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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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
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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
EducationCommentary
Virginia is a very purple state, evenly divided between conservatives and liberals, but its universities are not equally balanced ideologically. A simple way to gauge… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
A conservative president or Congress that does not defund public broadcasting does not understand what the moment requires—or, in the parlance of the day, they don’t know… Read More
EducationCommentary
Are conservatives plotting to subvert American institutions? This bold assertion was tucked inside the op-ed that Claudine Gay published in The New York Times the day after she stepped down as Harvard University’s… Read More
Education Commentary
So far, almost all the critical focus on how university leaders have manifestly failed to address rampant antisemitism on their campuses has been aimed at selective, private… Read More
EducationCommentary
The presidents of Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania, and MIT appeared before a House committee last Tuesday to answer for their shameful inaction in the face of… Read More
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Trouble is brewing in the deep-blue state of Maryland, where Democratic state senators are discovering that—gasp!—an “immigrant advocacy” group they have coddled for decades is really full… Read More
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The Spanish-language network Univision interviewed former President Donald Trump this month and allowed him to respond to questions without interruption or personal attacks. It was like every… Read More
EducationCommentary
Americans are finally catching on that the oppressor-oppressed narrative being taught in our schools and universities is not a conspiracy theory disseminated by conservatives. It’s real. Jewish… Read More
SocietyCommentary
The Census Bureau is asking Congress for $10 million to figure out how best to promote the fiction that sex is assigned at birth, rather than the scientific fact… Read More
EducationCommentary
Students from across the U.S. and Europe have taken to the streets to defend the indefensible or “contextualize” that which no context can justify; that… Read More
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The 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution provides all Americans with “the equal protection of the laws.” But California’s Gov. Gavin Newsom seems to think… Read More
SecurityCommentary
GUATEMALA CITY—Hamas’ harrowing terrorist attacks in Israel last weekend made it all the clearer to Americans that President Joe Biden’s opening of our borders has put the United… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
The growing controversy over the Smithsonian Institution’s planned National Museum of the American Latino is making one thing perfectly clear: The once-august organization cannot now be trusted… Read More
EducationCommentary
The mission of a university is to discover truth and transmit that essential knowledge to future generations. That has been achieved by what we call… Read More
EducationCommentary
Does having a bevy of officers who push race, sex, and LGBT victim/oppressor theories on university students enhance or detract from their learning? This is… Read More
EducationCommentary
The weaponization of the federal government against President Joe Biden’s political opponents and anyone fighting “woke” orthodoxy is going at such dizzying speed that it’s hard… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
The sudden appearance of communist apparatchik Angela Davis in the middle of former President Donald Trump’s prosecution saga in Atlanta is a testament not just to her stunning political… Read More
InternationalCommentary
You may never have heard of the Foro de São Paulo, since Western media tend to ignore it, but it’s the world’s largest and most impactful… Read More
SocietyCommentary
That leftists have accomplished a very successful march through the institutions is a fact of life. But how did they achieve it? The ongoing saga… Read More
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A congressional debate over funding a new Smithsonian American Latino Museum carried on for most of Wednesday afternoon, sometimes passionately, epitomizing a much larger national… Read More
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Next week marks a decade since Black Lives Matter began disrupting our lives. The media doesn’t mention the group much anymore, mainly to avoid embarrassing… Read More
By eliminating racial preferences in university admissions, the Supreme Court has finally exorcised a baleful spectrum that has haunted the country for over half a century. We should… Read More
EducationCommentary
The Biden administration is making clear once again whom it fears the most. It is not China, Russia, or, needless to say, Republicans. No. Enemy No. 1 is America’s mothers… Read More
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The bankruptcy of the Left’s diversity, equity, and inclusion ideology, or DEI, was put on full display this week in the House of Representatives. Republicans not only showed rare… Read More
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This time, they’re coming after baseball. Baseball. Get it? The national pastime. The inner sanctum of homespun goodness. Your last refuge from the crazy. The… Read More
