Institute), 14 of the nation’s top educatio...

Foster families provide life-saving care for thousands of children each year. These families, in turn, are served by various agencies, both religious and secular, which equip, support, and empower them to care for children. Unfortunately, the City of Philadelphia told longtime foster parents that they could no longer work with Catholic Social Services — because the City doesn’t like its Catholic b...

It has been an unprecedented election season, including a global pandemic, widespread civil unrest, and the increasing polarization of the country. Americans have a lot to contemplate as they go to the ballot box. But once the people have spoken…it’s time to analyze the results. Join our all-star panel for unique insights on how the results could translate into policy and action. There will be no...

The Heritage Foundation’s Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies is honored to announce that former Attorney General Ed Meese will deliver our thirteenth Joseph Story Distinguished Lecture. The event will be a conversation with him, reflecting on his life, legacy, and over 50 years within the conservative movement. The namesake of the lecture—the eminent jurist Joseph Story—became t...

In 2010, six organizations set out to redefine civics education. What they brought about is known as “New Civics,” “Action Civics,” “Civic Engagement,” or “Project-Based Civics.” Dr. Lindsay’s important new study examines the origins, nature, and educational effects of this movement in civic education and demonstrates that it has a clear progressive bias, teaches our kids to protest, and leads to...

Operation Warp Speed (OWS) is an unprecedented public-private partnership to produce and deliver 300 million doses of a safe and effective COVID-19 vaccine by January 2021. Thus far nearly $10 billion has been directed by Congress to this effort which carries the promise of an early end to the pandemic and the resumption by Americans of their normal lives. The two main government partners within O...

Every night, nearly half a million Americans sleep in homeless shelters, cars, and the streets. Sadly, many of these citizens struggle with addiction or mental illness. Yet in America’s most progressive cities, left-wing mayors and city councils spend billions of dollars on homelessness programs with insufficient results. Why do the most progressive cities have the highest rates of homelessness? W...

From building the border wall to rescinding the unconstitutional DACA program to stopping illegal immigrant caravans from Central America, the Trump Administration has made a dizzying number of border security and immigration changes. Border security and immigration are regularly among the top issues that Americans care about because they affect so many aspects of our lives – the economy, crime, p...

American security interests are challenged by worrisome developments across the globe, ranging from China’s rapid military buildup to Russian adventurism to North Korean nuclear programs. COVID-19 has had an effect on all of America and the U.S. military has not been spared. To counter these threats and more the Defense Department developed and executes today the 2018 National Defense Strategy. Th...

The emerging market, especially in Africa, has achieved many technological advances in the past several years. Meanwhile, China's burgeoning fifth-generation (5G) wireless network offers developing countries faster access to the rest of the world and the ability to expand their industries with the use of digital technology. But, at what cost? The U.S., arm-in-arm with the rest of the free world, m...

In some respects, 2020 has been a disappointing year for the Second Amendment. The Supreme Court continued its decade-long silence on this important constitutional right, and gun control legislation remains a potent rallying cry for many local, state, and national lawmakers. And yet, 2020 is nevertheless poised to be a year of Second Amendment resurgence. Nationwide protests, violent crime spikes...

The 2020 presidential election continues to get more tumultuous as Election Day approaches. With concern over the threat of COVID-19 and an explosion in election-related litigation, there is an organized push for all-mail voting as a substitute for casting ballots at the polls. Given the documented security vulnerabilities and serious problems with delayed and misdelivery of mail-in or absentee ba...

For decades the transatlantic partnership has helped promote peace, security, prosperity, and freedom. Join us as we explore the potential, challenges, and future of the partnership in bringing these assets to bear on the China challenge. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Several months ago, the first reports of a deadly virus in Wuhan began to surface. As the global health community sought answers, the Chinese Communist Party hid behind a Great Wall of Secrecy. Now, as the Chinese government pursues a doubling of their nuclear arsenal, they’re hiding behind the same wall. What are China’s true nuclear ambitions? How must the U.S.—and the world—respond? The Heritag...

President Trump has nominated Judge Amy Coney Barrett to succeed Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the U.S. Supreme Court. Barrett has served on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit since November 2017 and has authored over 100 opinions during her nearly three years on the bench. Before becoming a federal judge, she was a law professor at the University of Notre Dame Law School. During h...

India and the United States find themselves increasingly converging on the key geopolitical issues of our time: counterterrorism, the Free and Open Indo-Pacific, rules-based order, and the need for transparent and sustainable infrastructure in South Asia. As an unprecedented crisis simmers at the China-India border, the India-U.S. strategic partnership is poised to assume even greater si...

Over the last four years, the United States has taken great strides in the domain of space. The Department of Defense has been reorganized to add a new service and a new combatant command whose collective focus is the warfighting domain of space. NASA was given new strategic guidance for human exploration of space and funding to make it happen. This year alone, the commercial sector will more than...

On October 6th, 2017, President Trump signed the Women Peace and Security Act, the first legislation of its kind in the world. To commemorate the third anniversary of the Act and to launch the American Council on Women, Peace, and Security, panelists will examine America’s unique contributions to the WPS agenda in an era of strategic competition. Join us as experts discuss how the United States wi...