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opinion
Japan Augments Alliance Capabilities, but More Needs to Be Done
Since returning as prime minister of Japan in 2012, Shinzo Abe has fulfilled long-standing promises to develop new military capabilities and expand its security role in the region and globally. Abe has enacted an impressive list of national security initiatives and has overseen a moderate increase in the country’s defense budget. Japan took a step… -
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Teachers Union Demands Kids Share Bathrooms With Transgender Educators
MADISON, Wis.—As the Madison Metropolitan School District faces a lawsuit over its policy on student gender identity, it is being accused of discriminating against transgender teachers in the bathroom. On Madison Teachers Inc. fired out a press release last Tuesday asserting it supports equal restroom access for the school district’s students and staff. The union doesn’t like… -
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Study Shows the Result of Left-Wing Conformity on College Campuses
Are our institutions of higher education little more than left-wing indoctrination centers? A recently released study found that, whether that’s generally true or not, the perception that they are indoctrinating students is fairly universal at one of the nation’s large, public universities. A team of professors at the University of North Carolina conducted research on… -
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Bills Would Deny Federal Funds to Sanctuary States for Illegal Aliens
With a growing number of states declaring themselves sanctuaries for illegal immigrants, Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., and Rep. Ken Buck, R-Colo., are responding with legislation to impose penalties on states that refuse to cooperate with federal immigration enforcement. Currently, 15 states and the District of Columbia allow residents to obtain driver’s licenses without proof of… -
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Liberals Oppose Equal Status for Faith-Based Organizations
Sens. Patty Murray, D-Wash., and Ron Wyden, D-Ore., must really miss the days of Barack Obama, when faith-based groups were treated like second-class citizens when it came to government programs. Every time a member of President Donald Trump’s team rolls back a rule and levels the playing field, the two Northwest Democrats kick and scream…. -
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Review of School-Based Sex Ed Finds Increases in Sexual Activity
A global research review of school-based comprehensive sex education programs found very little effectiveness from these programs and instead found increased sexual activity. The review, conducted by the Institute for Research & Evaluation and published in the Institute of Law and Medicine in January, examined 60 studies of 40 school-based comprehensive sex education programs in… -
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12 Times Gun Owners Defended Themselves and Others
Many lawmakers around the country welcomed in the new year by pursuing legislation that would severely curtail the right of law-abiding citizens to keep and bear arms. Meanwhile, law-abiding citizens began 2020 just as they ended 2019—by showing repeatedly just how instrumental that right is to the security of a free state. According to almost… -
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Massachusetts City Will Allow Illegal Aliens to Drive Without a License
City councilors in Cambridge, Massachusetts, voted to prohibit police officers from arresting illegal aliens if they are caught operating a vehicle without a license. Under a newly passed city ordinance in Cambridge, residents are still legally required to carry a driver’s license if they are operating a vehicle, but local law enforcement has been ordered… -
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Remembering the ‘Miracle on Ice’ 40 Years Later
Saturday marks the 40th anniversary of the famous “Miracle on Ice” hockey game, when the Americans beat the Russians at the Olympics—despite the fact that the Russians were considered a far superior team. Today, our Heritage Foundation colleagues Philip Reynolds and Laura Falcon join Jarrett Stepman to remember that wonderful game. We also cover these… -
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Iran’s Sham Parliamentary Elections Aim to Strengthen Hard-Liners’ Hand
Iran is preparing for another set of rigged parliamentary elections Friday. Once again, Iran’s clerical regime has vetoed the candidacies of almost half of the 14,000 would-be office-seekers who registered to run for one of the 290 seats. The Guardian Council, which must approve candidates, disqualified a record number of them, including a majority of… -
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Baseball’s Failure to Exact Price for Cheating Could Destroy the Game
Nothing creates a moral hazard more than exposing corruption and yet failing to punish those responsible. That’s what happened in the aftermath of the financial crisis of 2008, and that’s what’s happening in baseball today. The rationale for failing to punish Wall Street corruption in 2008 was that big banks were “too big to fail”… -
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Ivanka Trump’s Global Development and Prosperity Initiative Empowers Women
Implementing free-market policies that advance economic freedom is the key to empowering women. Elaborating on that critical linkage, the president’s Council of Economic Advisers recently published a report, “The W-GDP Index: Empowering Women’s Economic Activity Through Addressing Legal Barriers.” The W-GDP Index quantifies prior legal reforms in the five crucial areas that affect women’s “full… -
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San Francisco Sheriff Says His Department Won’t Cooperate With ICE
Law enforcement in San Francisco will no longer be cooperating with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, per a directive by San Francisco’s newly elected sheriff. Paul Miyamoto, who was elected to be the top law enforcer in San Francisco in November 2019, declared to a local media outlet Tuesday that his department will not help with… -
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Trump’s War on Sanctuary Cities Is About More Than Politics
It’s about to get real for America’s so-called sanctuary cities, local governments that refuse to cooperate with those who enforce federal immigration laws. The Trump administration is deploying 100 tactical Border Patrol officers to help Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials take illegal immigrants in those cities into custody. The move should put to rest any… -
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Woman Says After Her Baby Survived Abortion, Medical Staff Gave Him No Treatment
Her abortion was supposed to be “100% effective.” That’s what doctors told Sofia Khan when she found out her unborn son had spina bifida. “We were heartbroken,” she told the U.K.’s Sun, “but we made the decision to terminate. We felt it was best for the baby, but even so, I had moments of doubt and… -
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Fracking Ban Would Hurt Environment
If a policymaker proposed banning cars and trucks or reducing the speed limit to 5 mph to reduce traffic fatalities, he or she would be laughed off the stage. Such a policy ignores the benefits of driving and disregards how people accept risk and trade-offs in their lives. So why should we treat efforts to… -
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Parents Ask Court to Stop Schools From Helping Children Make Gender Transitions
A group of Wisconsin parents is asking a state court to halt a public school district’s policy that they say instructs teachers to assist and encourage children in adopting transgender identities without notifying—and possibly while deceiving—parents. The lawsuit is being brought by 14 parents, representing eight families, who allege the Madison Metropolitan School District’s policy… -
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China’s Government Is Like Something Out of ‘1984’
The Chinese communist government increasingly poses an existential threat not just to its own 1.4 billion citizens but to the world at large. China is currently in a dangerously chaotic state. And why not, when a premodern authoritarian society leaps wildly into the brave new world of high-tech science in a single generation? The Chinese… -
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What You Need to Know About Roger Stone’s Trial and Sentencing
What has Roger Stone been convicted of? Are President Donald Trump’s tweets about his sentence inappropriate? Have past presidents ever gotten involved in proposed sentences? Was the jury for Stone biased? John Malcolm, a senior legal fellow at The Heritage Foundation, joins the show to explain it all. Read the lightly edited transcript, posted below,… -
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Problematic Women: Mandatory Vasectomies, and ‘Sesame Street’ Promotes Gender Confusion
Billy Porter recently shot “Sesame Street” wearing a dress, and while Big Bird and Elmo might be fine with it, “Problematic Women” and parents all over America have another opinion. Also up on today’s “Problematic Women,” three female high school athletes are suing the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference over a policy that allows biological males…