Trapped: Decades of kowtowing to the radical environmentalists’ agenda has ceded key influence over energy markets to China and made America beholden to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)—all according to the CCP’s plan. 

• The “U.S. is actively contributing to China’s dominance over the green energy domain while failing to exploit the challenges China has in this sector,” write Senior Research Fellow Erin Walsh and Research Assistant Andrew Harding. 
• America should take immediate action to stop the CCP from permanently dominating the world’s energy supply chain. 

Read the report here. 

 

Cold War continued: Heritage released a report by Senior Policy Advisor Bryan Burack identifying the threat that recent land grabs by foreign adversaries, chiefly China, present to U.S. national security.  

 

Read more here. 

Lawlessness: Evidence shows that America’s communities are suffering from the rise in preventable crime caused by criminals entering the country through the gaping southern border. Meanwhile, the Biden administration looks the other way.  

 

Read Heritage’s report here. 

• To learn more, watch Heritage’s symposium on “Securing the Border and Keeping Americans Safe: How Illegal Immigration Leads to Preventable Crime” here.  

Price of peace: For universities that have caved to the anti-Israel mobs, that price may come in the form of court fees.  

• Northwestern and Rutgers have promised “to dole out admission, scholarships, faculty positions, and other resources based on Palestinian or Arab ethnicity or on Muslim religious belief,” writes Senior Legal Fellow GianCarlo Canaparo.  
• This violates the Civil Rights Act of 1964, opening the schools to lawsuits.  

Read more here.  

Join the Heritage Academy—an eight-week, online fellowship focused on America’s founding principles and the most pressing policy issues of our time. Academy Fellows gain access to compelling policy lectures, conversations with Heritage experts, and discussions with conservatives from across America. Apply to this part-time program by June 2! 

Election integrity: It’s not just outright fraud that threatens the honesty of elections, it’s censorship by Big Tech.  

• “These manipulative practices likely violate state and federal election laws,” write Heritage’s Election Law Reform Initiative Manager Hans A. von Spakovsky and Senior Research Associate Daniel Cochrane. Read their analysis here.  

Also, read why TikTok's “election misinformation” plan can’t be trusted. 

• What: Heritage runs a free, two-day, intensive training program called Ready, Set, HILL! for conservatives aspiring to work on Capitol Hill. 
• Why: The country needs more trained and effective conservative professionals serving House and Senate members.   
• Where: The training can be completed virtually or in-person in D.C.   
• When: Applications are due on May 27. The training will be held on May 30 and 31. Learn more here. 

Rising star: Tulsi Gabbard was a rising star of the Democratic Party. But the growing wokeness, racism, and intolerance were more than she could stomach, and she left.  

• Now an independent, Gabbard calls on those who love America to stand up for peace, defend freedom, and protect our democratic republic from those seeking to destroy it. 
• Gabbard shares her story on The Kevin Roberts Show. 

Watch the podcast here.  

• President Biden’s latest political stunt could transfer nearly $150 billion of student-loan debt onto your It is unfair and economically disastrous.

• You can fight back. Submit a comment opposing this bailout. This is one of the most effective ways to take action against the administrative state. Rules have been delayed and even dropped when met with enough opposition.

• Click here to get started.

• Don’t delay! The comment window closes on Friday, May 17!

• The Heritage Foundation Announces Recipient of 2024 Steven M. Sass Economic Freedom Award 
• Five Rules for Fiscally Responsible, Pro-Growth Tax Reform—Preston Brashers 
• EPA’s New Power Plant Rule Will Cause Catastrophic Energy Scarcity—Mario Loyola  
• Seattle Confirms the Broken Windows Theory—40 Years After It Was Proposed—Gillian Richards 
• Bad U.S. Policy Has Enabled the Current Chaos in the Middle East—Brent Sadler and Nicole Robinson 
• Land Grab: Selling U.S. Real Estate to the Chinese Threatens National Security—Bryan Burack 
• Here’s What Biden Admin Apologists Aren’t Telling You About the Unemployment Rate—EJ Antoni 
• Puerto Rico’s Net-Zero Plans Would Raise Costs, Induce Blackouts—Diana Furchtgott-Roth and Miles Pollard 
• The U.S. Shouldn’t Go the Way of Europe on AI—Jake Denton 
• FBI Should Uncover Who Organized, Funded Radical Student Encampments—Mike Gonzalez 
• Wasteful Government Spending Adds Up—and All of Us Pay the Price—David Ditch 
• A Cautionary Tale Against More Government Involvement in Early Childhood—Lindsey Burke, Ph.D., and Colleen Hroncich 
• Biden’s Border Crisis: Examining the Impacts of Cartels Targeting Indian Country—Zack Smith 

Dr. David Gortler, formerly of the Food and Drug Administration and now a senior research fellow at Heritage, testified before the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic about COVID-19 misinformation peddled by “experts.” In a post on X last week, Roger Severino, vice president of domestic policy at Heritage, said: “Prepared remarks at hearings are terminally boring. Not this one. It is the best argued and delivered testimony I’ve ever seen.” Watch the clip here.