SLIDESHOW: Obamacare’s Impact—in Pictures
As health care becomes an increasingly debated topic, it is critically important for every American to understand the impact of Obamacare. The Heritage Foundation’s newly… Read More
What’s Driving High Gas Prices in California?
California’s nation-high gas prices are receiving national attention. The price of $4.67 per gallon, an increase of about 50 cents in the past week, is… Read More
Organizing for America Assists Voter Fraud
In a new undercover video sting, James O’Keefe has captured a staffer for Organizing for America, which was established in 2009 to support the Obama… Read More
Medicare and Seniors: Answering the $6,400 Question
Opponents to Medicare reform have been making plenty of erroneous claims about Medicare premium support lately, one of the worst being that Representative Paul Ryan’s… Read More
Big Bird vs. Budget Cuts That Matter
America is headed toward a fiscal cliff, the U.S. military is being gutted by budget cuts, and the President has been focused on…Big Bird. After… Read More
Changing the Definition of “All of the Above” Energy Policy
The Heritage Foundation has been making the case against energy subsidies for years. This research eventually led to a letter written in March 2011 by… Read More
Ethical Stem-Cell Researcher Wins Nobel Prize for Medicine
On March 9, 2009, President Obama signed an executive order spending federal dollars—for the first time ever—on embryo-destructive stem-cell research. Yesterday, Dr. Shinya Yamanaka, the… Read More
Boehner Is Right: Tell the Wall Street Moguls “No Tax Hikes”
Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives John Boehner (R-OH) has made clear that he opposes tax hikes on Americans. Tax hikes would slow the… Read More
VIDEO: The White House’s Disinformation Campaign on Libya
After American diplomatic facilities in Libya came under sustained assault by militia forces, the Obama administration – including the president and Secretary of State themselves… Read More
Top 5 Obamacare Promises to Remember
Remember when former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D–CA) told the American people that “we have to pass the [health care] bill so that… Read More
An Incriminating Timeline: Obama Administration and Libya (VIDEO)
The latest incriminating information on the U.S. consulate attack in Benghazi, Libya indicates that the State Department turned down a request for additional security from… Read More
Chart of the Week: Poor, Middle Class Hit by Obamacare Mandate Tax
With campaign season in full tilt, Americans are being inundated with rhetoric regarding the various tax proposals touted by President Obama and Governor Romney. Given… Read More
Congressional Budget Office Confirms FY 2012 Deficit Exceeds $1 Trillion
Fiscal year 2012 concluded with a $1.1 trillion deficit, according to the Congressional Budget Office’s monthly budget review released today. It marks the fourth year… Read More
The Odd September Unemployment Rate: When Good Surveys Produce False Results
What’s behind the seemingly sudden drop in the unemployment rate? While the economy stumbles along, no one would expect a sudden jump in employment. Job… Read More
Will the Obama Administration Attack Libya Before the Foreign Policy Debate?
Will the United States military strike targets in Libya before the October 22 presidential debate, which, coincidentally, will focus on foreign policy and national security?… Read More
First Presidential Debate 2012: Top 10 True/False Quiz
During last night’s presidential debate, claims were flying fast and furious. Some of these claims were true, others false. Here are the top 10—see which… Read More
Debate 2012: Do We Need More Teachers?
“Governor [Mitt] Romney doesn’t think we need more teachers,” President Obama said last night. “I do.” The President’s confidence that “we need more teachers” to… Read More
Spending “War Savings” Is Still a Budget Gimmick
During the first presidential debate, President Obama reiterated a policy proposal that barely holds water. His proposal to use so-called war savings from the troop… Read More
Debate 2012: Obama Once Again Misleads on Jobs Numbers
During his first answer of tonight’s presidential debate, President Obama repeated a claim regarding employment numbers that, while true, makes his own record on jobs… Read More
Debate Prep: Brush Up on Domestic Policy
ECONOMY A Non-Recovery Recovery The August report shows that the labor market is continuing its non-recovery. Average job growth for 2012 is worse than average… Read More
Heritage Expert Confounds the “Fact Checkers” on Welfare Reform
“Obama’s Palace Guard,” Mark Hemingway’s Weekly Standard cover story exposing fact-checkers for willful complicity in the gutting of welfare reform, is a must read for… Read More
Oversight Committee Seeks Answers About Libya Security Lapse
In a letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee is seeking answers from the State Department about its… Read More
Global Verdict on Obama’s Crumbling Foreign Policy
Recent survey results show that the Obama Administration’s foreign policy has been unsuccessful in the promotion of America and in improving hostile relationships, especially in… Read More
Voter ID: Court Upholds Pennsylvania Law
A Pennsylvania trial court upheld the state’s new voter ID law today but ordered that voters without ID would still be able to vote in… Read More
CHART: How Much Money Should Go to National Security?
“It’s a ship without sailors. It’s a brigade without bullets. It’s an air wing without enough trained pilots. It’s a paper tiger,” said Secretary of… Read More
What Does the Obama Administration Have Against Cheap Vegetables?
The Obama Administration’s Commerce Department recently took a preliminary position in favor of ending a 16-year-old trade agreement governing tomatoes imported from Mexico. The Florida… Read More
10 Ways the Obama Administration Is Hurting America’s Energy Economy
One of the few bright spots over the past few years in America’s economy has been energy production, but this has occurred largely in spite… Read More
Fast & Furious: Univision Continuing to Ask the Tough Questions
On the heels of staging a successful presidential forum, Univision, the largest Spanish-language network in the U.S., has uncovered more information on the failed Operation… Read More
Five Questions for Education Secretary Arne Duncan
On Tuesday morning, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan will address the National Press Club. Here are five questions we’d like him to answer: You… Read More
VIDEO: The Future Is Brighter With School Choice
This weekend’s release of “Won’t Back Down” has helped shine the spotlight on school choice. Heritage would like to keep it there, which is why… Read More
