2007 archives

November

• December 19 | By Nathaniel Ward
  The largest spending bill in U.S. history
  Big spenders in Congress unveiled the largest spending bill in American history late Sunday night. And Heritage found the flaws.
• November 30 | By Nathaniel Ward
  Any chance for peace in Israel?
  There’s reason to be skeptical that a Middle East peace agreement will come to pass after Annapolis.
• November 20 | By Nathaniel Ward
  A cheap and clean energy alternative
  Even as it encourages dubious energy policies, Heritage experts write, the government continues to impose burdens on a proven way to cheaply generate emissions-free energy: nuclear power.
• November 20 | By Nathaniel Ward
  The mother of all tax hikes
  Should Congress shut down a major city like Kansas City for a year? That would be the economic effect of a tax-hike plan winding its way through Congress.
• November 16 | By Nathaniel Ward
  Liberals revert to tax-and-spend
  Liberals swept into office in January making promises get the nation’s fiscal house in order. Instead, Heritage expert Brian Riedl writes, “the Democratic Congress has reverted to traditional tax-and-spend budgets.”
• November 14 | By Nathaniel Ward
  Meeting demonstrates Heritage impact
  Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas highlighted the fall President’s Club meeting, held Monday and Tuesday in Washington, D.C.
• November 14 | By Nathaniel Ward
  Hearing from Heritage experts
  Heritage members had an opportunity to interact directly with Heritage experts during the President’s Club meeting.

October

• October 26 | By Nathaniel Ward
  A modest jurist
  Justice Clarence Thomas: “I’m just an ordinary person to whom extraordinary things have happened.”
• October 2 | By Rebecca Hagelin
  The justice speaks
  Heritage Vice President Rebecca Hagelin on Justice Clarence Thomas’ new memoir, My Grandfather’s Son.

September

• September 15 | By Nathaniel Ward
  Heritage expert answers your Iraq questions
  Kirk Johnson answers questions from Heritage members on the Iraq surge strategy.
• September 15 | By Colin Gowan
  Where next in Iraq?
  While Gen. David Petraeus’ surge strategy in Iraq has been successful overall, much remains to be done to improve the political climate in the country, a panel of experts said Thursday at The Heritage Foundation.
• September 15 | By Colin Gowan
  Do voter ID rules depress turnout? No.
  Liberals argue that requiring citizens to identify themselves when voting depresses voter turnout, especially among racial minorities. They’re wrong.
• September 15 | By Nathaniel Ward
  Will Congress uphold the Constitution?
  The Senate will vote as soon as next week on a measure that violates explicit and plain provisions in the Constitution.
• September 13 | By Nathaniel Ward
  Returning ‘Power to the People ’
  Heritage Vice President Rebecca Hagelin reviews Laura Ingraham’s latest book, Power to the People.
• September 7 | By Nathaniel Ward
  New York Times columnist praises Heritage plan
  A Heritage Foundation civil society proposal provides “the perfect vision for 21st-century America,” writes New York Times columnist David Brooks.
• September 7 | By Nathaniel Ward
  John Bolton on fixing the U.N.
  The United Nations suffers from “a kind of entitlement mentality” and ignores American reform efforts, former United Nations Ambassador John Bolton said yesterday at The Heritage Foundation.

August

• August 21 | By Nathaniel Ward
  On the right track with immigration
  Bush administration immigration plans are a “smart and sensible” first step upon which additional necessary measures can be built, writes Heritage’s Matthew Spalding.
• August 21 | By Nathaniel Ward
  Where do liberals and conservatives stand on health care?
  Heritage Foundation health care expert Bob Moffit looks at the difference between liberal and conservative health care solutions.
• August 21 | By Nathaniel Ward
  P.C. liberals tried to censor Islamism documentary
  The Heritage Foundation’s Ken McIntyre explains how politically correct liberals at PBS tried to censor a “powerful documentary about moderate Muslims who refuse to be intimidated and silenced by extremists within their faith.”
• August 9 | By Nathaniel Ward
  How Estonia overcame communism
  Despite decades under communism, Estonia today has one of the most dynamic economies in Europe. What happened?
• August 9 | By Nathaniel Ward
  Leading the way on entitlement reform
  Heritage is guiding the debate on entitlement reform, Stuart Butler writes in The Washington Post.
• August 8 | By Nathaniel Ward
  Senator cites Heritage on health care
  Speaking on the Senate floor, Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) cited Heritage proposals for alternatives to big-government health care.
• August 8 | By DeEtte Chatterton
  Teaching principles to the next generation
  Hosted by Matthew Spalding of Heritage’s Center for America’s Studies, the weekly First Principles discussions gave me an insight into the principles and values of the Founding Fathers.
• August 8 | By Lauren Volpe
  An antidote to liberal academia
  Refreshing. That one word can sum up my summer working as an intern at The Heritage Foundation.
• August 8 | By Sephanie Herbert
  A different kind of internship
  The New York Times was right: the Heritage internship program truly deserves its reputation of being the best in Washington, D.C.
• August 2 | By Nathaniel Ward
  Marching toward HillaryCare
  Expanding the federal children’s health program is part of a plan crafted nearly 15 years ago to impose socialized medicine through the back door.
• August 2 | By DeEtte Chatterton
  What next after amnesty?
  Americans rightly want to know what’s next in the fight to secure the borders and reform the immigration system.
• August 2 | By Nathaniel Ward
  Remembering Milton Friedman
  Rep. Jeff Flake (R-AZ) joined Cato Institute President Ed Crane and Heritage Foundation President Ed Feulner yesterday in Heritage’s Lehrman Auditorium for a celebration of what would have been Milton Friedman’s 95th birthday.

