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Is NVIDIA Putting America’s National Security at Risk? | Jeff Smith

You don't need me to tell AI is a humanity defining advancement. It is rapidly transforming everyday life, sometimes for better, sometimes for worse. You also don't need

A Tough Night for Conservatives: Now What? | Steve Chartan

Heritage co-founder Dr. Ed Feulner had a well-known saying. “In Washington, there are no permanent victories or permanent defeats.”   But victories and defeats there are

BONUS | Can American Foster Care Be Fixed? | Alex Adams

Washington has a really bad habit of mistaking paperwork for progress. In some places, like the billion forms needed to get a driver's license, this is simply annoying.

How Did We Get Truck Drivers Who Can’t Speak English? | Lora Ries

Every day, my wife takes our two young boys to their activities a few miles from our house in the family car. As she drives, she shares the road with gargantuan 40-ton tr

BONUS | How Can We Succeed Where USAID Failed? | Ben Black

You'd be forgiven if you'd never heard of the US International Development Finance Corporation. Even by Washington standards, DFC sounds like an agency specifically desig

Is France a Warning for the West? | Laura LaCombe

Last week, Heritage Explains spoke with Director of the Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom at The Heritage Foundation, Nile Gardiner, about the riots rocking France. In

Why is France on Fire? | Nile Gardiner

It’s a day ending in Y in France, which means rioting.   Following in the spirit of 1789, the French are burning buildings, fighting the police, and overall behaving ver

Are We Winning the War on Fraud? | Dan Kowalski

Washington has spent decades proving the bigger government gets, the more money it wastes and the less accountable it becomes.  The infamous Minnesota “learing centers,”

Should We be Friends With China? | Jeff Smith

For the better part of a decade, China has played the role of America’s greatest long-term strategic competitor.   American foreign politicos have long advised a pivot to

Is AI Going to Wipe Out Humanity? | Jay Richards

I was eight years old when my family got our first home computer. I remember this hulking grey Dell computer taking up massive amounts of space on the desk, and I remembe

How Do We Fix America's Elections? | Ken Cuccinelli

As stories about non-citizen voting and voter fraud become disturbingly common, Americans are beginning to lack confidence in our elections. The debate over the elections

Can America Keep the Lights On? | Jack Spencer

Energy is the nucleus of everything. The oil that powers our cars, the natural gas heating out homes, and the nuclear keeping the lights on: it’s all tied back to energy

How do We Make the American Dream Affordable Again? | John Gibbs

A few weeks ago, conservative online discourse was focused on the price of a burrito. Yes, the Vice President of the United States, along with the right’s most celebrated

How Prepared Is America for a More Dangerous World? | Bob Peters

New York Times journalist James Reston once quipped that "This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim."  Ne

Why Did AOC Freeze Her Eggs? A New Look at Fertility | Marguerite Duane

Fertility is often framed as a women's issue, but do men have any place in the conversation? In this episode of Heritage Explains, Heritage Action's Doug Blair sits down

Did Communists Kill Portland, OR? | Mike Gonzales

Portland was once held up as a model of urban America: a walkable, vibrant city known for parks, restaurants, breweries, and a thriving downtown. Today, record office va

Re-run | What is the Save America Act? | Chip Wyatt & Dan West

This epsiode originally aired on February 11th, 2026. Enjoy! Washington is abuzz with talk of the SAVE America act, a piece of legislation that is designed to secure Ame

BONUS | The Supreme Court’s Biggest Hits | Cully Stimson & Zack Smith

The last Supreme Court term was a very busy and consequential one. With decisions from redistricting to birthright citizenship to boys in girls’ sports, many cases made h

What’s in the Biden Tapes? | Mike Howell

For much of the 2024 presidential campaign, Biden supporters as well as legacy media insisted that the president was mentally sharp and fully competent to execute his dut

Defending American Sovereignty After the Birthright Citizenship Case | Roger Severino

When President Trump took office in January of 2025, he signed 26 executive orders on the first day. In that pile of executive orders was one entitled: Protecting the Mea