The President’s Message: Op-Eds

The President’s Message: Op-Eds

As president of The Heritage Foundation, Kevin Roberts leads policy research efforts on issues including education, health care, border security, election integrity, and more. His commentary as president is listed below.


2024: 

The Reopening of the American Heart (Oct 30, 2024)

It Is Time to Stop Allocating FEMA Funding to Illegal Immigrants (Oct 21, 2024)

Harris Is Wrong About Project 2025. Our Plan Is Good for America. (Oct 2, 2024)

Secretary Cardona’s Wisconsin Bus Tour Falls Flat. We Need Pro-Parent Policies. (Oct 1, 2024)

The Stories Democrats Tell About Project 2025 (Sep 4, 2024)

Kamala Harris Would Destroy Pennsylvania Energy Jobs (Aug 26, 2024)

Harris Can’t Escape the Human Toll of Her Dismal Border Record (Aug 19, 2024)

It’s Time Republicans Really Put Family First (Aug 5, 2024)

The Stories Democrats Tell About Project 2025 (Jul 30, 2024)

This Independence Day, We Should Remember Those Still Enslaved (Jul 9, 2024)

Looking Forward and Back As the Civil Rights Act Turns 60 (Jul 2, 2024)

Let’s Leave the Hyphen Off Conservatism and Unite (Jun 26, 2024)

Don’t Let the Left Ruin Juneteenth’s True Meaning (Jun 17, 2024)

PaPa Pete’s Patriachy (Jun 16, 2024)

Biden’s Housing Headache (May 31, 2024)

Ukraine Aid Packages Leave Many Unanswered Questions (May 21, 2024)

Why America’s Kids Need To Learn From the Founders via “Classical Schooling” (May 20, 2024)

Playing a Shell Game on Aid to Ukraine (Apr 19, 2024)

Stuck on Failure at the WHO (Apr 12, 2024)

To Protect Kids Online Today, Let’s Rethink This 1990s Law (Mar 14, 2024)

The Senate Immigration Deal Would Only Make the Border Crisis Worse (Feb 15, 2024)

Declining U.S. Military Strength Reveals a Deeper Leadership Crisis (Feb 5, 2024)

What I Learned at Davos: The Future of Democracy Is Secure (Jan 31, 2024)

What Davos Can Expect From a Republican Admin (Jan 23, 2024)

Why I Am Going to Davos (Jan 12, 2024)

Dismantle the Teacher Accreditation Cartel (Jan 9, 2024)

2023:

Congress Must Block Biden’s Open-Borders Insanity. House Can Lead the Way (Dec 29, 2023)

The U.S. Military Went Woke. Time To Make Some Changes at the Top (Dec 6, 2023)

Conservatives’ Cornerstone (Nov 28, 2023)

Iowa Leads the Way on Education Freedom (Nov 14, 2023)

Speaker Johnson Must Return People’s House to Needs of the People (Nov 6, 2023)

Don’t Hold Up Israel Aid to Further Ukraine War Funding (Nov 2, 2023)

An Ailing America Must Adapt to a New World (Oct 24, 2023)

We’re in a New Cold War. It’s Time Our Politicians Acted Like It (Oct 20, 2023)

The “Military-Industrial Complex” and the Right (Oct 12, 2023)

Yellen and Rest of Bidenomics Team Ignore Middle-Class Misery Their Policies Create (Oct 11, 2023)

Podcast: Restoring the American Main Street (Oct 11, 2023)

Podcast: Unleashing Intellectual Firepower: The CLT Revolution (Oct 5, 2023)

Podcast: Dismantling Weaponized Intelligence Agencies (Sep 27, 2023)

Podcast: Revitalizing the Right after a Generation of Decay (Sep 20, 2023)

Biden’s Energy Policy Has the U.S. in Chinese Handcuffs (Sep 14, 203)

Podcast: Keeping America Safe: Conservative National Defense Priorities (Sep 13, 2023)

The “Military-Industrial Complex” and the Right (Sep 12, 2023)

Podcast: On Offense in Oklahoma (Sep 7, 2023)

Unhyphenated Conservatism (Sep 6, 2023)

Podcast: Louisiana’s Lesson on Liberty (Aug 30, 2023)

Podcast: Remembering a Son Lost in Afghanistan (Aug 24, 2023)

Podcast: Former Teammate of Lia Thomas Speaks Out (Aug 16, 2023)

Congress Must Not Hold Hurricane Funds Hostage for More Ukraine War Money (Aug 16, 2023)

DeSantis, Newsom, And The Debate For America (Aug 9, 2023)

Podcast: Powering the American Dream (Aug 2, 2023)

After Racial Preferences, What Comes Next? (Jul 28, 2023)

Podcast: Crushing the Rogue Prosecutor Movement (Jul 27, 2023)

