Draining the swamps: The presidents of Harvard, MIT, and UPenn landed in hot water for their blatantly antisemitic comments to members of Congress. But that just scratches the surface. Antisemitism is rampant at public universities across the nation, fueled by an army of “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI) staff, and they should finally be held accountable. 

• George Mason University, for example, has one of the most bloated DEI bureaucracies in the country, which has undoubtedly led to Mason’s campus being “one of the earliest and largest scenes of pro-terrorist demonstrations by such radical groups as Students for Justice in Palestine,” write Senior Fellow Mike Gonzalez and Senior Research Fellow Jay Greene. 

Read more about the moral rot at our universities here.  

Solution: Policymakers find it hard to impose basic measures like age restrictions to protect kids using these services. How can states and the federal government protect kids online without violating the First Amendment?  

• “The biggest lesson so far is to look to both the apps and the app stores when it comes to age restrictions,” write Heritage Tech Policy Center Director Kara Frederick and Digital Progress Institute President Joel Thayer. 

Read more here.  

Step by step: Research shows that 97% of millennials who obtained a high school diploma, worked or pursued a college degree after graduation, and got married before having children didn’t end up in poverty as adults. So why don’t schools teach this? 

• Heritage published a model resolution that school boards and educators can use to integrate this proven “success sequence” into classrooms.   

Read more about this new tool here.  

History repeats: President Carter believed that election fraud was a real threat and actively fought for election reform. Here’s why: 

• “Organized voter fraud in Jimmy Carter’s first run for office stole his election,” writes Hans von Spakovsky, senior legal fellow at Heritage.  
• Carter claimed publicly that he’d won and went to court to fight to overturn the election, continues Spakovsky. 

Read the full story here. 

Radicalism on American college campuses has become intolerable. Consider how a future gift to Heritage could protect the next generation here.  

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• Airfare Savings Grounded by Biden Administration—EJ Antoni 
• Powering Human Advancement: Why the World Needs Affordable and Reliable Energy—Kevin D. Dayaratna, Ph.D., Diana Furchtgott-Roth, Miles Pollard, and Richard Stern 
• America Is Taking a High-Speed Train to Bankruptcy—David Ditch 
• Only 3.6% of Americans Got Updated COVID-19 Shots as of Oct. 31, 2023 Deadline—David Gortler 
• The Fight Against Gender Ideology Needs Strong Parents, Leaders, and Laws—Emma Waters
• Would China Dare Launch a Second Pearl Harbor on America?—Brent Sadler 
• Battling the Cartels Requires a Refocus—Brent Sadler and James Di Pane 
• Why Are We Doing So Little To Counter China’s Military Buildup?—Wilson Beaver 
• What Argentina’s President-Elect Javier Milei Means for U.S.—EJ Antoni and Peter St. Onge
• An Ignorant Public Poses a Threat to the Republic It Cannot Keep—Thomas Jipping 

“Welcome to the most expensive Christmas ever, courtesy of Bidenomics,” says EJ Antoni, a research fellow and public finance economist with Heritage’s Grover M. Hermann Center for the Federal Budget, in a video short on YouTube. Watch it here.