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Should you be forced to disclose your charitable donations to the government? Is it an invasion of your privacy and a violation of your First Amendment rights if the government requires nonprofit membership organizations that you join and contribute to—such as the NAACP, NARAL Pro-Choice America, the National Right to Life Committee, or Americans for…

On World Suicide Prevention Day, Sept. 10, we recognize suicide as the tragedy it is. Yet at this very moment, activists are agitating to expand—not to prevent—physician-assisted suicide. This practice promotes the idea that some lives are more valuable than others, an idea that rips apart the social fabric of our nation. No one should…

There’s been no news from New York about Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s little eagle feather and his big mistake of law. And no news is bad news for the rule of law. Congress should take note. In a speech last month, Cuomo inadvertently discussed violating a federal statute, the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act, when…

Need new headphones? Amazon. Need to get across town? Uber. Need a date? Tinder. Need to end world poverty? Socialism. What do these all have in common? They are quick fixes to problems we face daily—things we need or like to confront in a timely manner. But how are they different? The first three work, the…

The Justice Department made news on Thursday when it filed a “statement of interest” in a long-running lawsuit against Harvard University that supported claims of Asian-American students that the university is discriminating in its admission process. In fact, the evidence uncovered during the discovery process of the pending lawsuit seems overwhelming that Harvard is violating the Civil…

Twenty-eight-year-old democratic socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez jumped into the national spotlight when she defeated longtime Congressman Joseph Crowley in the New York Democratic primary in June. Many view her, along with socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., as carrying the mantle for a renewed socialist trend in the United States among millennials. Indeed, socialism enjoys stronger support…

Social Security takes a whopping 12.4 percent of American workers’ paychecks, but a new backgrounder by The Heritage Foundation shows that workers are getting a bad deal from the program. Despite its popularity, Social Security typically provides very low—and in many cases, negative—rates of return. Although the program provided high returns and windfall benefits to…

China’s Ministry of Commerce sent trade officials to Washington this week at the invitation of the United States. This is a welcome respite from all the talk of a trade war between the two countries, but we are still far from an armistice. While the talks between Chinese Vice Minister of Commerce Wang Shouwen and…