America Must Reclaim What the Left Has Attempted to Destroy (Jul 25, 2023)

Podcast: The Secret Communist Movement Inside America (Jul 19, 2023)

Podcast: The Radical Left’s Biggest Targets (Jul 13, 2023)

Podcast: Using Trade to Safeguard America’s Independence (Jul 7, 2023)

Beyond “Wokeness”: Recovering the Military’s Warrior Ethos (Jun 23, 2023)

Biden Played Politics With Abortion and National Defense. Tuberville Is Right To Fight It. (Jun 22, 2023)

Podcast: Restoring Integrity to the Executive Branch (Jun 22, 2023)

Children Have a Right to Classical Education (Jun 20, 2023)

We Need Committed Dads To Quiet Our Cultural Chaos (Jun 17, 2023)

Podcast: The New Fight for Freedom (Jun 15, 2023)

Biden’s Open Border Policy Fuels Violence Against Women, Children (Jun 9, 2023)

Podcast: The Tyranny of the Administrative State (Jun 7, 2023)

Podcast: Changing America with Classical Education (May 31, 2023)

Burkean Nationalism (May 26, 2023)

Podcast: Defining Real Freedom and Prosperity (May 24, 2023)

Podcast: Taking On the New “Big Government” (May 17, 2023)

Podcast: What Does Effective National Security Look Like? (May 10, 2023)

Podcast: Coach Takes on the Swamp (May 3, 2023)

Podcast: Interview with Governor Ron DeSantis (Apr 27, 2023)

Podcast: An Adoptee’s Pro-Life Message (Apr 19, 2023)

Podcast: How a Former NBA Player Is Taking On the Chinese Communist Party (Apr 12, 2023)

Podcast: Leading With Joy (Apr 5, 2023)

Our Military Is in a Dangerous Decline and This Is the Reason Why (Apr 4, 2023)

Podcast: Is America Still “American?” (Mar 29, 2023)

This is how we win a new Cold War with China (Mar 28, 2023)

Parents’ Bill of Rights Is How Congress Can Help State School Reformers (Mar 24, 2023)

Podcast: TikTok Is a Chinese Data Collection Platform, Not a Harmless Video App (Mar 22, 2023)

The Correct Conservative Approach to Ukraine Shifts the Focus to China (Mar 21, 2023)

Podcast: Why State Legislatures Matter (Mar 16, 2023)

Podcast: Countering Freedom’s Biggest Threat (Mar 9, 2023)

Podcast: Soldier Secretary (Mar 1, 2023)

Podcast: Criminal (In)Justice (Feb 22, 2023)

Podcast: Battle for the American Mind (Feb 15, 2023)

Podcast: Best of Education Freedom (Feb 8, 2023)

Getting Serious About Responsible Defense Spending (Feb 2, 2023)

Podcast: The “New Libertarian” (Feb 1, 2023)

Podcast: Breaking the K-12 Education Monopoly (Jan 26, 2023)

Podcast: The Left’s Crusade to Reengineer American Principles (Jan 18, 2023)

Podcast: You Can’t Replace Family with Government (Jan 11, 2023)

Podcast: The Five Factions of the Republican Party (Jan 6, 2023)

2022:

Podcast: Losing to the Secular State (Dec 21, 2022)

Podcast: The State of Conservatism (Dec 15, 2022)

Conservative Principles Were Made For This Moment (Dec 8, 2022)

The European Union As Seen From Washington (Dec 7, 2022)

Podcast: Creative Destruction and the Conservative Movement (Nov 30, 2022)

Podcast: How Ex-Addict Found Personal Redemption by Helping Impoverished South Dallas Neighborhood (Nov 29, 2022)

Memo to Governors: Make State University Admissions More Charter and Home-School Friendly (Nov 21, 2022)

Republicans Must Fight Biden’s Trillion-Dollar Spending by Refusing To Give In on Debt Limit (Nov 17, 2022)

Podcast: The Gen Z Conservative Counterculture (Nov 16, 2022)

Republican Workhorses Won by Showing Leadership on Key Issues Voters Cared About (Nov 14, 2022)

America’s School Choice Moment Can’t Be Missed at Midterm Elections (Nov 4, 2022)

Podcast: Is the Administrative State Causing American Decline? (Nov 2, 2022)

Podcast: FCC Commissioner on America’s Fight Against Big Tech (Oct 26, 2022)

Podcast: Why We Need More Babies AND More Religion (Oct 13, 2022)

Giorgia Meloni and the Triumph of American Conservatism (Oct 11, 2022)

Podcast: Battling Complacency in Higher Education (Oct 6, 2022)

In Defense of a Foreign-Policy “Third Way” (Oct 5, 2022)

Podcast: Former Chief of U.S. Border Patrol: Every Town is a Border Town (Sep 29, 2022)

Podcast: Arizona’s Gold Standard for Education Freedom (Sep 22, 2022)