July

• July 27 | By DeEtte Chatterton
  Cash for concrete farmers
  Writing in the Chicago Tribune, Heritage Foundation President Ed Feulner exposes one of the most wasteful federal spending practices in America: farm subsidies.
• July 24 | By DeEtte Chatterton
  Captive nations
  Heritage helps us remember that more than a billion people today remain under the yoke of oppressive communist governments.
• July 24 | By Nathaniel Ward
  Witness to a daring escape
  Heritage Vice President Rebecca Hagelin recently had a firsthand encounter with a group of Cuban refugees.
• July 24 | By DeEtte Chatterton
  The legacy of communism
  Last month, President Bush joined Heritage Foundation scholar Lee Edwards and others to dedicate the Victims of Communism Memorial in Washington, D.C.
• July 12 | By Nathaniel Ward
  Why liberals want you to smoke
  The government could soon be in the business of encouraging smoking, according to a stunning analysis from Heritage’s Center for Data Analysis.
• July 12 | By Nathaniel Ward
  A good term for the Supreme Court
  How good was the recently-concluded Supreme Court term for conservatives? “This was a term for conservatives to go dancing in the streets.”
• July 12 | By Nathaniel Ward
  Tax cuts work, spending restraint needed
  The government has released a new report showing once again the benefits of the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts.
• July 10 | By Nathaniel Ward
  How conservatives can prevail
  To make the case for limiting government and defending the nation, conservatives in Congress should recommit to their core principles, Rep. Roy Blunt (R-MO) said today at The Heritage Foundation.
• July 10 | By Nathaniel Ward
  Liberals push for a new entitlement
  Liberals in Congress are looking to create a vast new entitlement—under cover of “helping the children”—by expanding a health care program for low-income children to cover families making $80,000 a year.
• July 10 | By Nathaniel Ward
  Where conservatives and liberals agree
  Heritage education expert Dan Lips explains that “conservatives and liberals alike are calling for greater state and local control of schools.”
• July 6 | By Nathaniel Ward
  Good news on free speech
  “The original meaning of the First Amendment was partially restored by a key Supreme Court decision last week,” Heritage President Ed Feulner writes in The Chicago Sun-Times.
• July 6 | By Nathaniel Ward
  And mixed news on free speech
  The House of Representatives recently voted—and overwhelmingly—to block funding for the so-called Fairness Doctrine. But challenges remain.
• July 3 | By Nathaniel Ward
  The real meaning of Independence Day
  Heritage Foundation scholar Matthew Spalding reminds us of what lies at the heart of the holiday.
• July 3 | By Nathaniel Ward
  Heritage gets the message out
  Last night, Heritage experts took to the airwaves nine different times, demonstrating exactly how we’re getting the job done.
• July 3 | By Nathaniel Ward
  Taking a stand on education
  Conservatives in Congress are setting their sights on No Child Left Behind.
• July 3 | By DeEtte Chatterton
  Free enterprise and irrationality
  Liberals are mistaken in their belief that restrictions on commerce are good for the American economy, economist Bryan Caplan said yesterday at the Heritage Foundation.
• July 3 | By Nathaniel Ward
  A reminder that we’re at war
  The lessons of the recent attempted terrorist attacks in Britain.

