Just in: Heritage just released TIDALWAVE, an unprecedented AI-enabled simulation of a protracted conflict between the U.S. and China in the Indo-Pacific.

• “The United States remains woefully unprepared," says Rob Greenway, director of the Allison Center for National Security and lead author of the TIDALWAVE report.
• The goal of TIDALWAVE is to identify the deficiencies in both U.S. and Chinese munitions and fuel systems, in order to correct America’s own deficiencies and exploit China’s.

Read the full report here, and the press release here.

Being green: “Greenland has been a national security concern of the United States since the 19th century,” writes Robert Peters, senior research fellow in the Allison Center for National Security, and President Trump is only the most recent to express interest in it.

• Peters says the U.S., Denmark, and Greenland have the chance “to craft a future that works to the advantage of all three countries.”

Read more here to find out how.

Shameful: The bad actors who disrupted a church service in Minneapolis should be held accountable under state and federal law, says Heritage Senior Legal Fellow Zach Smith.

• “The First Amendment right to assemble and protest, or even a weaponized reading of the freedom of the press, does not provide protection for violating others’ First Amendment rights to freely worship,” he explains.

Check out The Daily Signal piece here.

Join the High School Track of the Heritage Academy and connect with conservative students from across America!

• This spring, high school students can participate in the Heritage Academy, an eight-week, online public policy fellowship focused on America’s founding principles and the most pressing policy issues of our time.

Why join the Heritage Academy’s High School Track?

• Gain access to compelling policy lectures.
• Have conversations with leaders and experts in the conservative movement.
• Connect with conservative students from across America.

Apply by Feb. 1 here. 

Economics 101: President Trump is restoring fiscal sanity to the federal government, despite headwinds from the Swamp.

• “The combination of reducing Treasury outlays and increasing receipts reduces the budget deficit and may lead to lower inflation, stabilized prices, and supply-side private sector growth—all of which will usher in a golden era of affordability for Americans,” writes Heritage Senior Research Associate Nicole Huyer.

Read Huyer’s piece in The Daily Signal here.

Sunset: Congress has tried multiple times to combat Big Tech abuses to no avail. One way to break the logjam would be to simply sunset the much-ballyhooed “Section 230,” which lets Big Tech escape liability.

• “If enacted, the sunset could break Big Tech’s seemingly impenetrable stranglehold on the legislative process, forcing Congress to protect kids online and secure Americans’ freedom from censorship,” writes Daniel Cochrane, research associate at Heritage. 

Read more here.

The youth: For young people, the affordability crisis has made the American Dream seem unattainable. But Heritage’s Jacob Matthews explains what the conservative movement can do to meet this moment.

• “Gen Z isn’t rejecting America; we’re demanding that it work again. And if conservatives are serious about reclaiming the soul of the nation, the path forward runs directly through the issues my generation lives with every day,” writes Matthews.

Read more here.

Calling all innovators: Each year, Heritage awards $1 million in prizes to conservative organizations focused on policy solutions. The 2026 Innovation Prizes round is open for applications, but the window is closing fast.

• The prizes serve the movement and unite conservatives “to provide creative solutions to the most pressing problems facing the country,” says Heritage President Dr. Kevin Roberts.

Learn more about the prizes on The Daily Signal.

Apply here by 11:59 p.m., Feb. 2.

All parents want their children to be safe at school. For U.S. Commission on Civil Rights Commissioner Stephen Gilchrist and his family, that hope was shattered when his son experienced a bullying incident that threatened his civil rights. Hear Gilchrist’s firsthand account and learn how the public school system failed to protect his son. An expert panel will then explore personal strategies and policy solutions to help families to advocate for their children when public schools won’t.

 

Feb. 5, 11 a.m. Register here.

Heritage’s Young Leaders Program is hiring for the next class of talented young conservatives.

• Interns learn from the Boyce-Haller First Principles Lecture Series and some of the conservative movement’s brightest policy minds; they contribute to Heritage’s work on policy, communications, government relations, outreach, and operations. And more! 
• Internships are based in Washington, D.C., and pay is $18/hour.
• The semester starts May 11 and ends Aug. 7.
• Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis and are due on Feb. 1.

Learn more and apply here!

• Is Weed Quietly Crushing Fertility?—Scott Yenor and Jennifer Galardi
• The War on Black Fathers—Delano Squires
• The Chilling Rise of American Muslim Converts Being Radicalized Online—Simon Hankinson
• Minnesota’s Welfare Fraud Disaster Exposes a National System Designed to Fail—Rachel Sheffield and Ed Haislmaier
• It’s Time to Get Creative with Greenland—Eugene Kontorovich
• Counterpoint: Why America Should Take the Lead in Greenland—Before Our Adversaries Do—Paul McCarthy
• The Japan-China Crisis Is a Major Test for the National Security Strategy—Yuichiro Kakutani
• A ‘Tear Down the Wall’ Moment in Iran Will Damage Both the Islamic Republic—and China—Victoria Coates

Diana Furchtgott-Roth, director of the Center for Energy, Climate, and the Environment, appeared on Newsmax to discuss trade relations with China, noting that exporting oil to China can be a good thing, but importing electric cars from China is not. Watch the clip here.