Simon Hankinson

Simon Hankinson, a former foreign service officer with the State Department, is a senior research fellow in The Heritage Foundation’s Border Security and Immigration Center.

Government
Is DEI Worth Saving?

Is anything worth saving from the State Department’s new but vast diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility apparatus? Executive summary: No. As the summer 2020 high water mark of woke recedes,… Read More

December 26, 2024
Opinion
Fraud permeates Biden-Harris’ illegal alien ‘sponsorship’ program

(The Daily Signal) – In the run-up to November’s election, Vice President Kamala Harris is attempting to rewrite history and absolve herself of her administration’s policy of facilitating mass illegal… Read More

September 6, 2024
Opinion
Yes, America Is exceptional. Happy 4th of July!

On this Independence Day, let’s acknowledge the exceptional existence of these United States of America. I came to America in 1975. Attending first grade that autumn in New Jersey, I… Read More

July 4, 2024
Culture
Taxpayers shouldn’t have to fund state department’s DEI pseudoscience

(The Daily Signal) – The federal government increasingly looks like an Ivy League classroom, combining therapy for fragile souls with indoctrination into specious ideology. Nowhere is this more apparent than at… Read More

April 16, 2024
Opinion
Attempt to quantify impact, value of DEI at state department is an epic fail

(The Daily Signal) – Secretary of State Antony Blinken on June 6 informed us that former Ambassador Gina Abercrombie-Winstanley, his department’s first-ever chief diversity and inclusion officer, was leaving the post.Blinken… Read More

June 27, 2023