The Heritage Foundation published a special report with essays from several education experts, detailing the background and the effects of Common Core. Stanley Kurtz, a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, and…
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Republicans Increase Education Spending
Not that that’s a good thing. At the Cato Institute, several conservatives squared off to discuss education reform. David Cleary, Majority Staff Director for the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee attached to the…
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Muslim Voices Against Radical Extremism
At the Heritage Foundation recently, several voices against radical Islam and extreme Islamist ideology stood as a stark contrast to the spokesmen represented in the typical 24-hour news cycle. Naser Khader, a member of parliament…
The Aftermath in Iraq
For about a decade, we have heard that Christians fared better under Saddam Hussein than they ever have since his overthrow so we decided to put the question to a panel of experts. “Well, their…
The Case for Syrian Christians
When the media reported that Ted Cruz wanted to only admit Syrian Christian refugees into the United States, the junior senator from the Lone Star state found himself once again in the midst of a…
American Academia’s War on Due Process
We are still, for the most part, a nation of laws, except on college campuses. At the Heritage Foundation recently, Samantha Harris, director of policy research at the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE),…
Book Review: ‘Truth Overruled’ and the Case for Traditional Marriage
Marriage quality, gay rights and “love is love” are common refrains that the Left uses in order to dismantle traditional marriage as we know it. Heritage Foundation marriage scholar Ryan T. Anderson’s latest book, Truth…
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VIDEO: AIA Author’s Night with Paul Kengor
Here’s the video of our AIA Author’s Night with author and conservative professor Paul Kengor:
Corrosion of Sanctuary Cities
“Sanctuary cities” that refuse to turn over deportable felons to the feds are frequently located in college towns. Yet and still, it’s hard to find academics who will speak ill of them, no matter how…
Too Big to Fail is a Failure
Five years after President Obama signed it into law to address America’s financial crisis, the Dodd-Frank Act and the federal regulations that followed from it are relatively unknown by at least one-third of normal Americans….