Rotten apple: If he has his way, New York mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani will destroy the city’s economic engine and rob New Yorkers of their entrepreneurial spirit, explains a panel of Heritage Foundation experts. 

• “The free-market process is one of faith...in entrepreneurs and innovators,” said Richard Stern, acting director of the Thomas A. Roe Institute for Economic Policy Studies. 
• Research Associate John Peluso warned that Mamdani’s ascendance could inspire other socialists to run for office at the local level and must be stopped if Americans in general are to maintain their prosperity. 

Click here to learn more about the rise of socialism in America.

Off the rails: Heritage legal scholars have started to issue dishonorable conduct awards to rogue judges who fail to impartially apply the law to the facts.

• First “winners” are Judge Edward Chen from the Northern District of California and three judges from the 9th Circuit who "simply ignored the statutory language altogether,” write Heritage Senior Legal Fellows Hans von Spakovsky and Tom Jipping.

Read the full story on The Daily Signal here.

Persecuted: President Trump did a public service by calling out the horrifying persecution of Christians in Nigeria, which alerted the American public to an ongoing issue across the continent.

• “Christianity is expanding on the African continent and wields great influence, but persecution and religious oppression remain critical issues,” writes Ned Rauch-Mannino, visiting fellow at the Allison Center for National Security.

Read his detailed report here.

Ship shape: America is in serious need of local, in-house shipbuilders and shipyards to decrease its dependence on China and make the United States war-ready. 

• “American waterfronts can kickstart investments by nominating themselves as Maritime Prosperity Zones (MPZs),” writes Senior Research Fellow Brent Sadler. 

Read Sadler's op-ed in The Washington Times here. 

Justice undermined: Operation Arctic Frost was a coordinated effort at the FBI and Justice Department to undermine President Trump and the conservative movement, said Mike Howell, head of the Oversight Project—an independent investigative organization launched at Heritage. 

• The point “was to put a dragnet around all those who raised claims about the validity of the [2020] election."

Read more about Arctic Frost at The Daily Signal here.

Shh: The Left’s penchant for censorship goes back at least six decades—but it’s back and worse than ever in the digital age.

• “This idea that a ‘stupid opinion’ cannot be treated equally with an ‘intelligent one,’ as defined by the Left, is heard today, again and again, in support of censoring online content,” writes Senior Fellow Mike Gonzalez.

Read Gonzalez’s piece in The Washington Examiner here.

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• That’s why we published American Founders: Leaders at the Creation of the Republic.
• In this free eBook, you’ll learn how the Founders created the greatest nation in the world, and delve deep into the lives of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and others.

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Join legal experts for a panel that will explore the past, present, and future of the “major questions doctrine,”—which requires Congress to specifically authorize any sweeping economic actions by regulators—in light of the Supreme Court’s Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo decision. This event is co-hosted with Catholic University’s Center for the Constitution and the Catholic Intellectual Tradition.

 

Nov 12, 12 p.m. Register here.

• Bill Gates Has Just Demolished the Fallacy at the Heart of Net Zero—Diana Furchtgott-Roth
• The Culpabilité That Binds Alabama—Allen Mendenhall, Ph.D.
• Taxpayers Shouldn’t Foot the Bill for Student Loan ‘Forgiveness’—Jonathan Butcher
• Transitioning From Coal Through ‘Creative Destruction’—Austin Gae
• The U.S. Should Open a ‘School of the Philippines’ to Deter China—Robert Peters and David Lewis
• Report: The China Connection: From Illegal Fishing to Narcotics Trafficking—Carol Thomason and Brent Sadler
• Iowa Does Not Need ‘Revolutionary’ Election Changes That Violate Voters’ Associational Rights—Hans A. von Spakovsky
• Overregulation Has Put Small Banks at Risk—EJ Antoni, Ph.D.

Robert Greenway, director of the Allison Center for National Security, appeared on Fox Business to talk about Hamas’ violation of the peace agreement with Israel, but notes that the most important objective has already been achieved—the return of all remaining living hostages. Watch the clip on X.