Biden’s Paranoid Presidency Delivers Divisiveness to Americans, Not Unity (Sep 16, 2022)

Parents Need Choices To Help Students Overcome COVID-19 Learning Losses (Sep 16, 2022)

Podcast: North Korean Defector Warns Americans: Freedom is Not Free (Sep 15, 2022)

Podcast: On Offense Against Radical Gender Ideology (Sep 8, 2022)

The Left’s Goal of Creating a “New Generation of Drag Kids” (Sep 1, 2022)

Podcast: Ranking Election Integrity in the States (Aug 31, 2022)

Podcast: American Defense: A Perspective of Stewardship (Aug 24, 2022)

Now or Never: We Must Seize the School Choice Moment (Aug 19, 2022)

Podcast: The School Choice Moment (Aug 17, 2022)

Heritage Explains: School Choice Is Defeating Woke Agendas (Aug 15, 2022)

Pro-Lifers Must Learn from Kansas Loss (Aug 15, 2022)

Podcast: Countering the CCP and Getting Education Freedom Across the Finish Line in Texas (Aug 10, 2022)

Let Them Have Inflation (Aug 9, 2022)

The Failure in Uvalde Was Societal (Aug 9, 2022)

Podcast: Fossil Fuels Enable Human Flourishing (Aug 3, 2022)

The Institution of Marriage Cannot Be Erased (Jul 30, 2022)

Podcast: We Don’t Complain About Things, We Fix Them (Jul 28, 2022)

Podcast: Dads Cannot Be Replaced With Government (Jul 21, 2022)

Podcast: The Soul of Politics (Jul 13, 2022)

Podcast: On-Offense in West Virginia (Jul 6, 2022)

After Supreme Court’s Abortion Decision Conservatives Face a New and Even Greater Challenge (Jul 6, 2022)

The Supreme Court’s Fourth of July Bash (Jul 4, 2022)

Podcast: Holding Woke Companies Accountable (Jun 29, 2022)

With Roe v Wade’s Demise, the Abortion Debate Can Finally Begin (Jun 24, 2022)

Podcast: Building a Culture of Life (Jun 22, 2022)

Sorry Libs, You Can’t Replace Dads With Government (Jun 21, 2022)

Podcast: The New Tech Ecosystem (Jun 15, 2022)

Podcast: The Fight for America’s Schools (Jun 8, 2022)

Podcast: The Case for Nationalism and a Religious Revival (Jun 1, 2022)

Podcast: How We Avoid WW3 (May 25, 2022)

No More Congressional Fire Drills (May 24, 2022)

The Future of Conservatism: Community, the Common Good, and State Power (May 24, 2022)

Podcast: The Future of Conservatism, Big Tech, and the SCOTUS Leak (May 18, 2022)

We Have a Duty To Protect the Unborn (May 13, 2022)

Podcast: The Real Clarence Thomas (May 11, 2022)

Parents Are “Sleeping Giants” Who Will Fix American Education (May 11, 2022)

Podcast: Hunter Biden’s Laptop is the Tip of the Iceberg (May 4, 2022)

Podcast: The Tide is Turning on Critical Race Theory (Apr 27, 2022)

Podcast: Exposing the Left’s Hypocrisy on Women’s Health (Apr 20, 2022)

High Gas Prices: The Pain Is the Point (Apr 18, 2022)

Podcast: Why America Needs Better Men (Apr 13, 2022)

Podcast: We Can Save Education. Here’s How. (Apr 6, 2022)

How Conservatives Can Deliver for America (Apr 4, 2022)

Podcast: Crypto Investor Erik Finman’s Warning on Big Tech Tyranny, and Social Credit Systems (Mar 31, 2022)

Podcast: Mike Pompeo’s Take on China & America’s Influence on the World (Mar 23, 2022)

Biden’s Weakness in Ukraine-Russia Conflict Has Only Further Emboldened China in a New Kind of War (Mar 22, 2022)

Podcast: How Biden Paved the Way for Cartels, Drugs & Lawlessness (Mar 16, 2022)

Podcast: What Happened to Journalism? Townhall’s Julio Rosas Offers Insights (Mar 9, 2022)

Economic Freedom, Now More Than Ever (Mar 2, 2022)

Podcast: Fighting for Budget Sanity with Sen. Mike Lee (Mar 2, 2022)

Podcast: Sen. Rick Scott Digs Into the Durham Investigation (Feb 23, 2022)

Podcast: China’s Growing Influence Should Concern You (Feb 16, 2022)

It’s Time To Win the War Against Big Tech (Feb 10, 2022) 

Protecting Unborn Children in a Post-Roe World (Jan 21, 2022)

2021:

A New Way To Protect the Integrity of Our Elections (Dec 20, 2021)

Tomorrow’s Heritage (Dec 3, 2021)


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