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Boris Johnson's exit puts Brexit in danger <[link removed]> - Boris Johnson’s resignation Thursday heralds significant uncertainty for the UK. It will spark a leadership contest within the Conservative Party and lead to a new Prime Minister in office by October, with a probable early general election. This is quite a reversal for Johnson. He has proven in the past to be an electoral winner and a brilliant campaigner, as he demonstrated with the 2016 Brexit referendum and 2019 general election. The British Left will see his departure as a major opportunity to retake power. Heritage Expert: Ted Bromund <[link removed]>
Biden’s Twin Dumpster Fires: Raging Inflation and Open Borders <[link removed]> - Faced with several serious domestic and foreign policy problems all at once, the Biden
administration’s reaction has been so catastrophically incoherent, it’s hard to know whether to blame leftist ideology or just plain incompetence. Inflation hits all of us right now. While the nation is supposed to be grateful for the 16 cents that the White House told us we had saved on food at last year’s July Fourth barbecue, this year, we feel with our own wallets that the prices of housing, food, gas, cars, and other things we all buy are up far more than the average “headline” inflation of nearly 9%. Meanwhile, the effects of rampant illegal immigration are felt insidiously by most of us in crowded schools, the flow of illegal drugs, more expensive health care, and numerous other social costs, but they are hitting especially fast and hard in border communities. Heritage Expert: Simon Hankinson <[link removed]>
How U.S. Allies Can Engage Effectively With The Biden Administration <[link removed]> - In today’s dangerous world, the U.S. can’t afford to write blank checks or any checks that are not in America’s interests. We can’t afford to support a lost cause. So, partners not only have to make the case that supporting their self-defense serves U.S. interests; they must demonstrate a capacity for self-defense and be a net contributor to collective security. Significant self-defense capabilities not only help deter aggression (making sovereign territory a more bitter pill for aggressors to swallow), they increase the likelihood that the U.S. will be a reliable partner. Heritage Expert: James Carafano <[link removed]>
Close enough in education choice no longer good enough <[link removed]> - These learning options have
appropriately set high expectations for the future. Small steps may not be noticed, nor impactful. Policymakers in Georgia, Oklahoma, South Carolina, and Texas have come close in recent years and supportive lawmakers should receive applause for their intent. But “coming close” only merited mention when nearly all other states could only reach that far. Heritage Expert: Jonathan Butcher <[link removed]>
Biden Pension Bailout Protects Union Elites—Not Workers and Retirees <[link removed]>– This is a taxpayer-funded bailout of the worst kind. The Special Financial Assistance Program hands over tens of billions of dollars to the private union pension plan administrators—some of whom are the same people that ran those pensions into the ground—and even uses taxpayer money to keep paying their salaries. The fact that private-union pensions have been allowed to promise $757 billion more in benefits than they set aside to pay is reckless and should be illegal. Millions of people worked decades for what they thought would be a secure pension, but was instead a bill of goods that only propped up unions’ power. 96% of workers and retirees <[link removed]>with multiemployer pensions are in plans that are less than 60% funded. It is only a matter of time before virtually all union pension plans fail, and the CBO has noted <[link removed]> that even the overwhelming majority of plans that receive bailouts will still become insolvent after 2051 when the taxpayer funds run out. Heritage Expert: Rachel Greszler <[link removed]>
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