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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Mexico City—“Now,” Elon Musk responded this week on the social media site he bought two years ago and renamed X. What was this an answer… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
Wednesday’s House DOGE Subcommittee hearing on bias at NPR and PBS got heated at times, especially for NPR CEO Katherine Maher, whom Republican members repeatedly… Read More
SocietyCommentary
If you’re too young to remember the tearing down of the Berlin Wall or even to realize why it mattered, Washington, D.C., may offer you something that also… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
The second Trump administration is engaged in the first real transfer of power since 1933. What is taking place is an attempt at national transformation, and that… Read More
SocietyCommentary
President Donald Trump has certainly undertaken a systematic demolition of former President Joe Biden’s diversity, equity, and inclusion regime since returning to the Oval Office. But Trump… Read More
SocietyCommentary
On his first day back in office, President Donald Trump decisively dismantled the Biden administration’s wasteful and immoral “diversity, equity, and inclusion” initiatives. An easy… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
Federal diversity, equity, and inclusion hires had to know what was coming when President Donald Trump began his historic second term on Monday by rescinding… Read More
SocietyCommentary
With conservatives back in power, public media is getting back to what it really excels at. No, not objective, impartial reporting. If NPR and PBS… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
Sometimes, ostensibly discrete global events come into focus and form a unified pattern. When that happens, the world suddenly starts making sense. Here are some… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Toward the end of “A Complete Unknown,” a good biopic about Bob Dylan that opened on Christmas, there is a key scene in which Dylan manager Albert Grossman barks… Read More
SecurityCommentary
Is the Northern Virginia campus of George Mason University cultivating a nest of anti-Israel and antisemitic terrorist supporters a half-hour’s drive from the nation’s capital?… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Any day now, President-elect Donald Trump will nominate a new director of the U.S. Census Bureau, replacing President Joe Biden’s man, Robert L. Santos. Whoever Trump’s nominee… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Diversity, equity, and inclusion has made society meaner—mean enough to accept Hitlerian terms when describing out-groups and seeking to exact revenge on perceived oppressors. This was all… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
The 2024 presidential election shattered two monopolies the Left had counted on for decades. One was the lock it had over that section of Americans labeled as… Read More
There were many reasons that President-elect Donald Trump won in such a resounding victory this week: inflation, the bewildering open border policy, the Afghanistan withdrawal humiliation, the world on fire,… Read More
Education Commentary
With just days before one of the most contentious elections of our lifetime, George Mason University, a Virginia school funded by taxpayers, sent all students… Read More
EducationCommentary
The head of diversity, equity, and inclusion at the University of Michigan is incensed with The New York Times and with The Heritage Foundation (something that rarely… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
Leftists are becoming increasingly totalitarian in their antipathy for freedom of speech. It’s an obstacle to their desire for power, so it must be crushed. An… Read More
EducationCommentary
The top practitioners of critical race theory just held a weeklong “summer school” in Nashville, Tennessee, to strategize, assess the movement, and debate how best to proselytize… Read More
SecurityCommentary
As people grow increasingly wary of dangers around them, a split-screen has again opened up on how the Left and Right approach the threat of… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
Framed on a wall in my office is a copy of my first opinion column, published by The Dallas Morning News on Oct. 11, 1987. Until then,… Read More
SecurityCommentary
“Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants,” Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis famously said in 1913. Indeed, our exposure of the network of… Read More
SocietyCommentary
The struggle against ideologies that seek to divide America advances in fits and starts. This month, we saw great progress in the introduction of a… Read More
SocietyCommentary
“Cui bono?” asked the ancients, whose wisdom we’d be foolish to toss aside. For by answering the question “Who benefits?” we may ascertain who is… Read More
LawCommentary
If the FBI has time to spare after harassing mothers at school board meetings, it may want to look into the groups participating in, and funding, the… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Presidents used to appoint diplomats to defend the interests of the United States and the public against foreign adversaries. That looks now like a gauzy… Read More
SocietyCommentary
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—What has happened to America? How did it become a land where teachers tell students they may have been born in… Read More
InternationalCommentary
The coddling of Brazil’s increasingly dictatorial president, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, by the Biden administration and its allies in Congress has gone from baffling… Read More
InternationalCommentary
Juan Gonzalez, who led the Biden administration’s curious policy of embracing anti-U.S. Marxist leaders in Latin America while making enemies of their pro-Western counterparts, has resigned his post as… Read More
InternationalCommentary
Javier Milei is the president of one country, Argentina, which makes him accountable to the world’s 46 million Argentines. But the global Left knows that… Read More
