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America COMPETES: The House “China Bill” <[link removed]> - The House of Representatives is poised to pass the America COMPETES Act, the House’s legislative response to the Senate’s United States Innovation and Competition Act, formerly known as the Endless Frontier Act. Both proposals are ostensibly aimed at countering the China threat, but the House version has very little to do with actual China policy. Despite a handful of useful foreign policy and security provisions, the act’s overwhelming impact would be to undermine America’s ability to compete effectively with China. Heritage Experts: Dean Cheng <[link removed]>, Olivia Enos <[link removed]>, and Walter Lohman <[link removed]>
You’re Not Crazy. The New Left Really Is At War With Reality <[link removed]> - In debates about critical race theory and other manifestations of identity politics, Americans are being confronted with a particularly virulent form of Marxism, which some call cultural Marxism. Its adherents think they can create a new reality, because at bottom they do not believe in objective nature. Conservatives engaged in an important conversation over the exact proportion of natural law and natural rights must ensure their attention is not diverted from sworn opponents who deny the existence of either. Heritage Expert: Mike Gonzalez <[link removed]>
China should never have been allowed to host the 2022 Olympics <[link removed]> - This is a global failure to hold the Chinese Communist Party
accountable.Moving or postponing the Olympics would have sent the message that there are major consequences for committing genocide and crimes against humanity. The Biden administration failed to lead a global effort to shed light on the CCP’s grave human rights abuses, genocide against the Uyghurs, and coronavirus cover-up. The 2022 Olympics represented a major opportunity to shame the CCP and put global pressure on the regime. Both during and following the games, the U.S. must capitalize on growing domestic and international political will to hold China accountable for its many human rights abuses. Heritage Experts: Dean Cheng <[link removed]> and Olivia Enos <[link removed]>
Why parents need choices in education to protect their values <[link removed]> - A U.S. Supreme Court ruling in 2020 in favor of parents who choose private schools for their children and a state attorney general’s opinion in 2021 protecting the American ideals of freedom and opportunity in the classroom are giving a boost to parents trying to meet their child’s unique learning needs. One year after the ruling, commentators would dub 2021 the “year of school choice” as lawmakers in 19 states either created or expanded public and private school learning options for students. Parents looking for quality learning options for their children today stand between their desire for students to succeed and their belief that their ideas and values—religious or otherwise—should still matter. And that they should not have to set their beliefs aside when they choose how and where their child will learn or bring concerns to a school board. Heritage Expert: Jonathan Butcher <[link removed]>
Meet Alvin Bragg, Rogue Prosecutor Whose Policies Are Wreaking Havoc in Manhattan <[link removed]> - Manhattan’s new district attorney has implemented new pro-criminal policies that undercut the mayor’s and police commissioner’s mandate—just like all the other rogue prosecutors <[link removed]> we have been warning about for almost two years. Alvin Bragg has taken his policies directly from the rogue prosecutor movement’s required playbook. Bragg’s policies are so bad—and dangerous—that the new police commissioner—Keechant Sewell—felt compelled <[link removed]> to warn about their dire consequences.Sewell knows, as we have been warning, that cities that have elected rogue prosecutors have seen a dramatic increase in violent crime and crime overall, and her city will look like those others if Bragg acts like the other rogues. Bragg’s policies are likely to lead to the same mayhem in Manhattan, at a time when the borough and the city can least afford it. Heritage Experts: Zack Smith <[link removed]> and
Cully Stimson <[link removed]>
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