June

• June 28 | By Nathaniel Ward
  Where next on immigration?
  It’s important that we continue to make the case for a principled immigration reform plan.
• June 28 | By Nathaniel Ward
  Senate blocks immigration bill
  Senate conservatives stood together today to block a vote on Sen. Ted Kennedy’s misguided “compromise” immigration proposal.
• June 28 | By Nathaniel Ward
  How Heritage shaped the debate
  Heritage Foundation analysis helped shape the debate on the recent immigration proposal.
• June 28 | By Nathaniel Ward
  The battle for sane budgets
  The spending process makes clear that though many politicians speak its praises, “fiscal responsibility” remains just a catchphrase.
• June 28 | By Nathaniel Ward
  Britain’s new leadership
  Gordon Brown’s premiership could have a large impact on trans-Atlantic relations, Heritage foreign policy expert Nile Gardiner writes in a new analysis.
• June 26 | By Nathaniel Ward
  Immigration update
  A roundup of Heritage’s latest work on immigration.
• June 26 | By Nathaniel Ward
  J.C. Watts on why Heritage matters
  The Heritage Foundation forms a vital part of the conservative movement, former Rep. J.C. Watts said in a wide-ranging speech to Heritage members in New York last Thursday.
• June 26 | By Nathaniel Ward
  Remembering Russell Kirk
  Speaking at the Heritage Foundation last week, scholar and noted author George Nash recounted Russell Kirk’s remarkable life and his essential conservative writings.
• June 21 | By Nathaniel Ward
  Unions push controls on the economy
  Big Labor and its allies are in a bit of a bind, Heritage labor expert James Sherk writes.
• June 21 | By Nathaniel Ward
  Low-skill immigration and big government
  A Heritage expert outlines one of the problems with the immigration bill: it would expand the size of government.
• June 21 | By Nathaniel Ward
  Heritage expert testifies on terrorism
  To protect its citizens, European countries must designate Hezbollah a terrorist organization and work to curtail its activities.
• June 21 | By Nathaniel Ward
  How farm subsidies hurt taxpayers, consumers and farmers
  America’s farm subsidies exacerbate many of the problems they’re intended to solve.
• June 19 | By DeEtte Chatterton
  Islam and Europe
  Europe faces a number of challenges from extremist Islam, a British Member of the European Parliament declared today at a Heritage Foundation panel discussion.
• June 19 | By Nathaniel Ward
  The return of immigration ‘reform’
  Liberals in Congress—and a few self-described conservatives as well—are working hard to revive the flawed immigration bill, which was withdrawn from consideration just two weeks ago.
• June 19 | By Nathaniel Ward
  Liberals plan to cut missile defense
  Congressmen propose a defense bill that would undermine efforts to expand America’s missile defense capability, leaving America’s citizens and armed forces exposed.
• June 15 | By Nathaniel Ward
  Designing a worse energy policy
  Liberals in Congress are loading up their new energy bill with all sorts of misguided policies.
• June 14 | By John Fogarty
  Four percent for freedom
  Heritage Distinguished Fellow Jim Talent speaks to Heritage members about military spending.
• June 12 | By DeEtte Chatterton
  Remembering communism’s victims
  President George W. Bush joins Heritage scholar Lee Edwards to dedicate the new Victims of Communism Memorial.
• June 12 | By Nathaniel Ward
  What’s next on immigration?
  With the Senate bill gone (for now), it’s time for real, conservative immigration reform.
• June 12 | By Nathaniel Ward
  Heritage’s immigration impact
  A rundown of Heritage’s work and impact on immigration over the past few weeks.
• June 12 | By Nathaniel Ward
  How fathers matter
  A new compilation of family research by Heritage’s FamilyFacts.org demonstrates once again the importance of traditional families—and in particular the importance of fathers.
• June 12 | By DeEtte Chatterton
  How Iraq affects U.S. ties to Britain
  Heritage experts explain that an early withdrawal from Iraq would have “catastrophic implications for the future” of U.S.-British ties.
• June 7 | By Nathaniel Ward
  Meese: Plan is worse than 1986 amnesty
  The immigration plan now being considered by Congress “isn’t the 1986 amnesty deal all over again,” Heritage scholar Edwin Meese argues in today’s Wall Street Journal. “It’s worse.”
• June 7 | By Nathaniel Ward
  Immigration update
  A review of what Heritage experts have been doing to highlight the policy questions involved in this legislation.
• June 7 | By DeEtte Chatterton
  Heritage panel urges visa reforms
  Sen. George Voinovich (R-OH) today joined former homeland security officer Stewart Verdery and State Department official John Brennan in calling for swift Congressional adoption of an expanded and improved Visa Waiver Program.
• June 7 | By Nathaniel Ward
  Heritage research goes local
  Citizens nationwide are working hard to ensure their voices are heard. And many are turning to The Heritage Foundation for the facts as they compose letters to their local newspapers.
• June 5 | By Nathaniel Ward
  How (not) to stop gang crime
  Gang crime is a serious problem. But Congress’ proposed solution—making such activity a federal offense—could actually make the problem worse.
• June 5 | By Nathaniel Ward
  Paulson: China needs to reform
  Prompt Chinese adoption of free-enterprise reforms will benefit both China and the United States, Secretary of the Treasury Henry Paulson said today at The Heritage Foundation.
• June 1 | By Nathaniel Ward
  Help Heritage educate the public on immigration
  The Heritage Foundation’s newest radio advertisement has played on hundreds of radio stations nationwide this week.
• June 1 | By Nathaniel Ward
  Immigration update
  Heritage experts have been busy these past few days getting the word out on the Senate’s immigration plan.
• June 1 | By Nathaniel Ward
  Federal preschools?
  “Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY) recently unveiled a proposal for a new $10 billion federal program to offer government-subsidized preschool for all children across the country,” Dan Lips writes.
• June 1 | By Nathaniel Ward
  Debunking liberal myths about poverty and inequality
  As they make the case for massive government intervention in the economy, liberals like to point to statistics suggesting an expanding gap between rich and poor. Not so fast.
• June 1 | By Nathaniel Ward
  Beefing up America’s image overseas
  America must adopt a “sustained and focused strategy” to turn its overseas image around, Heritage research fellow Lisa Curtis argued recently before Congress.

