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 people of Cuba stood up on Sunday and took to the streets to demand liberty and an end to 62 years of communist oppression…. Read More
SocietyCommentary
Is your school principal denying that her school makes use of critical race theory when you call to complain about it? If so, it’s likely… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Over the last 10 months, Patrisse Cullors led the main Black Lives Matters group to significant success: assembling a $100 million war chest, getting a… Read More
InternationalCommentary
Israel has become a deep gash for progressives. While the far-left wing falsely accuses the Jewish state of human rights violations, a dwindling, less irrational… Read More
SecurityCommentary
Lt. Col. Matthew Lohmeier was fired this month as commander of a U.S. Space Force unit. His “offense”? Speaking the truth about critical race theory’s… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Americans are right to fight back against the racial fanaticism now invading American classrooms, workplaces, and even the White House. These misguided teachings, accepted as… Read More
EducationCommentary
“Don’t lie to yourself about how much effort you’re putting in,” says Amisha, a student from New Jersey who scored a 1540 on her SAT,… Read More
EducationCommentary
President Joe Biden wants educators to teach students that racism is endemic in America. He and his “woke” allies think students should learn that our… Read More
EducationCommentary
How would you feel if your child came home from school and said her teacher had told her that everything that happens in the world… Read More
SecurityCommentary
Don’t be surprised when China’s leaders talk down to top Biden administration officials, whether at a meeting last month in Alaska or elsewhere, going out… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
Unity is not just an empty slogan; it truly is something all Americans should be striving to achieve. Many Americans still share virtues, such as… Read More
InternationalCommentary
The way President Joe Biden handles U.S. relations with China will be closely watched and judged. In the early going, the president seems to want to stay… Read More
SecurityCommentary
The nauseating invasion of the Capitol on Jan. 6 wasn’t the only time the building has been attacked. There were three previous acts of aggression,… Read More
SecurityCommentary
As law enforcement pursues those responsible for the riot Jan. 6 at the U.S. Capitol, authorities are arresting and charging individuals from extremist groups such… Read More
SocietyCommentary
All Americans should wish President Joe Biden well. To do otherwise would be churlish and self-defeating. It beggars belief, though, that one of his first… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Until Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, recently stood up as the voice of reason, and blocked a museum dedicated to those Americans the government hives off… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Some governing areas fall neatly under easily recognized policy umbrellas. Relations with other countries come under the auspices of “foreign policy,” and when those relations… Read More
EducationCommentary
The Las Vegas marketing slogan “what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas” meant to convey the hope that whatever you did during your stopover in… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Ted Wheeler, the mayor of Portland, Oregon, is discovering the hard way that even virtue signaling has diminishing returns. So, no, prattling on about how… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Noxious Marxist theories that have festered in academia for decades finally burst out of ivy-covered walls in 2020, invading all aspects of American life. It… Read More
SecurityCommentary
The Daily Signal last month revealed links between the Black Lives Matter organizations and the Chinese Progressive Association of San Francisco. My piece went viral—and… Read More
SocietyCommentary
This article is an excerpt from the “2020 Mandate for Leadership: A Clear Vision for the Next Administration.” It looks back at policy decisions made… Read More
SocietyCommentary
The Black Lives Matter organizations that swiftly captured the nation’s attention have expeditiously and quietly been softening their rhetoric and removing the most un-American statements… Read More
SecurityCommentary
The New York Times covered for communists in the Soviet Union in the 1930s, when it denied the genocide in Ukraine. The Times covered again… Read More
SecurityCommentary
Who is funding the clearly organized riots happening throughout the U.S.? It’s a question often asked these days, without many answers. Black Lives Matter has… Read More
InternationalAnalysis
Imagine that far-right demonstrators were laying siege to American cities for months, led by activists explicitly calling for an “ethno-state,” and that one of their… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Highly paid consultants spouting toxic racist concepts meant to transform society, and ignobly masking them as “anti-racism” training, are to be shown the door of… Read More
SocietyCommentary
If this summer’s riots and civil unrest have demonstrated anything, it is that a substantial number of young Americans have been taught to believe their… Read More
LawCommentary
The Trump administration’s Justice Department just took an important step in enforcing the Constitution when it concluded, after a two-year investigation, that Yale University illegally… Read More
SocietyCommentary
The House of Representatives has unanimously approved the creation of another Smithsonian institution, a National Latino Museum. It was one more sign that political leaders… Read More
