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4 Reasons Why Americans Should Care About the Situation in Ukraine <[link removed]> - Don’t believe any false narratives saying the U.S. shouldn’t care about what is happening in Ukraine. The U.S. cannot ignore the situation. When you consider the factors outlined above, the situation hits close to home. What happens with Ukraine affects us all. Americans should care about Ukraine not just because we could be hit with higher gasoline prices or grocery bills, but because Ukraine is a partner of the United States, and we cannot let it down <[link removed]>. The world is taking note. Heritage Expert: Alexis
Mrachek <[link removed]>
How Government Is Adding to, Not Solving, Labor Shortages in Health Care and Elsewhere <[link removed]> - Easing the broader, nationwide labor shortage <[link removed]> requires shifting people from government dependency to productivity and self-sufficiency. That requires policymakers ensure that work pays and that not working doesn’t. They can do that by limiting taxes, enabling larger natural wage increases, opening more doors to flexible income opportunities, and orienting America’s entitlement and welfare programs toward work. Heritage Expert: Rachel Greszler <[link removed]>
Why Tech Totalitarianism Threatens To Turn America Into Canada Or China Unless We Stop It <[link removed]> - A comprehensive agenda <[link removed]> to end Big Tech’s undue influence over Americans’ daily lives and subversion of their rights is necessary. Measures should confront legitimate anti-competitive behavior by these global oligopolies by enforcing antitrust laws and reforming them where necessary. Lawmakers must also ensure that the government does not continue to use tech companies as their agents to chill speech. Transparency in content moderation practices, algorithmic impacts, and data use should be non-negotiable for these companies. Americans have a right to know how their data is collected, stored, and shared in plain English. Big Tech companies are actively eroding citizens’ ability to maintain a
self-governing republic. Absent drastic measures to arrest the progress of this march toward totalitarianism with a tech face, we risk the welfare of a nation. It must end here. Heritage Expert: Kara
Frederick <[link removed]>
Faulty Assumptions About the Global Nuclear Threat May Require Changes in U.S. Sea-Based Nuclear Force <[link removed]>- If the United States is to sustain a viable national strategic deterrent force against rapidly expanding threats, the
assumptions made in 2010 regarding the Columbia-class submarine must be revisited. Most important is the need to reconsider how many of these submarines will be needed and what their submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) capacity per hull will need to be relative to a diversified threat that includes North Korea and a potentially nuclear Iran. Finally, in the immediate future, plans to field a sea-launched cruise missile-nuclear (SLCM-N) to meet emerging targeting requirements should be accelerated. Heritage Expert: Patty-Jane Geller <[link removed]> and Brent Sadler <[link removed]>
Colorado Is Again Trying to Compel a Wedding Vendor’s Speech. Supreme Court Has a Chance to Defend Freedom <[link removed]> - Some U.S. Court of Appeals have a long history of issuing decisions that are demonstrably hostile to wedding artists seeking to exercise their First Amendment rights. Whether for wedding flowers <[link removed]> or for custom designed wedding cakes <[link removed]>, these courts have repeatedly circumvented the rights of business owners to both practice their religious freedom and refuse to affirm messages that contradict their religious beliefs in the provision of their unique services. It is high time the Supreme Court resolved this ongoing standoff between same-sex
marriage and the First Amendment, so that vendors like Smith can earn a living while staying true to their religious beliefs. Heritage Expert: Sarah Parshall Perry <[link removed]>
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