Reverse course: When Tom Homan, visiting fellow at Heritage and former acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, warned lawmakers three years ago of a coming humanitarian and national security catastrophe on the Southern border, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., called his testimony “jingoistic,” “bigoted,” “untrue,” and “an outrage.” 

• “I look back and say: No, Congresswoman, I am not inhumane. You are. Just look at the carnage that you’ve wrought,” Homan writes. Read more here. 

Biden’s Border Crisis: All Crime, No Punishment 

 

Disaster: President Biden's strategy of tackling “root causes” of illegal immigration has utterly failed, writes Senior Research Fellow Simon Hankinson. Read more here. 

 

Congress Must Block This Open-Border Insanity 

 

End the madness: Congress needs to look to H.R. 2, the most comprehensive border bill to date, to fix the immigration crisis, write Heritage President Dr. Kevin Roberts and Rep. Eli Crane, R–Ariz., adding that “conservatives cannot squander an opportunity to truly secure the border and should not settle for a few bones the Left agrees to throw their way.” Read more here. 

Bad to the bone: Congress needs to follow through on its promises to protect harmless, everyday Americans, including pro-life activists and traditional Catholics, from the woke ideological bureaucrats that have taken over the nation’s most powerful federal law enforcement bureau. 

• “If lawmakers fail to de-weaponize the FBI,” warns director of the Oversight Project Mike Howell, “the Republic may not survive our generation.” 

Read more a about how it can be done here. 

Scandal: The Biden administration may finally answer to the American people for its cover-up of COVID-19’s origins.  

• It has stonewalled efforts by Sens. Rand Paul, R-Ky., and Ron Johnson, R-Wisc., to track down pertinent documents.  
• But House Republicans have subpoena power to obtain the records that the Biden administration would rather hide, writes Senior Research Fellow Robert Moffit.  

Read the full story here.  

Merit first: Harvard President Claudine Gay’s resignation may signal a turning point in the culture war, writes Senior Research Fellow Jay Greene. Read Greene’s op-ed here. 

• Senior Fellow Mike Gonzalez says it’s time to purge higher education of the “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI) apparatus that Gay represents.  
• “Many Republicans tend to run for the hills at the sight of cultural issues, but now, some are discovering courage,” he writes. 

Read Gonzalez’s op-ed here.  

• Dismantle the Teacher Accreditation Cartel—Kevin D. Roberts, Ph.D. 
  
• A Failing Grade for Harvard’s Claudine Gay—Max Eden and Jay P. Greene, Ph.D. 
  
• The College Bubble Is Bursting. Good Riddance—Jason Bedrick 
• Alejandro Mayorkas’s Designed Failure at the Border Is Disgraceful—Simon Hankinson 
  
• Why Biden’s Support Among Hispanics Is Tanking—Here’s a Hint: The Border Crisis—Mike Gonzalez   
  
• Associated Press Gets It Wrong: Wind Farm Contractors Acknowledge Turbines Harm Dolphins—Diana Furchtgott-Roth 
  
• The Murky Depths of Chinese-Russian Cooperation—Daniel Kochis  
  
• The U.S. Needs More Munitions To Deter China—Wilson Beaver and Jim Fein  
  
• Big Box Retailers Seeking To Shift Their Costs and Handicap Small Competitors—Joel Griffith
  
• Do We Still Need the Post Office?—Parker Sheppard, Ph.D. 
  
• Washington Metro’s Woes Show Folly of Alexandria Arena Plan—David Ditch 
  
• Twenty-First Century Illicit Drugs and Their Discontents: Methamphetamine—The Downs of Ups, or Tweaking the Night Away—Paul Larkin 

Roger Severino, vice president of domestic policy and a Harvard alum, appeared on Fox News to discuss the resignation of Harvard President Claudine Gay and the impact of DEI on higher education. Watch the clip here.