RFRA Worked the Way It Was Supposed To in Hobby Lobby

By Jennifer A. Marshall & Sarah Torre June 30, 2014

Today an important religious- liberty law did what it was supposed to do. In Burwell v. Hobby Lobby, the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) provided the Supreme Court with a ...

Politics & Policy

Incentives Matter in Fighting Poverty

By Jennifer A. Marshall January 8, 2014

Fifty years in, the War on Poverty has fortified the welfare state–industrial complex while weakening society’s little platoons and disarming the vulnerable. Far from giving the poor “a fair chance ...

What I Saw at the March for Marriage: Diversity

By Jennifer A. Marshall March 28, 2013

On Tuesday, as lawyers argued Proposition 8 before the Supreme Court, thousands made their way past the Court building as part of the March for Marriage, organized by the National ...

Politics & Policy

Poverty Thrives on the Same Old Song

By Jennifer A. Marshall November 23, 2012

  A half century into the War on Poverty, liberals can hardly declare victory. But they can claim the dominant anti-poverty narrative: Americans seldom look to conservatives for answers to the ...

Indivisible

By Jennifer A. Marshall November 9, 2012

Is the conservative movement rooted in self-evident truths that reflect the enduring nature and purpose of human beings? If the answer is yes, then our next steps are clear. We ...

Politics & Policy

Ryan on Poverty

By Jennifer A. Marshall October 25, 2012

Paul Ryan has earned a reputation for making Americans confront fiscal deficits many would prefer to ignore. Yesterday in Cleveland, the chairman of the House Budget Committee was at it ...

Solidarity Against HHS Mandate, and the Rest of Obamacare’s Burdens

By Jennifer A. Marshall June 29, 2012

Now that the Supreme Court has allowed Obamacare to proceed, the weight of the massive law’s implementation will begin to close in on Americans’ freedoms. One of the first places that ...

‘Where Are the Women’ on the Mandate?

By Jennifer A. Marshall February 28, 2012

Yesterday afternoon, some of the most thoughtful ones were at the Heritage Foundation, as Kate O’Beirne, president of the National Review Institute, and I hosted an event called “Women Speak ...

Nothing but Squid Ink

By Ed Haislmaier & Jennifer A. Marshall February 11, 2012

Proponents of Obamacare’s anti-conscience mandate on preventive care kept telling critics to wait and see what the final rules held. As of Friday afternoon, we now know. It wasn’t worth ...

We See an Ideal, Not a Fairy Tale

By Jennifer A. Marshall April 29, 2011

As many as 2 billion people — about a third of the world — were expected to watch as Prince William took Kate Middleton’s hand in marriage. For all the ...