Evergreen Topics

Filter articles by
  • news

    Leading Anti-Trump Protest Organizer Engages With Socialist, Communist Groups on Social Media

    A key organizer of anti-Trump protests—including the “No Kings” rallies last month—appears to have social media connections with far-left organizations that include openly communist and socialist organizations. The group 50501—read “Fifty-Fifty-One”—is so named to symbolize 50 protests for 50 states and one movement. The 50501 movement says it had decentralized protests across the country on…
    Read More
  • opinion

    Modest Cuts, Outsized Outrage: The Truth Behind the Big, Beautiful Bill’s Budget Reform

    An unspoken rule among the Washington establishment is that once Congress throws money at a spending program, that decision should be treated as irrevocable. If a future Congress shows any fiscal conservatism and tries even to address some of its waste and abuse, left-wing lawmakers—and their allies in the media—will excoriate it for making supposedly…
    Read More
  • news

    Majority of Americans See Chaplains in Public Schools as a Resource

    Most adults in the U.S. would support chaplains in public schools, a recent survey suggests.   The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research reported that 58% of the public thinks religious chaplains should be allowed to provide support services in public schools.    While 6 in 10 adults agree that chaplains should be able to have…
    Read More
  • opinion

    The Tide Is Turning on Gender Ideology

    In the final weeks of its 2024-25 term, the Supreme Court ruled to uphold Tennessee’s restrictions on gender transitions for minors. The high court’s decision in U.S. v. Skrmetti preceded the University of Pennsylvania’s announcement on Tuesday that it would prohibit men who identify as transgender from participating in women’s athletic competitions. The university also…
    Read More
  • news

    Musk Launches the ‘America Party.’ A Business Associate Is Not Pleased.

    Tech titan Elon Musk announced on Saturday the launch of a new political party named the “America Party” in response to the passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. The One Big Beautiful Bill Act passed the House on Thursday with a vote of 218-214. The legislation includes provisions that align with President Donald Trump‘s…
    Read More
  • opinion

    What the 12-Day War Hath Wrought

    Not many people today remember the exhilaration so many Americans felt after Israel’s victory in the Six-Day War in June 1967. The liberal folks around me at work and law school then had been frustrated and puzzled at the lack of progress being made in Vietnam by the 448,000 U.S. troops stationed there, and the…
    Read More
  • news

    ‘Texans Are Tough’: Cornyn Praises Heroic Rescues, Mourns Losses in Wake of Flash Flood Tragedy

    Texas is unified in prayer and rescue efforts as the flooding hazard remains, Sen. John Cornyn shared on Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures” this morning. As of Sunday afternoon, CNN reported the death toll from Friday’s devastating flash flood in Central Texas had risen to 68, with 11 young girls still missing from Camp Mystic,…
    Read More
  • opinion

    Populist Rage and Woke Folly: Le Figaro Interviews Mario Loyola

    On June 12, 2025, the leading French newspaper Le Figaro published an extended interview with Heritage Foundation senior fellow Mario Loyola. In “Populist Rage and Woke Folly Will Give Rise to an American Synthesis,” Laure Mandeville frames the current moment in American politics as an “apoplectic phase … marked by maximalist posturing and the theatrical…
    Read More
  • news

    Trump Signs Order Raising Park Fees for Foreign Tourists

    President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday to increase entry fees to U.S. national parks for international visitors in order to “improve services, access, and affordability for Americans.” The order, titled Making America Beautiful Again by Improving Our National Parks, directs Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum, who oversees the National Park Service, to…
    Read More
  • opinion

    The End of Patriotism?

    America has a major problem: nearly half of Americans—42%— don’t believe in America. According to Gallup, just 58% of adults say they are either “extremely” or “somewhat” proud to be American. That number has been in steep decline for a decade: In 2004, that number was 91%, and was still 81% as of 2016. Then…
    Read More
  • opinion

    The Greatest Enigma: How Christians Solved a Foundational Mystery 1,700 Years Ago

    Eighty-five score years ago, our religious forefathers brought forth a new creed, grounded in scripture and dedicated to the proposition that Jesus is both fully God and fully man. Between May and August 325 A.D., Christian leaders across the Roman Empire joined together to debate a central question: What is Jesus’ nature? Contrary to popular…
    Read More
  • opinion

    Democrats Uncork Crazy Talk on the ‘Big Beautiful Bill’

    Democrats can say the wildest and craziest things and know that all those badly named “mainstream” media outlets and fact-checkers won’t care in the slightest. Sen. Bernie Sanders can call the Republicans a Stalinist cult. Rep. Pramila Jayapal can call U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement a “terrorist force.” It’s all fair game. Somehow I have…
    Read More
  • opinion

    Revive Civics Education for America’s 250th

    “America is not perfect, but perfection is not its promise. Opportunity is. And as long as we remain faithful to that idea, the American Dream will endure.” So wrote a high school student from Illinois, one of the winners of the 2025 America’s Field Trip contest. Sponsored by the U.S. Semiquincentennial, or the America 250 Commission, the contest invited…
    Read More
  • news

    Reclaiming American Patriotism: Hazony’s Vision for National Conservatism

    Why are Americans losing their patriotism? And what’s the answer to regaining it?  National pride dipped to a new low this week. Just 58% of Americans said in a June Gallup poll that they are either “extremely” or “very” proud to be an American. While the record plummet is largely due to a drop in…
    Read More
  • news

    House Speaker Reveals One Big Beautiful Bill Act is First of Three Reconciliation Bills

    While the One Big Beautiful Bill Act passed after a lengthy and tense period, there will be even more reconciliation bills to follow in the coming months, said House Speaker Mike Johnson on Fox News Sunday today.  “We have been planning a second reconciliation bill for the fall that would be attached to the next…
    Read More
  • opinion

    Can God Stop the Fall of the West?

    Someday you could be immortalized in a museum display case—and that’s not a good thing.  “All the great civilizations of the past can only be found in three places—museums, in ruins, or in history books … great though they were, they rose, they declined, and they fell,” observes the author, theologian, and social critic, Os…
    Read More
  • news

    Are China-Linked Organizations Affecting US Environmental Policies?

    China-linked entities have their fingerprints on climate lobbying and lawsuits in the U.S., causing alarm among some lawmakers and watchdog organizations.  “I don’t know the intentions. But whatever the intentions, policy after policy demonstrably strengthens China and weakens the United States,” Scott Walter, president of the investigative think tank Capital Research Center, told The Daily Signal…
    Read More
  • news

    Why States Warn Continued UN Funding Hurts Farmers

    Eleven state agriculture commissioners called on the Trump administration and Congress to yank funding from United Nations programs that they say are hurting American farmers.  “The federal government should stop using American taxpayer dollars to fund the United Nations International Maritime Organization, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, and the United Nations…
    Read More
  • opinion

    What Women Want

    Do all women want a “unicorn”? In a pivotal scene in new movie “The Materialists,” the matchmaker heroine tells a handsome man he’s exactly the kind of man her clients are looking for. He’s wealthy, he’s tall, and he doesn’t have a drug problem. He is, she concludes, a “unicorn”—a virtually impossible find and yet…
    Read More
  • news

    Rebel Ex-DNC Official Hogg’s PAC Endorses Gen Z Candidate in Arizona Race

    Former Democratic National Committee Vice Chair David Hogg’s political action committee, Leaders We Deserve, has endorsed a Gen Z challenger, Deja Foxx, in an Arizona special congressional primary next week.  “Deja Foxx has been holding Republicans’ and career politicians’ feet to the fire since she was 15 years old. She’s an organizer who has carved…
    Read More