Kay C. James, Heritage Foundation

Kay C. James

Heritage Foundation

Washington, DC, United States

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  • The Daily Signal
  • The Stream

Past articles by Kay:

Heritage President: Biden’s COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates Are Unacceptable, Must Be Rejected

WASHINGTON—Heritage Foundation President Kay C. James released the following statement after President Joe Biden’s speech Thursday announcing far-reaching COVID vaccine mandates: → Read More

Bloated $1.1 Trillion Infrastructure Bill Neither Reasonable nor Centrist

The infrastructure bill would expand the federal government, waste billions of taxpayer dollars, and promote expensive, far-left causes. → Read More

Why Americans Should Be Concerned About Communist China’s Influence in Africa

For decades, communist China has been wielding its influence in African countries, establishing strong financial interests and convincing growing nations that its authoritarian communism is a better form of government than democratic models of individual liberty and economic freedom. While not a typical kitchen table issue for Americans, China’s stronghold on Africa poses serious national… → Read More

The Left's Attempted Election Takeover

Politicians are trying to impose a federal takeover of elections and force changes to state laws that would allow for greater fraud. → Read More

Solutions 2020: Policy Issues and Recommendations

Solutions 2020 is a policy briefing book from The Heritage Foundation that offers conservative recommendations on key policy issues including civil society, economic freedom, constitutional government, national defense, and foreign policy. → Read More

It’s Not Racist to Support Election Integrity Laws

The left tries to portray any legitimate attempt to pass election integrity reforms as 1960s-style disenfranchisement of African Americans. → Read More

What Is Juneteenth, and Why Should Every American Want To Celebrate It?

Juneteenth—the annual observance celebrating the end of slavery in the United States in 1865—is a holiday that many Americans haven’t heard of until recently. That has caused some to wonder if it’s just some new “woke” holiday invented by Marxist academics, the creators of the historically inaccurate 1619 Project, or some other group on the left. It is not. → Read More

Juneteenth and Why Every American Should Want to Celebrate It

Let us look at Juneteenth just as we look at Independence Day—as a great turning point for freedom in our nation’s history. → Read More

Seven Steps to Surviving Cancel Culture

As a Black conservative for more than 40 years, I’m an expert on being canceled. I was canceled by the political left long before cancel culture was all the rage. If there’s one thing liberals and leftists dislike more than a conservative, it’s a Black conservative. Liberal America doesn’t want to hear from African-American conservatives because we go counter to their narrative that Black people… → Read More

7 Ways to Survive Cancel Culture

As a public figure of four decades, a black conservative woman helps navigate the “woke” cancel culture that pervades society today. → Read More

American Families Plan Will Do More Harm Than Good

If we really want to help families, the administration should abandon the American Families Plan. → Read More

Left Labeling Election Integrity Reforms As “Jim Crow” Is a Lie and Insulting to Black People

As a Black woman who grew up in the segregated South, I’m shocked and appalled with the race-baiting from mostly White left-wing politicians who are throwing around the “Jim Crow” label to score political points in the debate over strengthening our voting laws. To paraphrase Lloyd Bentsen’s line from the 1988 vice presidential debate with Dan Quayle: I knew Jim Crow. Jim Crow was no friend of… → Read More

First Trump, Then Who? Facebook Makes Wrong Call in Censoring Trump

The Oversight Board of Facebook decided to uphold the suspension of former President Donald Trump. This is the wrong decision. → Read More

Heritage President Responds to Oversight Board Decision

WASHINGTON–Heritage Foundation President Kay C. James released the following statement Wednesday after a decision by the Oversight Board to uphold Facebook’s and Instagram’s suspension of then-President Donald Trump from the platforms: → Read More

'Jim Crow' Smears Against State Voting Reforms Insult Black People

President Joe Biden , The New York Times, Coca-Cola, and others label voting reforms adopted in Georgia and other states as the new Jim Crow. → Read More

Don't Believe Left's Lies About 'Jim Crow' Election Reforms

Under HR 1, no one has to prove who they say they are in order to vote. It also automatically adds noncitizens to voter registration rolls. → Read More

Conservative Movement Needs Leaders Like This to Stay Alive

Millions more adherents, advocates, and activists will spur the conservative movement to push back against the left’s agenda. → Read More

Biden’s Illegal Immigration Agenda Creates Another Child Smuggling Crisis

The number of children coming to the U.S. border without parents is now more than 430 a day. Experts predict more than 100,000 by year's end. → Read More

Conservative Women Go Unrecognized During Women's History Month

Today's trailblazing conservative women and the many who came before them help build this great beacon of freedom we call America. → Read More

Heritage Foundation Welcomes Tim Murtaugh as Visiting Fellow, Contributor to The Daily Signal

WASHINGTON — Tim Murtaugh, former communications director for President Donald J. Trump’s 2020 re-election campaign, joins The Heritage Foundation today as a visiting fellow for communications and as a contributor for The Daily Signal. → Read More