May

• May 27 | By Nathaniel Ward
  Watch Ed Meese on immigration
  Heritage scholar Ed Meese, who served as President Reagan’s attorney general, has filmed a new Heritage video to debunk myths about the proposed immigration legislation.
• May 27 | By Nathaniel Ward
  Ten major flaws in the immigration bill
  Heritage Foundation experts have spent the past week closely examining the immigration legislation currently being considered in the Senate.
• May 27 | By Nathaniel Ward
  How a new law could drain drivers’ wallets
  The House of Representatives has passed a law prohibiting “price gouging” at the gasoline pump.
• May 27 | By Nathaniel Ward
  Debunking immigration distortions
  ne indication that The Heritage Foundation is taking charge in the immigration debate is the lead editorial in Thursday’s Wall Street Journal.
• May 27 | By Nathaniel Ward
  Limiting political debate
  Liberal proposals to reinstate the so-called “Fairness Doctrine” would make for bad policy and violate the Constitution.
• May 27 | By Nathaniel Ward
  Heritage experts meet with U.N. official
  As part of its efforts to ensure the United Nations report is fair, a delegation of Heritage experts met with the investigator last week.
• May 18 | By Nathaniel Ward
  Senate reaches immigration deal
  Proposed amnesty legislation would reward those who have lived and worked illegally in the United States with a legal residency and a work permit.
• May 18 | By Nathaniel Ward
  Why the Law of the Sea is wrong for America
  The Law of the Sea has reared its ugly head again, and it’s no better than before.
• May 18 | By Nathaniel Ward
  Why mandatory paid sick leave is a bad idea
  Liberals have somehow come to see payment for not working as a “right”—and they want to compel employers to provide it.
• May 15 | By Nathaniel Ward
  How a liberal-backed proposal could limit your rights
  A proposed new law sponsored by Congressional liberals including Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) would impose a gag rule on ordinary Americans who seek to speak with government officials.
• ‘An unapologetic spokesman for Judeo-Christian values’
  Feulner: 'A man of deep faith, the Rev. Dr. Jerry Falwell was an unapologetic spokesman for the Judeo-Christian values on which America is based.’
• How Congress uses Heritage research
  Members of Congress were quick to use Heritage tax research to explain the problem with the liberal budget.
• The keys to economic growth
  Speakers argue that while American-style capitalism has enjoyed strong economic growth, other forms of capitalism are far less robust.
• May 10 | By Nathaniel Ward
  Immigration reform—the right way
  Edwin Meese and Matthew Spalding outline the principles Congress and the White House must keep in mind when considering any change to the nation’s immigration laws.
• May 10 | By Nathaniel Ward
  Our troops are not victims
  The inappropriateness of using the troops to score political points.
• May 10 | By Nathaniel Ward
  Tony Blair’s resignation
  Though he was a strong American ally, Tony Blair will not be remembered as a transformative leader.
• May 10 | By Nathaniel Ward
  Punish the crime, not the thought
  Expanding federal hate crime laws is a bad idea.
• May 8 | By Nathaniel Ward
  An American friend in France?
  A post-election analysis of Nicolas Sarkozy’s victory in France’s presidential elections.
• May 8 | By Nathaniel Ward
  Other happenings at President’s Club
  Heritage members had the opportunity to hear other notable speakers at yesterday’s President’s Club meeting.
• May 8 | By Nathaniel Ward
  Giuliani at Heritage: Go on offense
  The American government must go “on the offense” on both economic and national security policy, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani told Heritage Foundation members yesterday.
• May 8 | By Nathaniel Ward
  How William F. Buckley shaped conservatism
  A look at Strictly Right, the first biography of William F. Buckley by conservative authors.
• May 3 | By Nathaniel Ward
  Next step on Iraq: A clean funding bill
  President Bush’s veto was the right thing to do, Heritage experts write in a new paper.
• May 3 | By Nathaniel Ward
  Sounding the alarm on spending
  We should not lose sight of another real crisis America faces: the looming entitlement bust.
• May 3 | By Nathaniel Ward
  Families, teens and sexual activity
  Liberals like to pretend that teenage sex is a healthy activity and that parents would be hard-pressed to stop this behavior even if they wanted to. They’re wrong.
• May 2 | By Gary Becker
  The legacy of Milton Friedman
  Gary Becker’s remarks to The Heritage Foundation’s Annual Leadership Conference and Board Meeting in Chicago, IL on Friday, April 13.
• May 1 | By Nathaniel Ward
  Heritage’s Swanson wins book award
  Heritage’s James Swanson has won the Edgar Allen Poe Award for the best true crime book of 2006.
• May 1 | By Nathaniel Ward
  One thousand lectures
  Yesterday’s lecture on Margaret Thatcher’s leadership was the 1,000th lecture held at The Heritage Foundation.
• May 1 | By Nathaniel Ward
  See John Stossel at Heritage on May 8
  MyHeritage.org readers are encouraged to attend John Stossel's lecture on May 8.
• May 1 | By Nathaniel Ward
  The consequences of retreat
  Heritage experts on the consequences of American withdrawal from Iraq.
• May 1 | By Nathaniel Ward
  Why deadlines are wrong
  Heritage’s James Carafano outlines four important reasons Congress was wrong to set a fixed timeline for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq.
• May 1 | By Nathaniel Ward
  Why Bush should veto the Iraq bill
  “The President is getting ready to veto the supplemental, and he’s right to do that,” Heritage expert Alison Fraser says.

