Political Commentary & Opinion

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…

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”…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

An initiative featuring the writings of black Americans will counter and rebut a New York Times Magazine project that “reframes” all of  U.S. history around slavery and racism. The Woodson Center last week announced sponsorship of “1776,” a collection of essays and other material mostly written by black scholars and community and business leaders, among…

A federal appeals court has issued a ruling that not only portends a firestorm on transgender policies in public schools but raises fundamental questions about language, biology, and the law’s role in extricating truth from obscurity when political correctness is prevalent. In its ruling in Parents for Privacy v. Barr, a three-judge panel of the…

Question: What is the difference between God and a federal judge? Answer: God knows that He isn’t a federal judge. On Feb. 6, U.S. District Judge Loretta Biggs of North Carolina issued an injunction barring the Trump administration from implementing a new policy that changes how the government calculates the duration of an illegal immigrant’s…

In the latest edition of “The Rubin Report” podcast, two people I adore, commentators Dave Rubin and Heather Mac Donald, dialogue about some of the great issues facing America. Interestingly, though both are secular, Rubin opened the interview by asking Mac Donald about God and religion. She began by saying that she is not conservative…

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo delivered a powerful defense of American leadership of the West over the weekend at the Munich Security Conference, Europe’s most important annual gathering of national security and foreign policy officials. Pompeo’s message was vital at a time when some of Europe’s leaders are openly questioning America’s commitment to the transatlantic…

Utah recently codified an administrative rule that bans “any practice or treatment that seeks to change the sexual orientation or gender identity of a patient or client” under the age of 18. This made it the 19th state to ban the practice, frequently labeled “conversion therapy.” Some call this a milestone in protecting vulnerable children,…

The question that so many Americans are asking today is, how do we unite our nation once again? In the midst of so much division, how can we remember that we are “one nation under God?” Today’s guest is best-selling author, journalist, and political commentator Sophia Nelson, who dives into the topic of unity in…