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Biden needs to stand by Israel, against terrorism <[link removed]> – The U.S. has to signal its abject disgust with Hamas and Iran and its direct proxies. The best way to that is to pull the U.S. negotiating team working on the Iran deal out of Vienna until the violence stops. Biden also needs to send a strong signal to the moderate Arab nations that the U.S. is fully committed to supporting and expanding the Abraham Accords. Finally, the U.S. needs to work with Arab partners to start to undermine the influence and resources of extremist Iran Proxy groups like IJ and Hezbollah. Iran’s attacks on Israel via its terror proxies is a test of American power. By responding swiftly and appropriately, the U.S. has an opportunity to re-exert strength in the region and undermine Iran’s influence in the Middle East. Heritage expert: Jim Carafano <[link removed]>
The Right Way to Fight Racism <[link removed]> – Instead of evaluating us as individuals with moral responsibility for our own choices, critical race theory, which is being institutionalized across America reduces
people to the color of their skin, prejudging all whites as beneficiaries of systemic racism and exonerating all non-whites from racist motives and actions. But using race as a proxy for guilt and innocence is a fundamentally flawed idea. Human beings aren’t that simple. Each of us is capable of making good or bad choices, and we should be held responsible for the choices we make, not the ones that previous generations made. As Chief Justice John Roberts said in a 2009 case on racial preferences: “The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of
race.” The path out of racial discrimination is through knowing one another and being known, as individuals. Heritage expert: Emilie Kao <[link removed]>
Tennessee governor OKs transgender youth treatment ban <[link removed]> – Every person should be treated with dignity and respect, and no one should be unjustly discriminated
against. This includes girls and women who shouldn’t be forced to compete against males and who should have privacy and safety in single-sex facilities. Efforts to impose extremist ideology on every American—especially through the Equality Act—will make changes to our education and health care system in ways that allow irreversible harm to
children. Parents, concerned citizens, and lawmakers around the country have signed the Promise to America’s Children, which calls for protecting safe and fair athletic competitions. Governor Hutchinson and other lawmakers are doing the right thing by pushing back against policies that endanger our children’s minds, bodies, and familial relationships. Heritage experts: Emilie Kao <[link removed]> and Jared
Eckert <[link removed]>
Women's workplace recovery from COVID-19 could become a leap forward <[link removed]> – President Biden and many members of Congress are using the bygone disparities of COVID-19
on women as an excuse to enact a slate of government programs that will give politicians more control over women’s and families’ lives. Not only have programs such as government-run paid family leave and subsidized government child-care programs proved ineffective at improving women’s success in the workplace, they’ve resulted in
a host of unintended consequences detrimental to women, children and families. Now that societal reopenings have mostly reversed the shutdown’s disparate impacts on working women, it is time to embrace the positive changes in workplace flexibility and family-friendly policies that have and hopefully will continue to ensue. Instead of proposing new interventions, policymakers should look to removing existing government barriers so that more women can pursue the career and family choices that are best for them. Heritage expert: Rachel Greszler <[link removed]>
What We Know About DarkSide, the Russian Hacker Group That Just Wreaked Havoc on the East Coast <[link removed]> – As U.S. lawmakers, private sector leaders, and the Biden administration continue to respond to the ramifications of this attack, it is mind-boggling that President Joe Biden is reportedly handing Putin a win by waiving sanctions on the company in charge of completing the Nord Stream II pipeline. The Nord Stream II pipeline project will allow Putin to extend his
tentacles further into Europe and will cause economic harm to U.S. ally Ukraine—which is still reeling from Russia’s illegal annexation of Crimea. Biden has boasted that nobody is tougher on Russia than himself. To help Putin complete his pipeline just days after Russians shutdown a U.S. pipeline proves that his actions do not match his rhetoric. Now is the time for the U.S. to take the threat of cybercriminals serious—and not turn a blind eye to the nation-states that harbor them. Heritage expert: Dustin Carmack <[link removed]>
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