April

• April 26 | By Nathaniel Ward
  Recent research of note
  With Congress back in session, Heritage Foundation experts are turning out research papers to help members make decisions on the issues.
• April 26 | By Nathaniel Ward
  Wear red on Fridays
  Heritage’s Rob Bluey reports on a new grassroots effort to display support for the troops: wear red on Fridays.
• April 26 | By Nathaniel Ward
  How Washington, D.C. can vote in Congress
  “It makes sense that D.C. should have a vote,” Heritage scholar Matt Spalding explains. “But it’s unconstitutional.”
• April 26 | By Nathaniel Ward
  Heritage’s impact
  John McCain turns to The Heritage Foundation for inspiration for his economic agenda.
• April 25 | By Nathaniel Ward
  Liberals’ anti-war push intensifies
  Liberals in Congress are stepping up their anti-war push and playing politics with national security.
• April 25 | By Nathaniel Ward
  America’s entitlement crisis
  Hard as it may be to believe, America’s long-term spending problem actually got worse over the past year.
• April 25 | By Nathaniel Ward
  Ignoring the reality of the war
  Liberals in the House have proposed abolishing the phrase “the long war” to refer to the war on terror.
• April 19 | By Nathaniel Ward
  Should government ban talk radio?
  Liberals have proposed that Congress reinstate onerous regulations known as the “Fairness Doctrine” that could ban conservatives fromt the airwaves.
• April 19 | By Nathaniel Ward
  Cheney to Heritage members: Congress must fund the war on terror
  Speaking at a Heritage Foundation event in Chicago last Friday, Vice President Dick Cheney defended the war on terror.
• April 19 | By Nathaniel Ward
  Congress urges fiscal responsibility
  Congress is now promoting fiscal responsibility. Seriously.
• April 19 | By Nathaniel Ward
  Get the pork out of education
  Federal education spending, like that in other departments, is heavily laden with special interest earmarks.
• April 19 | By Nathaniel Ward
  A convenient fiction
  Large parts of Gore’s film An Inconvenient Truth are based on “extreme claims” that are “not backed up by science” but instead advance a left-wing agenda, Steven Hayward says.
• April 13 | By Dick Cheney
  Vice President Cheney speaks to Heritage members
  Vice President Dick Cheney explains Iraq policy to Heritage Foundation members in Chicago.
• April 12 | By Nathaniel Ward
  Congress’s hidden tax hike
  In their budget, the liberal majority inserted hundreds of billions of dollars in new spending and, though they strenuously deny it, a massive tax hike.
• April 12 | By Nathaniel Ward
  Iran after the hostage crisis
  Now that Iran’s radical government has released the 15 British sailors and marines it kidnapped, what should America and its allies do next?
• April 12 | By Nathaniel Ward
  Are our children less patriotic?
  Co-author Myrna Blyth will be speaking at The Heritage Foundation during the April Conservative Women’s Network luncheon at noon on Friday.
• April 12 | By Nathaniel Ward
  Vetoing the irresponsible Iraq bill
  President Bush must veto any unconstitutional and irresponsible war funding legislation, Heritage Foundation President Ed Feulner argues.
• April 10 | By Nathaniel Ward
  This week on the Hill
  Heritage’s Brian Darling looks at the week’s most important issues on Capitol Hill.
• April 10 | By Jim Weidman
  Nostalgic for the ’70s
  Who doesn’t miss the block-long lines at the pump, the odd-day/even-day fill-up regime, and the “malaise” that went with it?
• April 10 | By Nathaniel Ward
  National Review: Heritage is ‘God’s Gift to Cable News’
  The Heritage Foundation’s new Heritage in Focus video series is making a splash in the media.
• April 10 | By Nathaniel Ward
  Big labor’s anti-business campaigns
  After decades of declining membership, labor unions are becoming increasingly desperate to sign up more members.
• April 10 | By Nathaniel Ward
  Sen. Coburn Speaks at Heritage
  Health care reforms based on principles of free enterprise will bring about “increased health, increased quality of life and decreased costs,” Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) said today at The Heritage Foundation.
• April 5 | By Nathaniel Ward
  The Massachusetts model for health care reform
  Massachusetts’ experiment in market-based health care reform is showing progress already.
• April 5 | By Nathaniel Ward
  The cost of government programs
  Robert Rector identifies the tremendous costs of programs for low-skill workers.
• April 5 | By Nathaniel Ward
  Speaker Pelosi’s trip to Syria
  Speaker Pelosi did more than simply conduct a fact-finding mission as members of Congress typically do overseas.
• April 3 | By Nathaniel Ward
  Liberals falsely claim end of conservative movement
  The poll results on which Paul Krugman based his column didn’t strike Heritage’s Mike Franc the right way.
• April 3 | By Nathaniel Ward
  Explaining Iran’s belligerence
  “Iran has grand ambitions,” Heritage’s Peter Brookes writes in Armed Forces Journal.
• April 3 | By Nathaniel Ward
  Time for a change in education policy
  Though federal education policy has failed to meet its promises, liberals lcontinue to push for more of the same.

