Mike is the Angeles T. Arredondo E Pluribus Unum Senior Fellow in the Davis Institute for National Security and Foreign Policy at The Heritage Foundation. Read his research.
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The nation will this week partake in a ritual unlike any other in the rest of the world. Americans of all persuasions, races, and creeds… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
Three days before last week’s elections, the once-trenchant “Saturday Night Live” devoted its cold opening skit to poking fun at Zohran Mamdani, now New York mayor-elect, for “smiling so… Read More
InternationalCommentary
In 1965, the guru of the New Left, Herbert Marcuse, penned an essay that neatly brought together both strands of the unitary threat faced today… Read More
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The Democratic Socialists of America just wrapped up a Hajj to their Mecca: Havana, a city so buried in detritus after decades of communism that it’s a wonder why any… Read More
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Venezuela’s regime is coming under increasing pressure from the Trump administration for using the cartels it controls to smuggle drugs into the United States. Last… Read More
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Former President Barack Obama thinks nothing of trying to interfere in the internal politics of democratic U.S. allies in Europe, and in the process, thwarting his country’s… Read More
InternationalCommentary
“The issue is never the issue. The issue is the revolution,” said the late David Horowitz, quoting a 1960s rebel. The Palestinian conflict, the climate, transgenderism, immigration, and abortion are… Read More
EducationCommentary
Until last week, we used to speak metaphorically about United States campuses becoming the main battleground in the culture wars. As the heartrending assassination of Charlie Kirk proves, we have become… Read More
EducationCommentary
It’s back-to-school season, and some teachers have promised that the racist ideas from diversity, equity, and inclusion would not be in their classrooms this year…. Read More
EducationCommentary
Virginia lawmakers have thrown down the gauntlet and challenged President Donald Trump’s war on the use of race at universities. Their action, clearly intended to save George… Read More
SocietyCommentary
One of the Smithsonian museums the White House singled out late last week for its egregious progressive narratives doesn’t even exist yet: the Latino Museum. And because it has… Read More
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The White House last week informed Lonnie Bunch, the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, that it’s putting the museums under review—in other words, adult supervision. The news… Read More
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President Donald Trump is correct in seeking to exclude illegal immigrants from being counted in the census. Census numbers determine the apportionment of congressional seats and spending. The illegal immigrant population… Read More
EducationCommentary
The student giving a tour at an elite American university this summer hit all the right points: what the core and elective courses are, how hard they… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
That people get the government they deserve is a cruel adage, too cruel if you live in dark places where a small minority with guns… Read More
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Promoting revolution never goes out of business, and lately, business is booming. Activists in the revolutionary ecosystem that organize street mayhem are veering sharply from… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
The past month has seen bold advances in President Donald Trump’s crusade to recapture cultural ground that the Left had conquered in recent decades. Whether… Read More
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The Smithsonian Institution’s Board of Regents may have to get used to meetings where accountability is expected. At this week’s much-anticipated one, members yielded to… Read More
SocietyCommentary
When you walk through the Library of Congress in Washington, one inscription reads, “the foundation of every state is the education of its youth,” quoting… Read More
Commentary
President Donald Trump‘s rescission legislation has finally arrived in Congress, where it will have 45 days to be approved by both chambers on a simple majority vote…. Read More
Education Commentary
“It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future,” America’s philosopher laureate Yogi Berra once said. Wise counsel, but it’s difficult to see how Harvard wins… Read More
SecurityCommentary
Elias Rodriguez’s alleged murderous rampage and the fifth anniversary of George Floyd’s death came four days apart, and these two events may not be as different as… Read More
InternationalCommentary
President Donald Trump’s election was greeted in Europe with outright fear by parties of the Left and wary apprehension by the center-right but with open elation by a resurgent… Read More
SocietyCommentary
That “diversity is our strength” is one of those obvious contradictions that people with common sense instantly recognize as hooey. It is poisonous hooey, mind you…. Read More
EnergyInternationalCommentary
VALENCIA, Spain—Two modern ills converged in Europe on Monday, literally one of the darkest days in decades. An ideological obsession with climate fanaticism left countries… Read More
Education Commentary
Elite universities are so determined to fight the Donald Trump administration that they’ve decided to double down on their antisemitism and stick with anti-Israel protesters and ideological rigidity. If they… Read More
SocietyCommentary
President Donald Trump plans to ask Congress to rescind the funds it appropriated for public broadcasting, which is a good start in defunding NPR and PBS. The legislative branch must… Read More
SocietyCommentary
The Left has been rewriting history since the concept of a Left-Right spectrum was introduced during the 1789 French Revolution. Yet somehow, the Left thinks… Read More
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President Donald Trump’s decision to clean house at the Smithsonian Institution is a necessary next step in his ongoing crusade to claw back cultural ground that the Left… Read More
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NPR and PBS used to justify their unjustifiable taxpayer funding by telling people that poor children would be harmed if their educational programming was cut. Then, in 2015,… Read More
