Heritage Foundation Leadership for America

January 6, 2009
Conflict in Gaza: Another Case for Directed Energy Defenses
By James Jay Carafano, Ph.D.
(WebMemo #2186)
The new Administration has opportunity to introduce a "game changer" in the current Middle East conflict by helping speed the fielding of prototype directed-energy defenses ...

January 6, 2009
Economic Stimulus: Dos and Don'ts
By Nicola Moore
(WebMemo #2187)
The first order of business for the President-elect and the new Congress is to get the American economy back on track. To that end, Democratic ...

January 6, 2009
Rising Unemployment: Caused by Less New Job Creation, Not by More Layoffs
By James Sherk
(Backgrounder #2223)
U.S. unemployment has risen sharply over the past 18 months to 6.7 percent. Unemployment is rising because employers are creating fewer jobs. Workers entering the ...

January 6, 2009
Promoting the General Welfare Through Civil Justice Reform: A Memo to President-elect Obama
By Hans A. von Spakovsky and Andrew M. Grossman
(Special Report #38)
President-elect Obama, you argued forcefully as a candidate that we need a regulatory and business landscape in which businesses, entrepreneurs, and investors can thrive and ...

January 6, 2009
Securing U.S. Objectives in North Korea: A Memo to President-elect Obama
By Bruce Klingner and Walter Lohman
(Special Report #37)
President-elect Obama, during the campaign you stressed the need for "sustained, direct, and aggressive diplomacy" with North Korea in order to achieve "the complete and ...

January 5, 2009
Bangladesh Election: Major Milestone for Democracy in South Asia
By Lisa Curtis and Nicholas Hamisevicz
(WebMemo #2185)
Bangladeshis went to the polls on December 29 in record numbers and elected the secular Awami League party headed by former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina ...

January 2, 2009
Gaza Cease-Fire Must Halt Hamas Rockets
By James Phillips
(WebMemo #2184)
It is important that the current crisis in Gaza be resolved in a manner that undercuts the capacity of Hamas to continue its cynical and ...

January 2, 2009
Toward an Alternative Strategic Security Posture
By Baker Spring
(WebMemo #2183)
On December 12, the Congressional Commission on the Strategic Posture of the United States released its interim report. If the tentative and general recommendations in ...

December 31, 2008
National Security Resolutions for 2009
By James Jay Carafano, Ph.D.
(WebMemo #2182)
The United States should resolve to help make the world a better place with initiatives that keep Americans safe, free, and prosperous in the coming ...

December 31, 2008
Time to End "Zeroing" in Trade Dumping Calculations
By Daniella Markheim
(WebMemo #2180)
America's refusal to eliminate its practice of "zeroing" in anti-dumping investigations erodes U.S. credibility in multilateral trade negotiations. With the new year should come a ...

December 31, 2008
Indonesian President's Praise of Natsir Raises Questions
By Walter Lohman
(WebMemo #2181)
Indonesian President Bambang Susilo Yudhoyono designated M. Natsir a national hero with a speech in the Indonesian province of West Sumatra. But what did the ...