For the record: Kevin D. Dayaratna, Ph.D., chief statistician at Heritage’s Center for Data Analysis, and former Heritage research assistant Alexander Gage, wrote a groundbreaking report on how a left-leaning think tank skewed the facts to claim that Republican state leadership leads to higher murder rates. As it turns out, the opposite is true. 

• “Averaging across all counties that voted for Donald Trump yields an aggregate homicide rate of 4.06 per 100,000 people,” explain Dayaratna and Gage, “while averaging across counties that voted for Joe Biden yields a homicide rate of 6.52 per 100,000 people.” 

Read the report here. 

False equivalence: Senate leadership is once again trying to force through a massive Ukraine funding bill—this time by tying it to military aid for Israel. 

• “The conflicts in Ukraine and Israel are two distinct events that deserve two distinct responses,” write Heritage president Kevin Roberts, Ph.D., and Sen. J.D. Vance, R-Ohio, in an op-ed published in The Hill.   

Find out why aid to Israel is different here. 

Don’t: As the Left calls for the U.S. to take in migrants from Gaza, Heritage is raising the alarm. 

• “We can’t vet a population against a database that doesn’t exist,” writes Lora Reis, director of Heritage’s Border Security and Immigration Center.  

Related: The Homeland Security Dept. put an employee on leave after she posted “F--- Israel”—and more. Heritage wants to know how she was hired in the first place.  

Infiltrated: Senior Research Fellow Jay P. Greene and Research Fellow Jason Bedrick tracked the whereabouts of 300 former campus radicals identified by watchdog group Canary Mission. They discovered that 38% of the “worst of the worst” now hold jobs in primary or higher education.  

• “They have simply moved their revolutionary struggle to the classroom, where they can recruit the next generation of campus radicals,” Greene and Bedrick write. Read more here.
  

Life Support: Recent estimates predict that Medicare will be insolvent by 2031—jeopardizing seniors’ access to health care. 

• Modernizing Medicare, edited by current and former Heritage experts Robert Moffit and Marie Fishpaw, respectively, offers real solutions. 
• Alain Enthoven, a well-known health care economist, called it a “guidebook for the inevitable changes that must be made in Medicare.”  

Read more about how conservative ideas can revive the Medicare program. 

• Former PLO Spokeswoman Tweets ‘F--- Israel’ While Working at DHS. Heritage Demands Answers—Tyler O’Neil 
• Narrative About Israeli Airstrike on Hospital Collapses—Along With Corporate Media Credibility—Jarrett Stepman  
• We’re In A New Cold War. It’s Time Our Politicians Acted Like It—Kevin D. Roberts, Ph.D. 
• Joe Biden's Oval Office Address Was a Disaster—James Jay Carafano.  
• University of Michigan Law School EXPOSED—Rotten to the Core—Hans von Spakovsky 
• Affirmative Action Must End at Military-Service Academies—Paul J. Larkin, Charles ‘Cully’ Stimson and Thomas W. Spoehr 
• Slavery Poisons Solar Industry’s Supply Chains—Miles Pollard 
• Worsening Economy Pushes Consumers Near the Breaking Point—EJ Antoni 
• Chief Diversity Officers Harm the Students They Say They Help—Jay P. Greene Ph.D., and Madison Marino
• The U.S. Must Oppose a Premature Cease-Fire in Gaza—Mario Loyola 
• How Discriminatory DEI Ideology Replicates Itself in the Federal Bureaucracy—Simon Hankinson
• Democratic Governance Can Get Messy—Eric Teetsel 
• The American Families and Jobs Act: A Decidedly Mixed Bag as 2025 Tax Cliff Looms—Preston Brashers 

Lawmakers continue to turn to Heritage experts for advice and counsel on pressing matters. Over the past week, four of them testified before Congress: 

• Robert Greenway: House Homeland Security Committee, An Examination of the Iranian Regime’s Threats to Homeland Security (transcript) 
• Paul Ray: House Small Business Committee, Burdensome Regulations: Examining the Effects of DOL Rulemaking on America’s Job Creators (at 00:24) 
• Simon Hankinson: House Committee on Natural Resources, Ensuring Border Access and Protection on Federal Land Act (at 00:52) 
• Cully Stimson: House Judiciary Committee, Examining the Status of Our Nation’s Immigration Courts (at 00:50)