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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Donald Trump came into the presidency promising to drain the swamp, and at least part of his legacy will be assessed on his success on… Read More
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Less than a third of the way into his upcoming book on nationalism, Israeli philosopher and scholar Yoram Hazony warns about the growing censorship constricting… Read More
EducationCommentary
Just in time for the Fourth of July, the Trump administration announced it is rescinding Obama administration policies that directed universities to use racial preferences… Read More
EducationCommentary
In 2015, the nonprofit group Students for Fair Admission filed a lawsuit against Harvard University that alleged Harvard directly discriminates against Asian-American applicants during the… Read More
SocietyCommentary
“Are you an American or not?” It’s a simple question, one that every U.S. census should include, especially when the survey already contains nonsensical and… Read More
SecurityCommentary
If war is the continuation of diplomacy by other means, public diplomacy is a theater where states use ideas instead of ordnance. But in this… Read More
InternationalCommentary
Hungary’s maverick prime minister, Viktor Orban, is once again stirring the pot of goulash. Four years ago, Orban gave his critics ammunition when he said… Read More
SocietyCommentary
President Donald Trump is famously difficult to write speeches for, and his relationship with Mexican-Americans has been strained by comments made, so any speechwriter crafting… Read More
InternationalCommentary
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban won a convincing majority in Sunday’s parliamentary election. Even the day before the election, The Guardian was all too pleased… Read More
InternationalCommentary
Any American who ever questions whether the First Amendment is vital to protect free speech should just cast a glance across the Atlantic. Europeans share… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Americans who are sick of identity politics and yearn for a return to the unifying notion of “e pluribus unum” will cheer the Census Bureau’s… Read More
SocietyCommentary
The issue of fake news is very much in the news, as it were, and President Donald Trump is being compared to Stalin for his… Read More
SecurityCommentary
A charter member of the “Greatest Generation”—that stoic cohort of Americans who faced down the Great Depression and defeated fascism, Japanese imperialism, and communism—left us… Read More
EducationCommentary
Michael Wang stared at the letter in dismay. It marked the sixth Ivy League university he had been rejected by, out of the seven he… Read More
EconomyCommentary
This month marks the half-century of one of President Lyndon Johnson’s “Great Society” programs. It’s not the War on Poverty, Medicaid, or the Voting Rights… Read More
InternationalCommentary
Prime Minister Viktor Orban of Hungary is at his best when defending his nation’s sovereignty against encroachment, be it from the liberal progressivism of George… Read More
InternationalCommentary
In withdrawing personnel from the U.S. Embassy in Cuba, the Trump administration took a limited and reasonable retaliation for attacks on U.S. diplomats in Havana…. Read More
SocietyCommentary
Somewhere in the bowels of the Office of Management and Budget sit two proposals on how to rewrite the 2020 census—and force America further down… Read More
InternationalCommentary
Hungary’s foreign minister came to Washington seeking something from the Trump administration that his government is being denied by the European Union—sympathy for its sovereign… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
Western values, Judeo-Christian at base but also to some degree influenced by Greco-Roman views on philosophy and politics, are under threat from within by a… Read More
InternationalCommentary
For additional proof that the State Department has no business teaming up overseas with the vast network funded by the billionaire George Soros, look no… Read More
InternationalCommentary
The letter sent by Cuba’s main dissident group to President Donald Trump thanking him for his decision to prohibit U.S. trade with the military, security… Read More
InternationalCommentary
If “America First” means anything, it must mean preventing a virulently anti-American criminal enterprise from perpetuating its existence next door and reproducing itself throughout the… Read More
InternationalCommentary
That nature abhors a vacuum is a cliché but also a postulate about the immutable laws of nature. And once again, we’re seeing the unchangeable… Read More
InternationalCommentary
Emmanuel Macron, a 39-year-old former investment banker running for office for the first time in his life, won elections Sunday in a landslide and will… Read More
InternationalCommentary
France held a presidential election Sunday under the looming threat of Islamist terrorism, and winnowed the field to two candidates at opposite ends of what… Read More
SocietyCommentary
There are only 10 days left to comment on one of the most important early challenges in the young Trump administration: proposals to further balkanize… Read More
SecurityCommentary
Foreign aid can help advance U.S. national interests, for example, by promoting our values globally or by demonstrating to the world the goodwill of the… Read More
InternationalCommentary
During the Cold War, the U.S. spent billions trying to keep Western Europe from falling into Russian hands. Some of our best foreign policy minds,… Read More
InternationalCommentary
“The enemy of my enemy is my friend” is a proverb that has long, and apparently mistakenly, been attributed to Bedouins. It’s unfair to them,… Read More
