What Malala’s Story Tells Americans
Malala Yousafzai was 11 years old when she inadvertently became the voice for millions of Muslim girls in Pakistan and Afghanistan who want to attend school. In a moving 2009 New York Times video and...
View ArticleWATCH: Lunch with Heritage Google Hangout on the “War on Women”
Our weekly “Lunch with Heritage” chats have grown over the past two years into a vibrant discussion of policy issues. Today we’re introducing a new way for you to engage with us by making them Google...
View ArticleTop 10 Heritage Images of 2012
Instagram sold for $1 billion in April, remarkable news for a company that wasn’t even around two years earlier. Meanwhile, sites like Pinterest and Tumblr blossomed. What do they have in common?...
View ArticleTop 10 Heritage Charts of 2012
If you’ve read our work, you probably know we love charts. Our signature products — the Index of Economic Freedom and Federal Budget in Pictures — include some amazing informational graphics. We also...
View ArticleMarriage Makes Fiscal Sense
Photo credit: Newscom National Marriage Week (February 7–14) is drawing attention to the link between the collapse of marriage and child poverty—and its cost to America. The statistics are sobering: In...
View ArticlePenalizing Religious Belief: No Bed of Roses
Lannis Waters/ZUMA Press/Newscom A Washington state florist is facing a lawsuit by the state’s attorney general because she desires to conduct her business in accord with the principles of her faith....
View ArticleObama Vows Support for Planned Parenthood
Jewel Samad/AFP/Getty Images President Obama became the first sitting President to address Planned Parenthood this week, speaking to roughly a thousand supporters at the organization’s national...
View ArticleFamily Fact of the Week: Thankful for Religious Freedom on National Day of...
Don Hammond/Design Pics/Newscom Millions of people of faith in America will participate today in the 62nd annual National Day of Prayer. Although the National Day of Prayer was not established by...
View ArticleFamily Fact of the Week: Family and Religious Practice
Newscom Religious practice and the family are intricately intertwined, according to Mary Eberstadt, a fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center. Eberstadt studied the relationship between family...
View ArticleDeMint: Do Traditional Marriage Supporters Deserve to Be Treated with Dignity?
Some people can’t seem to understand why anyone would support marriage as the union of a man and a woman. Indeed, Justice Anthony Kennedy argued last week that the only reason Congress had for passing...
View ArticleDoes Your Religion Define How You Think About Economics?
Newscom The authors of a new Brookings Institution survey believe the American Dream is dead—or at least in trouble. And who’s to blame? Religious conservatives. Progressives, on the other hand, want...
View ArticleIf ‘Politics Is Downstream From Culture,’ the Right Must Jump in to Redirect...
Time and time again, Democratic and Republican politicians shout that there’s an ideological battle for the heart and soul of the nation and hope to win the trust and support of disenchanted voters....
View ArticleAmerica’s Pop Culture Is Stagnating. Here’s Why That’s a Problem.
Americans seem to be stuck in a cultural rut. In 1981, a mere 16% of the most popular movies in the country were sequels, spinoffs, or remakes of other films. In 2019, that number shot up to 80%. Just...
View ArticlePublic Libraries Screw Up Black History Month
Another year, another Black History Month that ignored black American heroes in favor of stirring up racial division. Public libraries in Indianapolis; Chicago; New York City; Los Angeles; Seattle;...
View ArticleThe Left Never Wages Divisive ‘Culture Wars’? Oh, Really.
Everyone who normally or occasionally votes Republican knows that any candidate the GOP chooses as the 2024 nominee for president is going to be treated by the media as either an extremist or as...
View Article‘Rising With Courage and Vigor’: Kevin Roberts Lays Out Plan to Win Culture War
OXON HILL, Md.—The 2024 presidential election may be conservatives’ last chance to save America, Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts said Thursday. Roberts opened The Heritage Foundation’s...
View ArticleHeritage Panel Lays Out Plan to Retake America’s Cultural Institutions
“You have to think about politics as if it was a fight in a war. And in these situations where I’m doing this strategic thinking, Heritage is the leading institution.” That’s what Balázs Orbán, the...
View Article‘We Want You to Be a Hero’: Sen. Hawley Warns How Daniel Penny’s Fate Could...
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—The rush by the Left to vilify former Marine Daniel Penny before Americans have all the facts of his case could have a negative effect on American males’ willingness to be...
View ArticleTarget Gets Burned by ‘Culture War’ Fire, but Wall Street Journal Blames Right
Some might claim that Rupert Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal is part of his “right-wing media machine,” but not when it comes to the news pages. The front page on May 25 included an article headlined...
View ArticleLesson of ‘Try That in a Small Town’ Brouhaha: Don’t Capitulate to Left’s...
The best way to deal with cultural revolutionaries insistent on canceling history, art, statues, or people is not to engage in a dialogue or to apologize, but to ignore their demands and tell them to...
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