March

• March 29 | By Nathaniel Ward
  The importance of family—II
  A new study serves as yet another refutation of the liberal crusade to diminish the importance of traditional families.
• March 29 | By Nathaniel Ward
  Heritage explains economic freedom
  Heritage’s Tim Kane traveled to the CNBC television studios to film an in-depth segment on The Index of Economic Freedom.
• March 29 | By Nathaniel Ward
  A good month for Peter Brookes
  March has been good to Heritage foreign policy expert Peter Brookes.
• March 29 | By Nathaniel Ward
  Will Britain strike Iran?
  Heritage's Nile Gardiner predicts that Britain will engage in a “gradual military buildup” in response to Iranian provocations.
• March 27 | By Nathaniel Ward
  How liberals plan to raise your taxes
  Congress’ new budget contains what Heritage budget expert Brian Riedl calls “the largest peacetime tax increase in American history.
• March 27 | By Nathaniel Ward
  A D.C. vote in Congress? Not so fast
  But while the plan to grant a seat in Congress to the nation's capital may have been “bipartisan,” that doesn’t mean was good law.
• March 27 | By Nathaniel Ward
  Not just ‘for the children’
  Many states have violated both the letter and the spirit of the health program for children.
• March 27 | By Nathaniel Ward
  The cost of global warming taxes
  If gas taxes are higher, the theory goes, people will drive less and emit less carbon dioxide. Unfortunately, it doesn’t work that way.
• March 22 | By Nathaniel Ward
  MyHeritage.org myth busters: Global warming
  The Heritage Foundation’s experts have debunked a number of prevalent liberal myths on global warming.
• March 22 | By Nathaniel Ward
  Heritage experts to Congress: follow the Constitution
  Heritage legal experts send a letter about unconstitutional measures in Congress’ war funding bill.
• March 22 | By Nathaniel Ward
  The facts behind the U.S. Attorneys battle
  In the debate of the U.S. Attorneys’ dismissal, it’s important that both sides agree on the basic facts.
• March 20 | By Nathaniel Ward
  Ted Kennedy snubs Fox News chief
  What could have prompted Sen. Kennedy to march out on Fox News chairman Roger Ailes?
• March 20 | By Nathaniel Ward
  Liberals waste taxpayer money in anti-war push
  What's more important than body armor for US troops in Iraq and Afghanistan? How about a $6.4 million pay hike for the House of Representatives?
• March 20 | By Nathaniel Ward
  The importance of family
  Traditional family structure is linked not only with reduced poverty and improved well-being, but also with reduced levels of domestic violence.
• March 20 | By Nathaniel Ward
  “Our borders are broken”
  Heritage expert James Carafano recently conducted an on-site inspection of America's border security.
• March 13 | By Nathaniel Ward
  Heritage helps secure Second Amendment rights
  Heritage Foundation experts helped secure an important victory for individual rights.
• March 13 | By Nathaniel Ward
  The stability of marriage
  Liberals maintain that “alternative lifestyles” are “just as good” as traditional marriage. But is that really the case?
• March 13 | By Nathaniel Ward
  The facts on federal spending
  To ensure Congress, the media and the American people know the facts, Heritage experts have released a new report.
• March 8 | By Nathaniel Ward
  How to reduce America’s economic freedom
  A new Heritage paper points out another danger of a minimum wage increase.
• March 8 | By Nathaniel Ward
  Improving military health care
  Congress should act promptly to fix the military's medical system, which suffers from the same problems as all government-run health programs.
• March 8 | By Nathaniel Ward
  Four percent for freedom
  “There’s rarely a downside to being strong,” writes Ed Feulner. “But threats quickly emerge when a country is seen as too weak.”
• March 8 | By Nathaniel Ward
  Death threats for challenging liberal orthodoxy
  Liberalism has a virulent new strain of political correctness, Heritage’s Helle Dale writes in The Washington Times.
• March 7 | By Nathaniel Ward
  Ed Meese speaks to Heritage members in Atlanta
  The keynote address at last week's meeting of the Atlanta Committee for Heritage was by former Attorney General Ed Meese.
• March 6 | By Nathaniel Ward
  Leading Senator praises Heritage
  Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell opened his remarks with strong praise for The Heritage Foundation and Heritage President Ed Feulner.
• March 6 | By Nathaniel Ward
  Doing immigration right
  A better immigration reform would turn to those principles of free enterprise that have served America so well in the past.
• March 6 | By Nathaniel Ward
  Applying economics to business
  Creative destruction is a rule not only for national economies but for businesses, entrepreneur Charles G. Koch reminds us in his new book, The Science of Success.
• March 6 | By Nathaniel Ward
  Minding the nation’s finances? Hardly.
  Congress has grown worse and worse when it comes to fiscal discipline, Heritage’s Ron Utt tells The New York Times.
• March 1 | By Nathaniel Ward
  End of an era in Britain?
  The “special relationship” between the United States and Britain is ailing and must be mended.
• March 1 | By Nathaniel Ward
  Terrorists adopt brutal tactics
  Peter Brookes reports on the terrorists' new use of chemical weapons in Iraq.
• March 1 | By Nathaniel Ward
  Reforming health care in the states
  Heritage is working in states around the country to advance health care reforms.
• March 1 | By Nathaniel Ward
  A new ally on federal spending reform
  The AARP appears to have dropped its previous opposition to entitlement reforms.

