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Is Stagflation Returning in 2022 — During the late 1970s, American families experienced stagflation—a combination of economic stagnation and significantly higher inflation. By the summer of 1980, unemployment hit 7.8 percent and the economy was actually shrinking. On the year, inflation spiked 12.3 percent. Some fear that today’s slowing economic growth (2.3 percent annualized last quarter) and the steepest price hikes in 40 years portend a return to stagflation. Heritage Expert: Joel Griffith

BREAKING: Biden Administration Making Lists of Religious Vaccine Objectors — A tiny administrative agency in the District of Columbia announced a new policy Tuesday that will likely serve as a model for a whole-of-government push to assemble lists of Americans who object on religious grounds to a COVID-19 vaccine. We’re starting to suspect that President Joe Biden is not keeping his promise to have the most transparent administration in history.What’s really going on with this announcement at this tiny agency? Likely, the Biden administration is using this it to stealth test a policy it intends to roll out across the whole government. Heritage Expert: Sarah Parshall Perry and GianCarlo Canaparo

Heritage Experts Fact Check Biden & Harris’ Lies About Elections, Voting Rights, Filibuster — President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris repeated numerous falsehoods about the election process and the filibuster Tuesday while pushing their anti-voter agenda in Georgia. These comments come as Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer prepares to cast aside decades of Senate precedent and force changes to the filibuster in order to pass two unpopular and dangerous election bills, both of which failed to gain majority support in the Senate last year. Both bills would overturn state election laws that are critical to securing our elections, outlawing basic safeguards such as voter ID requirements while enabling practices like mass ballot trafficking. These bills would make it easier to cheat in U.S. elections and undermine confidence in the electoral process. Heritage Experts: Hans von Spakovsky  and Thomas Jipping

Supreme Court Just Heard Oral Arguments in Vaccine Mandate Cases. Here are the Takeaways — The Supreme Court made it clear that agencies have only the authority that Congress has given them via a duly-enacted statute and that the COVID-19 pandemic does not supply additional statutory power despite its dangerous and deadly consequences. The Medicaid and Medicare health care facility mandate and the OSHA workplace mandate both stem from statutory language that has never been used to require vaccination. Today’s questioning from some justices seemed to indicate that under either law, the government lacks any authority to do so. The court will likely issue an order in the two cases in the very near future either halting the vaccination mandate or allowing them to go forward, with opinions to follow. Whatever the outcome in today’s cases, their consequences promise to reverberate for some time. Heritage Experts: Sarah Marshall Perry and Doug Badger