What now? The entire conservative movement must work to uphold Charlie Kirk’s legacy by fighting (figuratively) for the American people or else give up this country, says Heritage President Dr. Kevin Roberts. The time is now.

• “Now is a time for every American to pray, for sure. But it’s also time for every single one of us to get involved—and never allow the radical Left to win again,” wrote Kevin Roberts on X.
• The photo above shows a seven-story banner honoring Charlie Kirk mounted on the side of The Heritage Foundation headquarters building on Capitol Hill. 

Listen to Roberts on the Heritage Explains podcast here, and on The Will Cain Show here.

Back to the beginning: Heritage just released the third edition of its “Guide to the Constitution,” which explains every clause of the Constitution as envisioned by the Framers and as applied in contemporary law.

• At the launch event, Heritage Vice President Derrick Morgan said he hopes the new edition will “rekindle in our fellow citizens and in each of us a deepening love of our constitution.”

Order your copy of the Guide here.

No half measures: Heritage technology and China experts oppose a potential TikTok deal that would let China retain some control of the popular social media platform.

• “TikTok is a weapon of the Chinese Communist Party,” said Wes Hodges, acting director of the Center for Technology and the Human Person.
• “A halfway deal that leaves a backdoor open for Beijing…should be rejected,” Hodges said.

Read Heritage’s statement here.

Ahead of his time: The Heritage Foundation is encouraging President Trump to honor Patrick Buchanan with the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

• Buchanan “foresaw, long before others, nearly every political crisis and cultural challenge that animates the country today,” write Heritage President Dr. Kevin Roberts and Rep. Riley Moore.
• Last week, Heritage released a video supporting Buchanan for this honor.

Read The Daily Signal piece here.

Call to action: Heritage marked 60 years of the Moynihan report, which outlined the challenges faced by black families in America.

• Black leaders came together in three panels to discuss the Moynihan report and the road ahead.
• Delano Squires, research fellow at Heritage, also released his report “Moving Beyond Moynihan: A New Blueprint to Revive Marriage and Rebuild the Black Family.”

Watch the event here.

America’s Founding Fathers are endlessly fascinating figures, and we all have a duty to learn about them.

• That’s why we published American Founders: Leaders at the Creation of the Republic.
• In this free eBook, you’ll learn how the Founders created the greatest nation in the world, and delve deep into the lives of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and others.

Click here to get your free copy today!

America first: The Trump administration has a plan to restore the manufacturing base and bring jobs back to America.

• The One Big Beautiful Bill Act, “encourages domestic investment and manufacturing, providing tax certainty and removing upfront tax penalties on innovation,” write Richard Stern, director of the Hermann Center for the Federal Budget, and Ethan Xu, former member of Heritage’s Young Leaders Program.

Read more here.

Peace: Five years ago, President Trump brokered the Abraham Accords, which remain one of the most important American foreign policy achievements in history. 

• At the signing ceremony, Trump described the accords as “the dawning of a new era in the Middle East.”
• Heritage published a Five Year Report on the accords and produced a special video about their importance narrated by Amb. Mike Huckabee.

Read the report here. Watch the video here.

Biased: Heritage Senior Research Fellow Jay Greene unearthed data showing that National Institutes of Health (NIH) grants go to only a small number of—primarily Democratic-represented—congressional districts.

• Institutions in these districts also tend to be in expensive cities and charge taxpayers higher overhead costs for research grants. “The NIH has been hijacked to advance political agendas,” Greene writes in The Daily Signal.

See the chart for yourself here. 

Rethinking Nutrition Guidelines and Chronic Disease

 

Can food itself play a role in reversing chronic disease? Experts will examine how dietary guidelines are developed, where they fall short, how they could better serve public health, and will connect the latest science on fats, carbohydrates, and nutrient-dense diets to practical policy implications.

 

Sept. 23, 10 a.m. Register here.

• How America Can Beat China and Herald a New Golden Age—Derrick Morgan
• Five Things That Explain the Hyundai Immigration Debacle—Simon Hankinson
• Report: Moving Beyond Moynihan: A New Blueprint to Revive Marriage and Rebuild the Black Family—Delano Squires
• To Achieve Lasting Middle East Peace, We Must Expand the Abraham Accords—Asher Fredman
• Trump’s D.C. Crime Success Puts Spotlight on Chicago’s Deadly ‘War Zone’—Charles “Cully” Stimson
• When A President Defies the Courts—Hans von Spakovsky
• The Black Family Blueprint—Delano Squires
• Charlie Kirk Understood Conservatives Need to Take Back Academia—Mike Gonzalez
• Disguising DEI: Schools Keep Trying to Push a Discredited Ideology—Jonathan Butcher

There’s an easy way for sanctuary cities to have fewer ICE agents in their neighborhoods, Lora Ries, director of the Border Security and Immigration Center, told News Nation. Simply cooperate with federal agents in “turning over the worst of the worst” to federal agents. Watch the clip here.