Political Commentary & Opinion

Prime Minister Theresa May of the United Kingdom on Friday announced her intention to resign. May will quit as head of the governing Conservative Party on June 7, so she will still be in office when President Donald Trump pays a state visit June 3-5. When she steps down, that will trigger the process of…

Who is a United States citizen by birth? This question has increasingly received national attention, in large part because of President Donald Trump’s promise to “end birthright citizenship.” As I explain, however, in my recent Heritage Foundation legal memo titled “The Citizenship Clause’s Original Meaning and What It Means Today,” Congress definitively settled that question…

Have American millennials only known hardship? That seems to be the takeaway from a recent Wall Street Journal article. The report highlighted how millennials, some of whom are now reaching middle age, lag far behind previous generations in terms of financial security. “American millennials are approaching middle age in worse financial shape than every living…

ERBIL, Iraq—A quick story about the meaning of Memorial Day from the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan. On my way to dinner, I hailed one of the city’s ubiquitous beige taxis and hopped in the front seat. Having been in Kurdistan before, I’ve learned to sit in the front seat. The taxi drivers act a little…

Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam came under a firestorm of scrutiny last February when a photograph surfaced from his college yearbook page depicting two men dressed in racist costumes. One man wore a KKK robe, the other man wore blackface. Northam immediately apologized, saying, “I am deeply sorry for the decision I made to appear as…

Electoral College foes have been trying to get their way in Nevada for a decade. Have they finally succeeded? Nevada’s state Senate approved National Popular Vote legislation on Tuesday. The measure is now awaiting approval from Gov. Steve Sisolak, a Democrat. The governor’s signature will add Nevada to a growing movement to ditch the Electoral…

For years, Congress has been sharply divided over a nuclear waste repository proposed for Yucca Mountain in Nevada. However, an appropriations amendment offered by Rep. Mike Simpson, R-Idaho—considered by the House Appropriations Committee and narrowly rejected Tuesday—is a reasonable, unobjectionable compromise that the Senate should take up in ongoing budget decisions. The Simpson amendment neither…

John Walker Lindh, the former “American Taliban,” is almost back on the streets. Captured on the battlefield in Afghanistan in 2002, he was convicted of providing material support to terrorism and has been in prison ever since. Now he is set to be released on Thursday, even though he has never denounced the Islamist cause. This has led…

Emma Watson is leading the charge to have the Group of Seven leading industrial nations fund controversial feminist groups in the developing world and institute far-reaching gender-equality legislation. The actress of “Harry Potter” fame seems to think that with a wave of a giant, transnational magic wand, she can make gender inequality vanish. An activist…

In a special episode of “Problematic Women,” Heritage Foundation President Kay Coles James joins us to talk about the Women’s Suffrage Centennial Commission. President Donald Trump appointed James to the bipartisan commission formed to celebrate the passage of the 19th Amendment, which secured women’s right to vote. In this week’s podcast, we discuss the history…

Surrogacy is touted by some celebrities, including Kim Kardashian West and Kanye West, who have had two children via surrogates. But is it as safe as the media coverage suggests? Jennifer Lahl of the Center for Bioethics and Culture breaks down the medical risks the procedure has, as well as some of the legal and…

We all thought those online quizzes that give you a score based on “how privileged you are” were funny. Except now, the score is real—and it will affect your life dramatically if you’re an anxious high schooler applying to college.  A new report by The Wall Street Journal describes the efforts of The College Board,…

We no longer live in a constitutional republic. We live in an idiocracy. Only in modern-day America, under the Democratic-controlled U.S. House of Representatives, is the basic proposition that federally subsidized public housing should benefit American citizens and legal residents slammed as “despicable” and “damaging.” Those are the hysterical words used by Democratic Rep. Carolyn…

As the LGBT movement continues to grow in power and influence, it has started to market drag and transgender ideology to the most gullible group out there: children. These efforts normalize concepts that are unscientific and that promote medical treatments that many medical professionals oppose. Take what happened recently on Mother’s Day. Chips Ahoy!, king…