February

• February 27 | By Nathaniel Ward
  A world without America
  A popular new online video is based on a column by Heritage's Peter Brookes.
• February 27 | By Nathaniel Ward
  The moral case for limited government
  In an important new paper, Heritage scholar Ryan Messmore uses both moral and practical arguments to explain why government should be limited in its scope.
• February 23 | By Nathaniel Ward
  Special interests and global warming
  There seems to be a perfect storm forming that will advance harmful global warming regulations.
• February 22 | By Nathaniel Ward
  ‘An organization in deep crisis’
  Nile Gardiner, director of The Heritage Foundation ’s Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom, explains why we should be suspicious of the United Nations in this new video.
• February 22 | By Nathaniel Ward
  The case for English
  The English language, writes Heritage President Ed Feulner in The Chicago Sun-Times, is a tie that can bind Americans together.
• February 22 | By Nathaniel Ward
  Heritage's prescient analysis
  Heritage’s Nile Gardiner predicts the collapse of the Italian government.
• February 22 | By Nathaniel Ward
  Slowing runaway government
  In less than a year, the first of the Baby Boomers start collecting Social Security checks. In 2011, they become eligible for Medicare as well. This, writes Heritage Vice President Michael Franc, is “the fiscal equivalent of riding downhill with no brakes.”
• February 21 | By Nathaniel Ward
  2006 Heritage members survey
  At the end of last year, The Heritage Foundation polled its 280,000 members to find out where they stand on the important issues of the day.
• February 20 | By Nathaniel Ward
  Heritage fellow Talent in National Review
  Writing in the forthcoming March 5 issue of National Review, Talent explains the need to increase military spending.
• February 20 | By Nathaniel Ward
  ‘A protracted campaign to hamstring President Bush’
  Liberals have taken “the first step in what will be a protracted campaign to hamstring President Bush’s Middle East policy and undermine his constitutional authority as commander in chief.”
• February 20 | By Nathaniel Ward
  James Swanson’s reading list
  Heritage scholar James Swanson took to the pages of The Wall Street Journal last Saturday to highlight his five favorite books about America’s wartime Presidents.
• February 20 | By Nathaniel Ward
  The upside of low taxes
  Keeping the tax cuts in place after 2010, when they’re set to expire under current law, would be a boon for the country between 2011 and 2016.
• February 20 | By Nathaniel Ward
  An education revolution
  A new Utah law, explains Heritage education expert Dan Lips, “creates a sweeping school voucher program that puts Utah on track to offer all children a scholarship to attend the school of their parents’ choice.”
• February 15 | By Nathaniel Ward
  Happy George Washington’s Birthday
  Next Monday, many Americans will take the day off to celebrate George Washington’s Birthday, erroneously known in many circles as “President’s Day.”
• February 15 | By Nathaniel Ward
  Blocking Hugo Chavez’s advance
  Hugo Chavez's ambitions may spell disaster for more than just Venezuelans.
• February 15 | By Nathaniel Ward
  The politics of global warming
  Alarmist claims of catastrophic climate change are unsupported by science and may instead be furthering other agendas, regulation expert Christopher Horner said today at The Heritage Foundation.
• February 15 | By Nathaniel Ward
  Increasing crime—what’s to blame?
  Liberals were quick to pin the blame for the recent crime increase on cuts in federal subsidies for local law enforcement. Not so fast!”
• February 13 | By Nathaniel Ward
  Liberals try to silence conservative ideas
  When unable to refute an idea proposed by a conservative, liberals attack the messenger in an effort to stifle debate.
• February 13 | By Nathaniel Ward
  Rewarding North Korea’s bad behavior
  Despite violating treaties, North Korea “was able to win benefits, rather than suffer penalties, to halt its nuclear programs.”
• February 13 | By Nathaniel Ward
  Marriage vs. cohabitation
  Empirical research by Heritage’s FamilyFacts.org demonstrates that married couples are more stable, better off financially and less prone to depression and alcoholism.
• February 8 | By Nathaniel Ward
  The facts on global warming
  A new U.N. global warming paper is just a summary of a forthcoming report—and it was authored by U.N. bureaucrats, not scientists.
• February 8 | By Nathaniel Ward
  Subsidizing the idiot box
  Do you own a television? The federal government may give you a subsidy for it, even if you don’t use it.
• February 8 | By Nathaniel Ward
  A handout to Big Labor
  Why, if just over two percent of all minimum-wage workers belong to a union, is Big Labor so active in pushing to raise the minimum wage?
• February 8 | By Nathaniel Ward
  Other research of note
  Heritage Foundation experts have been producing papers at a tremendous clip.
• February 6 | By Nathaniel Ward
  Conservatism’s bright future
  “Conservatives have won the battle of ideas so completely that liberals seldom even bother attempting to engage us in that arena anymore,” Heritage Foundation President Ed Feulner writes in The DC Examiner.
• February 6 | By Nathaniel Ward
  Real progress on entitlement reform
  While media reports focused on the drive to balance the budget by 2012, the real news in the budget was a long-overdue proposal to reform entitlement spending.
• February 6 | By Nathaniel Ward
  Don’t Legislate Defeat—Again
  Rushing to judgment is always a poor idea—particularly when the lives of American servicemen and indeed the nation’s security are at stake.
• February 1 | By Jim Talent
  The importance of Heritage to Capitol Hill
  Former Sen. Jim Talent (R-MO) explains how Heritage advances conservative policies in Washington.
• February 1 | By Nathaniel Ward
  Taking the message straight to Congress
  Though liberals are in charge on Capitol Hill, Heritage’s policy experts continue to serve as important voices for conservative change.
• February 1 | By Nathaniel Ward
  A triple-whammy tax increase
  Heritage tax experts Rea Hederman, Alison Fraser and Bill Beach explain that it’s not one or two but three tax increases that Americans should worry about.
• February 1 | By Nathaniel Ward
  Marriage: a route out of poverty
  “Economic well-being and marital status are linked. This association is particularly strong for women,” Heritage’s FamilyFacts.org reports.
• February 1 | By Nathaniel Ward
  Talking about the war on terror
  Heritage experts prepare talking points explaining how America can win the war on terror.

