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The Unsustainable Costs of President Biden’s Climate Agenda <[link removed]> – One of President Biden’s first actions in office was to recommit the United States to the Paris Agreement on global warming. This Backgrounder details the harmful economic implications of doing so by modeling a theoretically efficient carbon tax designed to achieve the Administration’s emissions reduction targets. While the Paris Agreement’s climate impact will be minimal at best, it will impose significant costs on American families and businesses. Instead of implementing an agenda that will decrease Americans’ access to energy and cost trillions, President Biden and Congress should pursue a policy agenda that advances economic freedom, rejects symbolic but ineffective climate policies, and reduces barriers to innovation and economic opportunity. Heritage Expert: Katie Tubb <[link removed]>
Megan Rapinoe Backs Trans Athletes, Says ‘Your Kid’s High School Volleyball Team Just Isn’t That Important’ <[link removed]> - Megan’s statement that “We’re talking about people’s lives. I’m sorry, your kid’s high school volleyball team just isn’t that important” proves she’s not only tone-deaf about the majority of American sentiment on trans sports, but she’s bought the lie that suicide is the natural outcome for kids who can’t transition until they’re older, or are made to compete on teams in alignment with their biology. She’s held herself out to be a role model for young girls, but apparently has a hard time remembering what being a “girl” actually means. Heritage Expert: Sarah Parshall Perry <[link removed]>
Supreme Court Upholds School Choice, Free Exercise in Maine Case <[link removed]> – Maine chose to operate a tuition-assistance program, but explicitly left religious schools out of the program. On Tuesday, the court made it abundantly clear that picking and choosing who receives public benefits that are otherwise available to all, based on whether they are religious or want to use that benefit in a religious way, offends the First Amendment. Now the Supreme Court has put the “status versus use” distinction to rest and simultaneously ruled that your beliefs and values
matter. Heritage Experts: Jonathan Butcher <[link removed]> and Sarah Parshall Perry <[link removed]>
The Biden era is a calamity for the West and the free world <[link removed]> - Perhaps the saddest sight in the world today is the stunning decline of the globe’s sinking superpower. The United States is in free fall, its economy heading towards recession, with soaring inflation, skyrocketing prices for petrol and consumer goods, and a plummeting stock market erasing trillions of dollars from the value of American retirement accounts.... Heritage Expert: Nile Gardiner <[link removed]>
Exemplars for the West <[link removed]> - We face several devaluations of politics that stem from experiences of failure by democratic governments. This has resulted in the anomie and indifference towards politics that many western citizens exhibit. Power seems bereft of moral meaning and is frequently used to benefit an array of special-interest groups and bureaucrats within the government. This observation, empirically accurate in many respects, also issues from certain tendencies of thought in democratic societies. Heritage Expert: Richard M. Reinsch II <[link removed]>
The SEC Should Not Be Setting Corporate Climate Policy <[link removed]> - Of course, some Americans would celebrate the deployment of corporate America against climate change through a disclosure-based regime. That policy has its advocates in Congress. But so far, they have not convinced the American people that it is the right way to go, which is why lawmakers have already refused to enact that policy. The SEC has no business setting a climate policy that the people’s representatives in Congress have rejected. Heritage Experts: Katie Tubb <[link removed]> and Paul Ray <[link removed]>
National View: After Watergate, dirty politics just got more sophisticated <[link removed]> - In 1972, Nixon’s dirty trick failed, and Liddy and his coconspirators all went to prison. The Clinton campaign’s dirty trick failed to win the election. Still, it succeeded in hobbling the Trump presidency and corrupting the Justice Department. Yet no one has gone to prison as a result of what happened in 2016. The cover-up was so successful we didn’t even know about the illegal spying and the politicization of the Justice Department until well after it occurred—and the dirty deed was done. Heritage Expert: Hans A. von Spakovsky <[link removed]>
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