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Mattel Releases Gender-Neutral Barbies in Efforts to Be ‘More Inclusive’
The company that created Barbie launched a new line of gender-neutral Barbie dolls released in Walmart and Target stores Wednesday. Mattel Creatable World released a new line of Barbie dolls in efforts to create “more inclusive” dolls, available online at Target, Walmart, and Amazon, according to Time magazine. The dolls are designed to meet the needs of children… -
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3 Reasons It’s Tough to Defend Against Drones and Cruise Missiles
There’s a lot of hand-wringing going on in defense circles across the globe over the increasing challenge of armed drones and cruise missiles, especially after the strike on Saudi oil facilities and oil fields earlier this month. The fact is that defending against these modern weapon systems can be tough—and the failure to be able… -
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Problematic Women: Ladies, Know Your Worth
This week on “Problematic Women” we talk to Heritage Foundation fellow and working mother of six Rachel Greszler about the so-called gender wage gap and the celebrities who continue to promote the debunked idea. Rachel tells how women can fight for ourselves in the workplace and the ways the free market is the greatest equalizer…. -
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Podcast: Gender-Neutral Dolls Are Coming
A major doll company just released a new line of gender-neutral dolls. What does that mean for our culture? We discuss. Plus: We feature a segment from our “Problematic Women” podcast in which Lauren Evans interviews Heritage Foundation labor expert Rachel Greszler. Evans and Greszler unpack the myth of the wage gap and how it’s… -
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The Death of American Citizenship
The American Founders institutionalized the best of a long Western tradition of representative government with the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights. These contracts outlined the rare privileges and responsibilities of new American citizens. Yet the concept of citizenship is being assaulted on the premodern side by the legal blending of mere residency with citizenship…. -
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Trump Slams Democrats for Announcing Impeachment Inquiry During His UN Talks
President Donald Trump used a press conference at the United Nations to strike back Wednesday at House Democrats who are moving forward on an impeachment inquiry. “The witch hunt continues. But they’re getting hit hard on this witch hunt,” Trump told reporters. The president spoke hours after the White House released an official transcript of… -
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How the Impeachment Process Works
The announcement Tuesday by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi that the House “is moving forward with an official impeachment inquiry” against President Donald Trump because she believes his actions “have seriously violated the Constitution” kicks off a complex and enormously consequential process. But what exactly is impeachment? And how hard would it be to impeach the president and… -
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Why Russia’s War Against Ukraine Matters to America
KYIV, Ukraine—You can’t fake courage in a trench war. The thing is, there’s no escaping the danger. You could die just as easily while walking to the toilet as you could while holding the line under artillery fire. You never know when the shelling will start, or when a sniper has you in his sights. … -
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House Democrats Target Tax-Exempt Status of ‘Hate Groups’ as Defined by Left
Despite the recent troubles facing the Southern Poverty Law Center, House Democrats are considering stripping tax-exempt status from organizations labeled as “hate groups” by the liberal organization. Earlier this year, top SPLC leadership resigned after allegations that they turned a blind eye to sexual harassment and racial discrimination within the organization. Nevertheless, some Democrat lawmakers… -
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How the Navy’s Maintenance Shortfall Is Keeping an Aircraft Carrier in Port
A U.S. carrier strike group recently deployed. But it did so without a key component—the carrier itself. Due to electrical maintenance, the USS Harry S. Truman stayed home, missing its scheduled deployment. That’s significant, because every other carrier strike group—aircraft carriers included—has been fully deployed from the East Coast since 2006. Aircraft carriers are an… -
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6 Key Points From Trump’s Call to Ukraine’s President
A transcript of the July 25 phone call between President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy shows the two leaders did talk during their brief conversation about an investigation involving Joe Biden and his son. Neither man, however, mentioned military aid to Ukraine that might hang in the balance. The White House released the… -
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HHS Secretary Tells UN General Assembly: ‘There Is No International Right to an Abortion’
The U.S. health and human services secretary condemned efforts to provide international access to abortion at a United Nations conference Monday. Secretary Alex Azar spoke Monday morning at the U.N. General Assembly in New York and told the gathered nations abortion is not an international right. Azar also condemned the use of “ambiguous terms and expressions such… -
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Catastrophic Thinking Without Solutions
In July, Adam Grant, organizational psychologist at Wharton Business School, tweeted: “Agendas aren’t driven by problems. They’re driven by solutions. Calling out what’s wrong without proposing ways to make it right is complaining.” This week, complaining was the order of the day. The complaining was largely done by enthusiastic minors, to the raucous applause of… -
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Give Immigration Courts These 2 Tools to Reduce the Backlog
News broke on Sept. 18 that the immigration court backlog now surpasses 1 million cases, nearly doubling in just the past two years. The immigration courts simply cannot handle the caseload, and hiring more immigration judges alone won’t fix the problem. The problem is, immigration judges don’t have the standard judicial tools that all other… -
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Why Giving Pot Pushers Access to Our Banks Is Dangerous
The House of Representatives is about to consider a bill called the Safe Banking Act, which, like many titles of federal laws, is completely misleading. It should be called the “Let’s Pretend Marijuana Is Safe and Give Pot Pushers, Cartels, and Terrorist Organizations Access to Our Banking System” Act. Don’t hold your breath for a… -
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A Mom’s Take on Normalizing Gun Deaths in America
When I snapped the obligatory pictures of my seventh-grader and high school senior on the first day of school this year, it looked like pictures from years past. They were two kiddos grinning and bearing it in another one of Mom’s memory-capturing photo shoots. However, this year their back-to-school gear included “bulletproof” backpacks. As an entrepreneur… -
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Christian Student on Why He’s Suing Chicago Over Free Speech
All they wanted to do was share the gospel message—and they’d been doing it for years in downtown Chicago. But this time, the four Christian college students were shut down by law enforcement. Now, they’re suing the city of Chicago, saying their First Amendment rights to free speech have been violated. One of those students,… -
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At UN, Trump Focuses on 5 Top Foreign Policy Priorities
Those hoping for fireworks up in Turtle Bay for President Donald Trump were disappointed Tuesday morning. No references to Rocket Man. Instead, Trump’s third address to the United Nations was shockingly traditional in tone and presentation. Although the speech, as is the president’s tendency, touted the administration’s economic accomplishments up front, it quickly shifted focus… -
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Bowing to Party Pressure, Pelosi Calls for ‘Official Impeachment Inquiry’ of Trump
Invoking the Founding Fathers, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Tuesday that existing investigations of President Donald Trump would continue “under that umbrella” of an impeachment inquiry. Pelosi, D-Calif., who has long resisted the push by the left wing of her party to impeach the president, was moved by the recent questions surrounding Trump’s admission that… -
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US Politics Threaten to Derail Ukraine’s Peace Talks With Russia
KYIV, Ukraine—Ukraine is at a crossroads. After more than five years of war against Russian forces in its eastern Donbas region, the former Soviet republic is finally inching toward a peace deal with Moscow. Yet a political scandal in the U.S.—in which Ukraine plays a central role—threatens to complicate matters, some Ukrainian experts say. The…