Top Heritage Officials Flee to Mike Pence’s Nonprofit as Think Tank Fractures: Report

A rift in MAGA has top Heritage Foundation officials leaving to join with Mike Pence

The exit of more than a dozen staffers follows turmoil at Heritage and the larger conservative movement over the role of right-wing influencers who've promoted antisemitic and other extremist ideas.

It’s 'debatable' if conservatism is 'even an intellectual movement': Charlie Sykes

The far-right think tank, the Heritage Foundation, is facing collapse, and conservative commentator Charlie Sykes sees it as part of something larger. Speaking on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” on Tuesday, Sykes called the Heritage Foundation’s decline “a long time coming.” During the 1980s, it served as the “beating heart” or the “intellectual center of the Ronald Reagan revolution.”"This is a mass exodus from the Heritage Foundation," Sykes said of the…

Antisemitism Assertions Trigger Departures at Heritage Think Tank

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More Than a Dozen Staff Left Heritage Foundation for Mike Pence’s Think Tank

More than a dozen staff, including multiple director-level positions, have left the Heritage Foundation and joined former Vice President Mike Pence’s think tank amid controversy over how the former responded to concerns about anti-Semitism. In a press release on Dec. 22, Pence said his organization Advancing American Freedom was “honored to welcome these principled conservative scholars to the team.” On social media, his group positioned itself …

Heritage Foundation staffers quit and join Mike Pence foundation

More than a dozen employees at the Heritage Foundation left their posts over the weekend amid widening ideological rifts within the conservative movement and escalating internal tensions at the influential think tank. “This weekend, most of our staff, from our legal and economic centers, are departing immediately,” Heritage President Kevin Roberts wrote in a Sunday night email to employees. “We wish them well, though the manner of their departur…

Heritage Foundation loses a dozen scholars to Pence-led group in rift over leadership

The steady drip of departures from the Heritage Foundation turned into a cascade Monday as legal luminary Josh Blackman resigned and more than a dozen scholars and staff moved to a competing organization founded by former Vice President Mike Pence.