A podcast that explains major policy issues at a 101 level. Experts from America's leading public policy organization break down major news stories and policy debates raging in culture and Congress alike.
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Signup to Generate a PitchA podcast that explains major policy issues at a 101 level. Experts from America's leading public policy organization break down major news stories and policy debates raging in culture and Congress alike.
Recent episodes include "How Did We Get Truck Drivers Who Can’t Speak English? | Lora Ries" (28 October 2026, 19 minutes), "BONUS | How Can We Succeed Where USAID Failed? | Ben Black" (24 October 2026, 17 minutes), and "Is France a Warning for the West? | Laura LaCombe" (21 October 2026, 22 minutes).
Heritage Explains publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 23 minutes.
Booking probability for Heritage Explains is 38%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Heritage Explains requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Heritage Explains's contact route on record: verified email.
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Every day, my wife takes our two young boys to their activities a few miles from our house in the family car. As she drives, she shares the road with gargantuan 40-ton trucks. We assume the people behind the wheel have...
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You'd be forgiven if you'd never heard of the US International Development Finance Corporation. Even by Washington standards, DFC sounds like an agency specifically designed to make your eyes glaze over, but push past...
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Last week, Heritage Explains spoke with Director of the Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom at The Heritage Foundation, Nile Gardiner, about the riots rocking France. In the few days since our interview, things have...
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It’s a day ending in Y in France, which means rioting. Following in the spirit of 1789, the French are burning buildings, fighting the police, and overall behaving very poorly. This time, the revolutionaries are...
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Washington has spent decades proving the bigger government gets, the more money it wastes and the less accountable it becomes. The infamous Minnesota “learing centers,” incident showed how craven many fraudsters are...
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For the better part of a decade, China has played the role of America’s greatest long-term strategic competitor. American foreign politicos have long advised a pivot to Asia as Washington slaps tariffs on Chinese goods...
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I was eight years old when my family got our first home computer. I remember this hulking grey Dell computer taking up massive amounts of space on the desk, and I remember thinking to myself how amazing technology was...
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As stories about non-citizen voting and voter fraud become disturbingly common, Americans are beginning to lack confidence in our elections. The debate over the elections process has taken on a renewed urgency given we...
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Energy is the nucleus of everything. The oil that powers our cars, the natural gas heating out homes, and the nuclear keeping the lights on: it’s all tied back to energy policy. Reliable energy is essential to both...
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A few weeks ago, conservative online discourse was focused on the price of a burrito. Yes, the Vice President of the United States, along with the right’s most celebrated minds, were arguing over whether a burrito...
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New York Times journalist James Reston once quipped that "This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim." Never have those words been truer than now. The...
Fertility is often framed as a women's issue, but do men have any place in the conversation? In this episode of Heritage Explains , Heritage Action's Doug Blair sits down with Dr. Marguerite Duane to discuss the...
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Portland was once held up as a model of urban America: a walkable, vibrant city known for parks, restaurants, breweries, and a thriving downtown. Today, record office vacancies, rampant homelessness, drug use, and...
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This epsiode originally aired on February 11th, 2026. Enjoy! Washington is abuzz with talk of the SAVE America act, a piece of legislation that is designed to secure American elections and ensure that only American...
The last Supreme Court term was a very busy and consequential one. With decisions from redistricting to birthright citizenship to boys in girls’ sports, many cases made headlines and there is a lot to talk about. That’s...
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For much of the 2024 presidential campaign, Biden supporters as well as legacy media insisted that the president was mentally sharp and fully competent to execute his duties. Most Americans doubted this, and this debate...
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When President Trump took office in January of 2025, he signed 26 executive orders on the first day. In that pile of executive orders was one entitled: Protecting the Meaning and Value of American American Citizenship...
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Who ever heard of a state-based agency that is older than the state itself? The Texas General Land Office was established in 1836 by the Congress of the Republic of Texas, the sovereign country that became the State of...
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Harriet Tubman’s Shawl and Hymnal. Abraham Lincoln’s Hat. Chuck Berry’s Red Cadillac. These are just a few of the estimated 157 million items currently held by the Smithsonian Institutions. Spread across 21 museums, 21...
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America’s 250th anniversary of independence is being celebrated on the Fourth of July, this very week. And celebrations are taking place across the country. Tractor pulls. Concerts. Competitions. UFC Fights on the white...
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co-founder and managing director, U.S. International Development Finance Corporation
Vice President of Social and Domestic Policy and the William E. Simon Senior Research Fellow in American Principles and Public Policy, The Heritage Foundation
Professor and Past Chair in the Department of Health Administration and Human Resources at The University of Scranton, Livonia-Westland Chamber of Commerce
Veterans Land Board Chairwoman, Texas General Land Office
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