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A Tale of Three Presidential Houses: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly <[link removed]> - Education doesn’t happen just in a classroom. Every year, millions of Americans visit historic sites to learn about the nation’s past. They may be alarmed to discover that at some places, the critical race theory narrative animates the American story. The legacies of the Founders are being distorted or erased. This is particularly disheartening because preserving historic sites and presidential homes carries with it the special obligation to represent their legacies fairly and in a spirit of gratitude. Heritage Expert: Brenda Hafera <[link removed]>

Is the labor market really as good as the administration says? <[link removed]> – Between out-of-control inflation, ongoing supply chain struggles, the crisis at the southern border, foreign
policy concerns, exploding energy prices, rising crime and a high likelihood that the country is either already or soon will be experiencing stagflation (an inflationary recession), it’s no wonder that Democrats and the Biden administration are talking up the labor market. According to the official jobs numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, private-sector jobs are up by about 140,000 since the low in April 2020, but only four in 10 of those job gains occurred on the Biden administration’s watch, while six in 10 were recovered during the Trump administration. Heritage Expert: Rachel Greszler <[link removed]>

DOJ’s partisan shell game raises ethics issues about Pamela Karlan <[link removed]> - As a tenured law professor at Stanford University, Pamela Karlan earned $1 million a
year. We now know that she stayed on the Stanford payroll, at that same impressive salary, during the entire 17 months she served as the Justice Department’s principal deputy assistant attorney general for civil rights. Ms. Karlan left her DOJ post on July 1, just one day before the department delivered documents to the American Accountability Foundation under a Freedom of Information Act request that revealed her unorthodox and ethically suspect arrangement with the Biden administration. Heritage Expert: Hans von Spakovsky <[link removed]>

Chemical Abortion Is Next Pro-Life Battlefield <[link removed]> - The Supreme Court’s June 24 decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization that “the Constitution does not confer a right to abortion” returned “the authority to regulate abortion … to the people and their elected representatives.” That effort will be more complicated than when the court took that authority away 49 years ago in 1973. According to the Guttmacher Institute, the three-decade trend of declining abortions in the United States is over, primarily because a majority of abortions are by chemicals, rather than surgery. Heritage Expert: Thomas Jipping <[link removed]>

Heritage President: ‘If There Is Any Fight Worth Having, It Is the Fight to Save Marriage and the Family’ <[link removed]> - Marriage is a
foundational bedrock of human society, one that many on the radical left are seeking to undermine and ultimately sweep away. The concept of marriage between a man and a woman is, and must remain, non-negotiable. It is a concept foundational to human flourishing and inherent to men and women as image-bearers of our Creator. And now, more than ever, we need leaders who will stand up for these basic truths. The bad-faith effort in Congress to weaponize marriage disrespects our fundamental institutions and divides Americans in a quest to score cheap political points, no matter the social consequences. It emanates from the left’s unceasing desire to silence and punish those whose views it finds objectionable or outdated. Heritage Experts: Jay Richards <[link removed]> and Roger Severino <[link removed]>

Republican AGs sue US agency over LGBTQ school guidance <[link removed]> - In the same way that a TN federal court just halted enforcement of the Department of Education’s “technical
assistance”/informal guidance on Title IX’s expansion of “sex discrimination” to include discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity, thereby returning the Department of Education to its Trump-era position on Title IX until a new rule is formalized, these attorneys general are hopeful the same result will be reached with their suit against the USDA, an
agency that also enforces Title IX in federally funded schools. This administration has made sexual politics its raison d’etre and this federal lawsuit is the newest brick in the wall separating America from Biden’s runaway Administrative state. At the President’s request, the federal government has taken the 2020 Supreme Court decision, Bostock v Clayton County (which held that Title VII’s prohibition against sex discrimination in employment also included discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity) and run with it, this second lawsuit in 2 weeks will hopefully force the White House to reconsider its
attempts to usurp congressional lawmaking authority, and shoehorn its radical agenda through American public schools. Heritage Expert: Sarah Parshall Perry <[link removed]>

School Meals Bill Serves Up 2 Unappetizing Helpings of Left’s Agenda <[link removed]> - In general, this proposed legislation would turn a means-tested welfare
program into one that doesn’t even bother to look at means (i.e., need). It uses a program designed to help children as a way to push unrelated ideological objectives. The bill is also a slap in the face of American farmers and ranchers, and littered with policies that reflect a rejection of American agricultural practices, from how crops are grown to how animals are treated. It’s yet another extremist effort to use federal policy to promote an anti-meat agenda, including by trying to indoctrinate kids into being anti-meat and to eat accordingly. Heritage Expert: Daren Bakst <[link removed]>





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