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For 14 years, a U.N. panel of experts documented evidence of North Korea’s nuclear violations and monitored U.N. member states’ enforcement of sanctions. Now, thanks to Russia’s veto of the annual reauthorization of that panel, this window into Pyongyang’s activity has been closed.
Russia’s action eliminates an important means to induce international action against North Korea’s repeated transgressions. In response, the U.S. must enforce its laws more diligently and lead an international coalition to comprehensively target Pyongyang and its accomplices.
Beginning in 2006, the U.N. Security Cou ..read more
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President Joe Biden is trying to have it both ways with his post Oct. 7 Israel policy. It won’t work, especially after Iran’s game-changing attack on the Jewish state over the weekend.
Biden still claims to “stand with Israel.” But he doesn’t want to stand with Israel too much because he risks losing the votes of those who support the Palestinians—including, apparently, his own wife. So now he’s encouraging Israel to stand down instead of standing up to the Iranians.
Consider too what his administration has been doing at the United Nations. Ambassador Lisa Thomas-Greenfield ab ..read more
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Like others around the country, the Rockford, Michigan, Public School District requires parental permission for many things that affect their children’s safety, education, and personal wellbeing. But during the 2021-22 school year, acting on nothing more than a seventh-grade girl’s email to a school counselor and without notifying her parents, East Rockford Middle School personnel began treating her as a boy and allowing her access to all boys-only school facilities. They actively concealed the situation from the girl’s parents, and even altered school records that the parents might see.
Such ..read more
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January 2021 marked the beginning of an illegal immigration boom in the United States, which has led to a drastic increase in violent crime across the country. In many cases, the criminal aliens were present not in spite of federal, state, or local policy but because of intentional policy choices advanced by the left.
Heritage’s new data visualization tool, “Border Insecurity and Lax Law Enforcement Lead to Preventable Crime,” showcases the very real harm being caused to Americans across the country by open border and soft-on-crime policies. Drawing from this tool, our program will highlight ..read more
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Join us for the official launch of Dr. Corey DeAngelis’ new book, The Parent Revolution, in which he unapologetically argues why parents and political leaders must lean into the culture war taking place in schools. Dr. DeAngelis exposes the hypocritical elites who are content to hold other people’s children captive to poorly run government schools while sending their own children to the best private and charter schools out there. And most importantly, he equips readers with the ability to make sure the potent forces of the educational industrial complex don’t regain their footing.
Dr. De ..read more
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In January, I had the opportunity to observe Taiwan’s presidential and legislative elections. What I saw was a model for democratic systems everywhere. Particularly impressive were the quick, orderly process by which voters filed through polling stations and the efficient and transparent way votes were counted and a winner was announced.
Hours after the polls closed on January 13, crowds gathered outside the headquarters of the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) to celebrate Lai Ching-te’s election. Conspicuously absent were the widespread accusations of fraud and voter suppression that ..read more
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Despite inflation-adjusted incomes falling dramatically since January 2021, Americans are buying more than ever. That may sound like a contradiction, but it’s perfectly possible, at least in the short run. Americans today, especially the young, are just “bougie broke.”
That’s a fancy way of saying people have given up on saving, investing and planning for their future, so they spend every last dime in hedonistic pleasure-seeking. Ironically, the sky-high cost of living is what drives people to spend frivolously.
Between higher home prices and higher interest rates, the monthly mortgage payment ..read more
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Sometimes, the answer to the question “Why do people do bad things?” is simply because they can. In the case of South Africa, they can because bad behavior has been richly rewarded with billions of dollars in U.S. foreign aid and trade preferences.
Its list of misdeeds is long.
Consider South Africa’s illegal arms supply to Russia. It prompted a rare public U.S. rebuke last year after the U.S. Embassy warned it that a Russian ship docked at one of its military ports. The ship that would transport the arms was under U.S. sanctions. Pretoria’s response? South Africa held a ten-day joint naval ex ..read more
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Confidence in Western financial markets has already been shaken enough by the 20% devaluation of the dollar over the last few years. But now the European Commission wants to hand Ukraine $300 billion seized from Russia. Doing so likely would sound the death knell for the dollar and eventually the euro.
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, who has worked for literally decades to undermine the strength of the dollar, recently urged world leaders to take this disastrous step of outright theft.
But financial leaders worldwide, including those who adamantly support Ukraine, are sounding the alarm, citi ..read more
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Many Americans think of the surge in southern border crossings and the threat from China as two completely different issues. They shouldn’t.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection recently revealed that at least 22,000 Chinese nationals have attempted to cross our southern border unlawfully since Oct. 1. Illegal immigration by the Chinese via the U.S.-Mexico border is soaring because of the Biden administration’s lax policies.
The number of Chinese nationals encountered at our southern border since last October is unprecedented. Data reveals that immigration authorities typically encounter between ..read more