The EU’s Nobel Peace Prize: Not Just a Laughing Matter
The news that the European Union—which is in the midst of the most sustained crisis of its history—has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize is… Read More
Small Town Sympathy Shouldn’t Trump Common Sense Trade Policy
Recent negotiations of the Trans-Pacific Partnership have sent representatives of government supported industries, like New Balance shoes, scrambling for political help to maintain their high… Read More
House Committee Launches Document Probe Into DOE, Abound Solar
Bankrupt solar module manufacturer Abound Solar, recipient of a Department of Energy loan guarantee of $400 million, and the subject of an official investigation in… Read More
Libya Security Lapse: The Budget for Embassy Security Is Not Responsible
There has been some back and forth between Republicans and Democrats over funding for security in Libya in the wake of Ambassador Chris Stevens’s death…. Read More
Tyranny of the Majority: Darker Days Ahead for Venezuela
On October 7, Hugo Chavez won re-election as president of Venezuela for another six-year term. While accolades continue to pour in from Russia, Cuba, Bolivia,… Read More
Taxpayer-Backed Green Energy Firms Subpoenaed by Federal Watchdog
The Treasury Department’s top watchdog has opened an investigation into a popular grant program that helped finance a host of green energy projects, according to… Read More
Christopher Columbus: American Icon?
Columbus Day is an unusual American holiday. It doesn’t commemorate a President or a great American statesman. Christopher Columbus found North America, but he didn’t… Read More
The Constitution: Model, Resource, or Outlier?
The United States Constitution is the oldest written constitution still in use. A little more than 225 years ago, there was a meeting of the… Read More
Heritage Congressional Fellows Program Boasts Largest Graduating Class Ever
The Heritage Foundation proudly congratulates the largest graduating class of the Heritage Congressional Fellows program (HCF) to date. The Class of 2012 consists of 61… Read More
Bankrupt DOE Loan Recipient Abound Solar Under Investigation, Panels Suffered “Catastrophic Failure”
Abound Solar, a Department of Energy $400 million loan guarantee recipient that went bankrupt earlier this year, is under investigation by officials in Weld County,… Read More
Internet Freedom and YouTube Under Attack
On September 27, Reporters Without Borders issued a report on the threat to Internet freedom that focused on the relationships of Google and YouTube in… Read More
Turkey Strikes Back Against Syrian Aggression
On Wednesday, Turkey retaliated against a Syrian mortar attack earlier in the day that killed five civilians in the Turkish border town of Akcakale. Turkey… Read More
CHAT: Friday Lunch with Heritage Chat on the Debate
The first of three presidential debates was held on Wednesday night. The debate, focused on domestic policy, covered many issues, and some issues were missed…. Read More
Obama’s Remarks to the U.N. Were Damaging to Free Speech
On Tuesday, United Nations Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson characterized free speech not as a fundamental right, but as a “privilege” given to us by the U.N. Specifically,… Read More
WATCH at 1 p.m.: Debunking Myths on Trade and Jobs
Trade and job creation came up in the presidential debate last night. A longstanding argument for blocking trade is that imports hurt jobs. This argument… Read More
Debate 2012: Obama Cites Debunked Study on Romney’s Tax Plan
During tonight’s debate, President Obama touted an analysis of Governor Mitt Romney’s tax plan that is fatally flawed and has been debunked by a policy… Read More
U.S. Foreign Aid Lacks Transparency, New Study Says
A new study by the international watchdog group Publish What You Fund finds U.S. foreign aid programs lagging seriously in transparency. According to the organization,… Read More
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“U.N. Me” Documentary Exposes the United Nations
Most people are familiar with the U.N.’s notorious ineffectiveness, but viewers of the documentary U.N. Me will reach an inevitable conclusion: It’s even worse than… Read More
Georgian Elections: The Nation’s Ultimate Test
BAKU, Azerbaijan — Georgia’s governing United National Movement (UNM), led by President Mikheil Saakashvili, and the opposition Georgian Dream coalition, led by the billionaire Bidzina… Read More
CHART: Banking on the Private Sector
In his October 1 speech to the 45th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Chambers of Commerce in Latin America, World Bank President Jim… Read More
The Constitution and Our Democracy…er, Republic
It’s usually considered bad form to show up late for a party and then trash the guest of honor. But at a recent Constitution Day… Read More
U.S. Foreign Policy Should Advance Economic Freedom
In his recent commentary, Congressman Devin Nunes (R–CA) penned a bold foreign policy idea that is based on advancing economic freedom: It’s time to try… Read More
Iran Continues Skirting Sanctions
Millions of barrels of Iranian oil have gone undetected by sanctions enforcement, according to a recent Reuters report. In order to subsidize its diminished state-controlled… Read More
As Spain and Greece Burn, Estonia Offers a Lesson
Over the past few days, new strikes and riots have convulsed Greece and Spain. Conventional wisdom (including from economist Paul Krugman) suggests that cuts in… Read More
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Obama Should Assert Resolve the World Can Believe In
With his address to the United Nations this week, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad stated, “I do believe the system of empires has reached the end… Read More
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Public Diplomacy as Apology
Judging by President Obama’s speech to the U.N. General Assembly yesterday, U.S. public diplomacy messaging on the Middle East crisis is stuck perpetually on a… Read More
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Attempting to Decipher the Perplexing Rhetoric of Ahmadinejad’s U.N. Speech
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s highly anticipated U.N. speech can be summed up in one word: erratic. Although he toned down most of the incendiary language… Read More
Matt Damon’s “Promised Land” Twists the Fracking Facts
What happens when ideology and facts go their separate ways in Hollywood? Stick to the ideology — and that’s just what happened in Matt Damon’s… Read More
Philippines Weak as Chinese Flex Naval Muscle
As a concerned world watches the heightened tension that China has yet again dialed up in the East China Sea off the Senkaku Islands, the… Read More
EPA Replacement for Al ‘Crucify Them’ Armendariz May Also Target Coal
President Obama has picked New Mexico’s former top environmental enforcement official to head up the Environmental Protection Agency’s Region Six, which includes much of the… Read More
