The first of a special three part series on immigration, explaining the basics on border walls, enforcement, and amnesty with policy analyst, David Inserra.

One of the most unique things about America is Hollywood. The movies made by American companies serve as the benchmark for entertainment all around the world, including China. But China is quickly becoming the largest entertainment market in the world, and doing business with them comes at a price. This week, we discuss the intersection of the free market and Chinese censorship in Hollywood, and what that means for our culture.

If you’ve debated politics recently, you’ve probably heard from liberals like Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez that America should adopt the socialist polices of Scandinavia. But what does that even mean? This week, we talk with Ambassador Terry Miller to explain this idea and why it is not the “cure” to our issues.

This week we’ll examine numbers in Heritage’s new judicial appointment tracker and explain how the mid-term election victory in the Senate gives Republicans an opportunity to confirm more judges even faster.

Check out the judicial tracker here: www.heritage.org/judicialtracker

As election day approaches, many on the left are claiming that requiring voters to register with correct information is a way to suppress votes. This week Hans von Spakovsky, manger of Heritage’s Election Law Reform Initiative explains what is really happening.

SHOW NOTES: Heritage’s voter fraud database https://www.heritage.org/voterfraud and the full “Ami on the Streets” video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrBxZGWCdgs

The Republican tax cuts are losing popularity among Americans, in spite of more money being placed in their pockets, and a booming economy that is creating opportunity for all. How can it be that Obamacare (fewer options, lower quality, and more expensive) is more favorable than the tax cuts? This week, we talk with Adam Michel and Jordan Hess to correct the record, and provide listeners with ammunition to fight back against the left’s narrative.

This week on Heritage Explains we break down what exactly the FBI is doing during its additional investigation of Brett Kavanaugh, what happens when it’s over, and what that will mean for the Supreme Court now and perhaps generations from now.

This week, Heritage’s Nick Loris breaks down the truth about the effect climate change actually has on natural disasters and why the left continues to misrepresent data. (Here is the link to the NOAA chart we reference in the episode that shows temperature fluctuations over the past million years https://www.heritage.org/sites/default/files/~/media/infographics/2016/bg3119/bg-climate-science-chart-1-825.jpg.)

Currently there are 2.2 million people in our nation’s prisons and jails. That’s a 500% increase over the last 40 years. And did you know that today, nearly half of all federal inmates return to prison after they are released? This week Heritage expert Paul Larkin explains a lesser known program that could be helping recidivism rates and why our nation fell away from rehabilitation programs for inmates in the first place.

This week, Thomas Jipping, deputy director of Heritage’s Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies, helps us break down some of the basics of what it actually means to be a good judge or a bad judge and why.