January

• January 30 | By Nathaniel Ward
  Ten liberal myths about taxes
  Heritage budget expert Brian Riedl debunks the top ten liberal myths about the tax cuts.
• January 30 | By Nathaniel Ward
  Responding to China’s space weapons tests
  “The threat to our space security is real and growing,” Sen Jon Kyl (R-AZ) said yesterday at The Heritage Foundation.
• January 30 | By Nathaniel Ward
  Keeping Washington’s flame alive
  “Contrary to popular opinion, though, no act of Congress or order by any president has changed Washington’s Birthday to ‘Presidents Day,’” Matthew Spalding writes in American Legion magazine.
• January 30 | By Nathaniel Ward
  The knee-jerk liberal reaction to health care reforms
  Liberals reject a health care reform proposal they once championed.
• January 30 | By Nathaniel Ward
  Bringing conservative views into the media
  The Heritage Foundation continues to expand its reach into the mainstream media, which has long been dominated by liberal viewpoints.
• January 25 | By Nathaniel Ward
  ‘A forceful defense of the Bush Doctrine’
  Mike Franc examines the positives and negatives of President Bush's State of the Union address.
• January 25 | By Nathaniel Ward
  A close-up look at the issues
  Heritage ’s policy experts were up late Tuesday evening preparing their analyses of the issues President Bush raised in his State of the Union address.
• January 25 | By Nathaniel Ward
  Responding to the liberal response
  Heritage debunks the State of the Union response from Sen. Jim Webb (D-VA).
• January 23 | By Nathaniel Ward
  Intact families and poverty
  The link between intact families and reduced poverty.
• January 23 | By Nathaniel Ward
  On the right track for health care reform
  Heritage experts on why President Bush's proposal “takes a bold step toward fixing America’s health care system.”
• January 23 | By Jim Weidman
  The media turn to Heritage
  Concerned that, with a new, more liberal Congress setting the agenda, the press would forsake Heritage for more left-leaning experts?   Well, fear not.
• January 23 | By Nathaniel Ward
  Heritage prepares for the State of the Union
  A complete analysis of the issues the President is epected to address in tonight's speech.
• January 18 | By Nathaniel Ward
  United Nations attacks Heritage report
  A United Nations economist dismisses Heritage's Index of Economic Freedom because it opposes big government.
• January 18 | By Nathaniel Ward
  Scaremongering over security
  Writing in USA Today, James Carafano sums up how liberals generate paranoia about programs that keep the nation safe.
• January 18 | By Nathaniel Ward
  D’Souza: The goals shared by liberals and terrorists
  Both liberals and Muslim terrorists seek an American loss in the war on terror, author Dinesh D’Souza said today at The Heritage Foundation.
• January 18 | By Nathaniel Ward
  Unmarried fathers
  Out-of-wedlock fatherhood is problematic for men just as out-of-wedlock motherhood is problematic for women.
• January 16 | By Nathaniel Ward
  America fourth in economic freedom
  The United States maintains the fourth-freest economy in the world, according to the brand-new 2007 Index of Economic Freedom.
• January 16 | By Nathaniel Ward
  Just say no to new taxes
  Heritage's experts are clear: “Any tax increase would be a real and unacceptable threat to America’s prosperity.”
• January 16 | By Nathaniel Ward
  Is Congress undermining border security?
  A new law would hamper the federal government’s efforts to add thousands of new Border Patrol agents.
• January 16 | By Nathaniel Ward
  Three reforms for the United Nations
  Now would be a perfect time to implement some long-overdue reforms at the United Nations.
• January 12 | By Nathaniel Ward
  The collapse of civil discourse
  Members of Congress should remember the Founders' lessons on civility and politeness.
• January 11 | By Nathaniel Ward
  The ‘New Way Forward’ in Iraq
  President Bush's Iraq policy is “a calculated gamble,” writes Heritage Middle East scholar Jim Phillips.
• January 11 | By Nathaniel Ward
  The wrong prescription for prescription drugs
  Congress is considering misguided legislation that would allow the government to fix prescription drug prices for seniors.
• January 11 | By Nathaniel Ward
  The House was wrong to hike the minimum wage
  The Associated Press repeated a liberal distortion yesterday when reporting on the successful liberal efforts to ram a 38-percent hike in the minimum wage through the House of Representatives.
• January 11 | By Nathaniel Ward
  Confronting radical Islam
  Radical Islam “has youth and will, and the Western world for the most part has neither. We’re showing classic signs of civilizational exhaustion,” author Mark Steyn said yesterday at The Heritage Foundation.
• January 11 | By Nathaniel Ward
  The entitlement crunch
  A slideshow that accompanied Stuart Butler's talk on entitlement spending is a sobering of the urgency of reform.
• January 9 | By Nathaniel Ward
  Liberals propose tax hikes
  Heritage experts point out the real problems with the liberal tax-hike agenda.
• January 9 | By Nathaniel Ward
  What liberals don’t tell you about taxes
  Liberals have spent a lot of time explaining how and why they’re going to raise taxes—but what they don’t tell you is that taxes are going to go up anyway.
• January 9 | By Nathaniel Ward
  Doing education right
  Speaking yesterday at The Heritage Foundation, Sens. John Cornyn (R-TX) and Jim DeMint (R-SC) urged Congress to rethink education policy and consider instead a return to federalism and local control.
• January 4 | By Nathaniel Ward
  The liberals’ 100-hour agenda
  While the Conrgessional agenda may make for good politics, many of the proposals are far from good policy.
• January 4 | By Nathaniel Ward
  Tackling other issues
  Heritage takes a look at education, government controls on the economy, slurs against the troops and religion and family.