Scribecast: John Fund Explains Why Voter ID Laws Benefit Minorities
Former President Bill Clinton recently compared voter identification laws to Jim Crow-era statutes that suppressed the black vote after the Civil War. “There has never been in my lifetime, since we got...
View ArticleScribecast: Harmon Kaslow Previews ‘Atlas Shrugged Part 2′
It was no coincidence that “Atlas Shrugged Part 1” made its box-office debut on tax day, April 15, earlier this year. So it was only appropriate that the DVD release would fall on Election Day. Harmon...
View ArticleScribecast: Acting ‘Green’ Is Now More Important Than Helping Environment
As environmentalism has become more trendy, the value of appearing green is now more important than helping the environment, argues Todd Myers in a new book called “Eco-Fads.” He spoke at Heritage this...
View ArticleScribecast: Craig Shirley on America’s Transformation in December 1941
This month marks the 70th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor and the U.S. declaration of war on Japan, Germany and Italy. December 1941, according to historian Craig Shirley, transformed America...
View ArticleScribecast: Author Peter Schweizer Exposes the Permanent Political Class
Peter Schweizer doesn’t have many friends on Capitol Hill these days. So few, in fact, that he was told not to even show his face at a congressional hearing on insider trading — even though that...
View ArticlePODCAST: Terrorism in Latin America Threatens U.S.
In this week’s Heritage in Focus, expert Ray Walser discusses the increasingly anti-U.S. policies in Latin America. PODCAST: Terrorism in Latin America Threatens U.S. In the past decade, Iran has...
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Scribecast: Sen. David Vitter on Drilling, Jobs and the Deficit
Few people have been more vocal about the challenges facing offshore drilling in the Gulf of Mexico than Sen. David Vitter. As a Republican from Louisiana, Vitter has firsthand knowledge of the Obama...
View ArticleScribecast: How One Couple Took on EPA and Ended Up at Supreme Court
Mike and Chantell Sackett just wanted to build their dream home in the Idaho panhandle. Instead, they’re headed to the U.S. Supreme Court in a long-running dispute with the Environmental Protection...
View ArticlePODCAST: How Economically Free is America?
In this week’s Heritage in Focus, Heritage’s Kim Holmes, co-author of the annual Index of Economic Freedom, discusses this year’s index. Click here to listen. How does the U.S. rank in economic freedom...
View ArticleScribecast: Patrick Ruffini Explains SOPA’s Unintended Consequences
Few issues before Congress have united online activists like the current debate over the Stop Online Piracy Act in the U.S. House and its Senate companion, the PROTECT IP Act. Both bills attempt to...
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PODCAST: State of the Union
In this week’s Heritage in Focus, Heritage director of communications, Rory Cooper, discusses the president’s State of the Union address. Click here to listen. What’s Heritage’s take on the State of...
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Scribecast: Spirit Airlines CEO Fights New Federal Regulations
The U.S. Department of Transportation imposed new regulations on airlines Jan. 24 that were supposed to benefit consumers. The rules require all government taxes and fees to be included in advertised...
View ArticleScribecast: FrackNation Documentary Seeks the Truth on ‘Fracking’
The anti-fracking documentary “Gasland” has served as a rallying cry for environmentalists seeking to halt hydraulic fracturing, the process used by energy companies to extract petroleum and natural...
View ArticleScribecast: AEI’s Marc Thiessen on Dangers of the Obama Doctrine
President Obama’s use of drone strikes to target terrorists is depleting U.S. intelligence on al Qaeda and making America less safe in the process, according to Marc Thiessen, an American Enterprise...
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Scribecast: Sen. James Inhofe Says Global Warming Is ‘The Greatest Hoax’
In a new book out this week, Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK) traces the history of global warming hysteria and concludes it’s a downright hoax. He also reveals how climate-change champions are benefiting...
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Scribecast: One Year After Earthquake, Japan’s Ambassador Talks Recovery
Tomorrow marks the one-year anniversary of the Great East Japan Earthquake, a massive jolt to the country that caused widespread damage and had ramifications on the economy and energy sector. Japan is...
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Scribecast: Voter ID Proponents Launch Counteroffensive Against DOJ
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder is currently blocking implementation of voter ID laws in South Carolina and Texas. It’s the latest battle in the fight for voter integrity at the ballot box and the...
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PODCAST: Grover Norquist on Taxes, Economic Growth
In a special Heritage podcast, Americans for Tax Reform President Grover Norquist discusses his new book: Debacle, Obama’s War on Jobs and Growth and What We Can Do Now to Regain Our Future. Click...
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Scribecast: NFIB’s Karen Harned on Obamacare at the Supreme Court
Shortly after President Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act into law two years ago, the National Federation of Independent Business joined a lawsuit challenging its...
View ArticlePODCAST: Rep. Steve King on Obamacare, Budget
In a special Heritage podcast, Congressman Steve King (R – IA) discusses Obamacare’s challenge in the Supreme Court and the budget. Click here to listen. In the case the Supreme Court does not rule...
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Scribecast: Rep. Rob Bishop Outlines an Alternative to No Child Left Behind
More than half of states have asked the U.S. Department of Education for a waiver from No Child Left Behind. Ten years after President George W. Bush signed the law, the Obama administration appears...
View ArticleScribecast: Charles Murray Challenges Americans to Get Out of Their Bubble
Charles Murray likes making the upper middle-class a bit uncomfortable. That was exactly the goal of his latest book, “Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010.” Included in it is a popular...
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Scribecast: How Kony 2012 Went Viral
Invisible Children brought worldwide attention to Joseph Kony and his Lord’s Resistance Army with a wildly popular documentary called “Kony 2012.” The 30-minute film depicted Kony’s violent militia in...
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Scribecast: Neal Boortz Reflects on Life in Talk Radio
Talk-radio host Neal Boortz is no fan of the nation’s capital. “The place gives me the creeps,” he said on this week’s Scribecast. Boortz, a self-described libertarian who first visited Washington,...
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Scribecast: Katie Pavlich on the Scandal of Operation Fast and Furious
Katie Pavlich’s new book, “Fast and Furious,” assembles the devastating evidence that implicates the Obama administration for its ill-advised gun-walking operation and ensuing scandal to mislead...
View ArticlePODCAST: Automaker Bailout or UAW Bailout?
In this week’s Heritage in Focus, expert James Sherk discusses the bailout of U.S. automakers. Click here to listen. Why did the United Auto Workers union receive special treatment? How much did the...
View ArticleHeritage Libertad Radio: Hispanic Conservative Talk Radio
Be sure to check out the latest Heritage Libertad podcast. For the English version, click here. For the Spanish version, click here. In this month’s Heritage Libertad podcast, we are happy to welcome...
View ArticleHeritage in Focus: What IS the Debt Ceiling?
Research Coordinator Romina Boccia discusses the phrase “debt ceiling,” which the mainstream media have been focusing on for weeks, and how policymakers can improve our economy going forward on...
View ArticleHeritage in Focus: 40 Years of Abortion (PODCAST)
Research Associate Sarah Torre joins Heritage in Focus to discuss the 40th year of legal abortion in the United States under one of the most hotly contested Supreme Court cases in U.S. history – Roe v....
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Heritage in Focus: Wrapping up School Choice Week (PODCAST)
Heritage’s Lindsey Burke, the Will Skillman Fellow in Education, discusses the benefits of school choice and the events of the third annual School Choice Week being celebrated across the country on...
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