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Heritage Explains
The Heritage Foundation's weekly explainer of a single policy issue in the news.
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- A Tough Night for Conservatives: Now What? | Steve Chartan
Heritage co-founder Dr. Ed Feulner had a well-known saying. “In Washington, there are no permanent victories or permanent defeats.” But victories and defeats there are, and President Trump and the…
- BONUS | Can American Foster Care Be Fixed? | Alex Adams
Washington has a really bad habit of mistaking paperwork for progress. In some places, like the billion forms needed to get a driver's license, this is simply annoying. But in programs meant to help…
- How Did We Get Truck Drivers Who Can’t Speak English? | Lora Ries
Every day, my wife takes our two young boys to their activities a few miles from our house in the family car. As she drives, she shares the road with gargantuan 40-ton trucks. We assume the people…
- BONUS | How Can We Succeed Where USAID Failed? | Ben Black
You'd be forgiven if you'd never heard of the US International Development Finance Corporation. Even by Washington standards, DFC sounds like an agency specifically designed to make your eyes glaze…
- Is France a Warning for the West? | Laura LaCombe
Last week, Heritage Explains spoke with Director of the Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom at The Heritage Foundation, Nile Gardiner, about the riots rocking France. In the few days since our…
- Why is France on Fire? | Nile Gardiner
It’s a day ending in Y in France, which means rioting. Following in the spirit of 1789, the French are burning buildings, fighting the police, and overall behaving very poorly. This time, the…
- Are We Winning the War on Fraud? | Dan Kowalski
Washington has spent decades proving the bigger government gets, the more money it wastes and the less accountable it becomes. The infamous Minnesota “learing centers,” incident showed how craven…
- Should We be Friends With China? | Jeff Smith
For the better part of a decade, China has played the role of America’s greatest long-term strategic competitor. American foreign politicos have long advised a pivot to Asia as Washington slaps…
- Is AI Going to Wipe Out Humanity? | Jay Richards
I was eight years old when my family got our first home computer. I remember this hulking grey Dell computer taking up massive amounts of space on the desk, and I remember thinking to myself how…
- How Do We Fix America's Elections? | Ken Cuccinelli
As stories about non-citizen voting and voter fraud become disturbingly common, Americans are beginning to lack confidence in our elections. The debate over the elections process has taken on a…
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