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Homeland Security’s Rebooted Disinformation Plan Is No Better Than the First <[link removed]> – Constitutionalists, free-speech lovers, and sane people alike cheered upon hearing the announcements <[link removed]> that the Department of Homeland Security was disbanding its nascent Disinformation Governance
Board <[link removed]> and the board’s designated head, Nina Jankowicz, was resigning. The reasons why are obvious: The federal government has no business determining what is truth, it is nowhere near the mission of Homeland Security, and Jankowicz had a consistently wrong record of identifying “disinformation.” But Americans should take no comfort in the fact that the Biden administration’s efforts to censor information from within DHS and elsewhere will end. In fact, the administration has announced that former Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff and former U.S. Deputy Attorney General Jamie Gorelick will take the baton from Jankowicz and continue down the disinformation track. This plan is no better than the first one. Heritage Experts: Lora Ries <[link removed]> and James
Carafano  <[link removed]>
How Policymakers Can Address Baby Formula Shortage <[link removed]> – The Biden administration and Congress must immediately end harmful policies that prevent the market from meeting the needs of American families. This shortage is an utter failure by the Biden administration to heed warnings last year about the coming shortage, or work with Congress on reforms to prevent it. It is also a real-world, tangible consequence of Biden’s reckless economic policies. The administration failed to take meaningful action to mitigate the coming shortage from last September through February, by which point out-of-stock rates had hit 26%. The Food and Drug Administration also pressured Abbott Nutrition to close its Michigan plant, without first ensuring that an adequate supply of formula would be available. Instead of solving their own crisis, House Democrats passed a messaging bill that would only send more money to the same regulators in D.C. that shut down production. Heritage Experts: Mike Howell <[link removed]> and Rachel Greszler  <[link removed]>
Biden must urge South Korea and Japan to assume larger regional security roles  <[link removed]>- In a
new report <[link removed]> Heritage’s senior research fellow Bruce Klingner <[link removed]> and Jeff Smith <[link removed]> layout how President Biden should use his trip to South Korea and Japan, “to affirm, augment, and accelerate recent positive trends in both alliances and the increasingly relevant
Quad grouping. Biden’s Asia trip should really be about: an America First foreign policy that confronts the greatest existential threat to the West – the Chinese Communist Party. Strong alliances in the Indo–Pacific better position the U.S. to confront and overcome China. Heritage Experts: Bruce Klingner <[link removed]>, Dean Cheng <[link removed]>, and Walter Lohman  <[link removed]>
 
Proposed Amendment to ‘China Bill’ Would Wrongly Reward Unprofitable
Investments <[link removed]> – If someone can’t manage his or her own financial affairs, it’s a good bet they’d manage other people’s finances badly, too. Given that the federal government has racked up an enormous $30 <[link removed]> trillion of debt—$6 trillion in just the past two years—nobody should
trust that federal legislators know the first thing about sound investing. Case in point: As congressional committees continue to debate differences between the House and Senate versions of the America COMPETES Act, the so-called China bill <[link removed]>, some lawmakers are pushing to include tax laws that would blatantly subsidize unprofitable private investments. On top of the $50 billion <[link removed]> of direct subsidies for semiconductor companies already packed into the 3,000-page, $350 billion <[link removed]> omnibus package, the Senate Finance Committee’s chairman and ranking member—Sens. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Michael Crapo, R-Idaho, respectively—want <[link removed]> to add another massive subsidy disguised as a tax credit
to build semiconductor manufacturing facilities. Heritage Expert: Preston Brashers <[link removed]>
 
Law students are not OK: The legal profession’s leftward
lean <[link removed]> – Equality under the law is a bedrock principle of our society and our legal system — or at least it used to be. Unfortunately, many today have embraced the idea of equity, meaning the equality of outcomes instead of the equality of opportunity under the law. The pursuit of equity necessarily involves discriminating against some to favor others. Rather than pushing back against this discriminatory idea, the nation’s oldest voluntary legal organization, the American Bar Association <[link removed]>, has
embraced it. Heritage Expert: Zack Smith <[link removed]>
 
US Army may be ‘equitable,’ but it’s not ready for combat <[link removed]> – Americans are used to picturing Army combat soldiers as incredibly tough individuals, able to run faster and do
more pushups than most people. In today’s Army, though, that notion is officially passé. At a recent Senate hearing, we learned that Army physical fitness has been sacrificed on the altar of gender equity, a move that former infantryman Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., noted, will “get soldiers killed.”Heritage Expert: Thomas Spoehr <[link removed]>
 
Here’s The New Left-Wing Theory Parents Are Fighting In
Schools <[link removed]> – SEL injects concepts “very neatly into somewhat ambiguous topics of social interactions and emotional feelings” through “really nice words” that sound
innocuous until you realize what they actually mean has become the national authority on the concept and many of its materials include all of the same ideas behind CRT and “critical gender theory.” Heritage Expert: Jonathan Butcher  <[link removed]>
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