Richard Tucker writes about American political thought as senior writer in The Heritage Foundation’s B. Kenneth Simon Center for Principles and Politics.
View all authors
The modern Olympiad is a made-for-TV spectacle. Nobody doubts that from the ice rink to the halfpipe to the ski jump, the Sochi Olympics will… Read More
President Obama’s second term is off to a rocky start. The Congressional Budget Office says his signature Obamacare legislation will cost millions their employer-provided health… Read More
Why doesn’t the Obama administration make government employees take responsibility for their mistakes? Consider Obamacare. You may recall its Web site provided inaccurate information, exposed… Read More
Where are the dads? Take the January issue of Washington Family magazine, which features a photo of a mother and daughter getting ready to ski… Read More
“Here sir, the people govern,” Alexander Hamilton told the New York state ratifying convention in 1788. It’s a good thing he wasn’t talking about the… Read More
All good things must come to an end, the saying goes. But it remains to be seen whether that applies to the Martin Luther… Read More
Across the country today, speakers will honor the legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. They will likely quote the resounding “I Have a Dream” speech… Read More
News
Do we really need a list of the rights Americans enjoy? That was the question the Founders debated before the Bill of Rights was ratified… Read More
Health CareNews
During the occasional periods when the President isn’t altering Obamacare—unconstitutionally through executive orders—progressives like to insist that the law is “settled” and “here to stay.”… Read More
Black Friday has come and gone in the United States. As you’re surely aware, millions of shoppers are spent the day after Thanksgiving pouring into… Read More
News
When lawmakers were debating how to end the federal government shutdown and whether they should authorize Washington to borrow even more money by raising the… Read More
This Halloween, millions of Americans will, as every year, be handing out candy. But this year, the real trick could be finding treats made in… Read More
Where you live matters—in more than one way. As Time magazine reports, some states are known for being laid back, while others are more intense…. Read More
Lieutenant Colonels Peter Fromm, Douglas Pryer, and Kevin Cutright manage to make a negative out of a positive. In the latest issue of Military Review,… Read More
Economy News
“Neither a borrower nor a lender be,” wrote William Shakespeare in Hamlet. As the Founders were exceptionally well read men, they surely knew the reference…. Read More
News
Look how far Progressivism has come: As he prepared to lead the United States into World War I (less than a year after being re-elected… Read More
As the United States considered intervention in Syria recently, a number of presidents and policy experts weighed in. Not simply on whether intervention would be… Read More
News
It would be virtually impossible to market a product in the United States today unless you could call it “sustainable.” We want sustainable farming, sustainable… Read More
Today, the Constitution turns 226 years old. Let’s not forget it states that the President “shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed.” The… Read More
News
It’s good that Russian President Vladimir Putin and American President Barack Obama have found something they can agree on. Unfortunately, they’re both wrong. Neither Putin… Read More
In the United States, dreams have a funny way of becoming reality. That’s what makes the American dream so powerful. It’s renewed, and usually achieved,… Read More
No one knows how much ethanol Americans would use if the fuel didn’t receive preferential treatment. Would we use any at all? We do know… Read More
All the political action this month will take place outside Washington, D.C. And that’s as it should be. In a healthy republic, lawmakers hear from… Read More
Cartoon star Bullwinkle the Moose had a running gag in which he tried to pull a rabbit out of a hat and ended up facing… Read More
Regular elections are a critical feature of American democracy. If you don’t like the way your town, state, or federal government is headed, you know… Read More
Detroit is a showcase for the liberal agenda — and now it is bankrupt. More than 50 years of control by big-government liberals and union… Read More
Benjamin Franklin would have been an excellent blogger. And he would have enjoyed using Twitter. He was the sharpest communicator of his time, so profound… Read More
Supreme Court decisions are crucial, but they are not the final word. It’s our duty as American citizens to keep pushing back, through all three… Read More
News
The only thing that’s really surprising is that it took so long. Lawmakers recently unveiled a statue of Frederick Douglass in the Emancipation Hall of… Read More
News
Economists often point to the “wisdom of crowds”—the idea that a group of people is likely to make better decisions that an individual will. Then… Read More
