John W. York, Ph.D., is a policy analyst in the B. Kenneth Simon Center for Principles and Politics at The Heritage Foundation.
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Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey recently announced that the social media platform will no longer run political advertisements of any kind. Twitter is a private company… Read More
SocietyCommentary
For those who want to fundamentally transform our nation, the first order of business is to thoroughly discredit our past. For decades, progressives have claimed… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
The Electoral College is under fire. Again. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., recently proposed killing it on the grounds that the presidential selection mechanism leads candidates… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
The largest federal employee union in the country is suing the Office of Special Counsel over a seemingly mild exhortation to career bureaucrats: Please do… Read More
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During Tuesday night’s Democratic presidential debate, Pete Buttigieg proposed a raft of supposed “reforms” that have, until recently, been the provenance of fringe groups and… Read More
EconomyCommentary
Public-sector unions and their progressive allies just lost a major battle in their ceaseless legal campaign against this president. Last summer, one district court judge… Read More
EconomyCommentary
To constrain the growth of central government, conservatives have fought to keep down the number of federal bureaucrats. This strategy has failed. Since the 1960s,… Read More
EconomyCommentary
The Environmental Protection Agency announced a new collective bargaining agreement last week that has outraged the main labor union representing EPA employees. According to the… Read More
EconomyCommentary
In a strange twist, a provision in the Trump administration’s 2020 budget to increase retirement benefits for many federal employees has public-sector unions outraged. This… Read More
LawCommentary
The Electoral College is under fire. Again. Delaware last week joined 12 other states that have pledged to award their Electoral College votes to the… Read More
EconomyCommentary
The Senate’s failure to consider President Donald Trump’s appointees is affecting more than just the federal judiciary. That abdication of responsibility has now left one… Read More
EconomyCommentary
The Senate’s 2019 budget contains an across-the-board salary hike of about 1.9 percent for all federal employees. That is not good news. Though modest and deficit-neutral—the… Read More
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Americans should be thankful not only for the rare genius that assembled in Philadelphia in 1787 to draft the Constitution, but for the unique circumstances… Read More
EconomyCommentary
President Donald Trump issued three executive orders earlier this year aimed at reining in the federal bureaucracy. But late last month, in a textbook case… Read More
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Repealing the 17th Amendment, which would end the direct election of U.S. senators and return the power of appointing senators to state legislatures, is a popular… Read More
EconomyCommentary
For one of the most punitive agencies in the federal government, the IRS sure is forgiving with its own employees. Rep. Kristi Noem, R-S.D., has… Read More
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Holding federal employees accountable is essentially impossible. They have the highest job security of any sector of the economy. In fact, out of a federal… Read More
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President Donald Trump’s administration released a plan June 21 that, if enacted, would impose some order on the sprawling administrative state—something that is long overdue…. Read More
EconomyCommentary
When President Donald Trump recently issued three executive orders that made it easier to fire poorly performing government employees, the backlash from public-sector unions was… Read More
EconomyCommentary
The firing of FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe days before his retirement was a rare case of justice. Both the Justice Department inspector general and… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
Early in his administration, President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing all 15 of the departments of the federal government to submit plans within… Read More
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Among the many sensible proposals President Donald Trump called for during his first State of the Union address, one certainly deserves more attention than it… Read More
SocietyCommentary
For much of the 19th century, Thanksgiving was celebrated only by New Englanders and Northeastern transplants in the upper Midwest and New York. Without the… Read More
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In March, President Donald Trump issued an executive order to spur a comprehensive reorganization of the executive branch. It instructed each federal department head to… Read More
LawCommentary
Many liberals point to the rising price tag of American political campaigns to support calls for campaign finance reform. According to Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt.,… Read More
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The recent electoral race between Republican Karen Handel and Democrat Jon Ossoff in Georgia’s 6th Congressional District was the most expensive ever for a seat… Read More
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In his first public remarks since the election, White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon recently told a packed house at the Conservative Political Action Conference… Read More
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Some Americans think state boundaries and the principle of federalism are outdated relics from the past. They couldn’t be further from the truth. New data… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Hillary Clinton won the popular vote, but lost the Electoral College—and it’s driving progressives nuts. The renewed calls to abandon the “antiquated” and “undemocratic” Electoral… Read More
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This Constitution Day, we celebrate the 229th year since our Constitution’s signing. For many Americans, the durability of our founding document is a point of… Read More
