GET THE TISSUES READY: Margaret Thatcher Delivers Passionate Reagan Eulogy
Today, on the anniversary of Ronald Reagan’s death, we remember the legacy of a man beloved by his country and by the world. Watch his “political soulmate” Margaret Thatcher explain what it was that made Ronald Reagan so beloved. Ronald Reagan loved America and what it stood for, and, in turn, America loved Ronald Reagan.
Pages Of Government Regulations Would Tower Over A Giraffe
by Ross Dubberly Is there ever a point where government imposes such a large number of regulations that it simply drowns hard-working Americans with insurmountable bureaucracy? As far as the Left is concerned—and if the legacy of the Obama administration provides any indication—the answer is a resolute “No!” But let us consider a few simple […]
Meet The Interns: Kevin O’Connor Joins YAF HQ Team
Kevin O’Connor is a rising junior at Embry Riddle Aeronautical University, pursuing a business administration degree with a concentration in management and a minor in entrepreneurship. He has made the Dean’s List ever since his arrival at university. Kevin founded his university’s Young American’s for Freedom chapter, helping to reduce some of his school’s wasteful […]
Young America’s Foundation Statement On President Trump’s Pardon Of Longtime YAF Ally Dinesh D’Souza
“Young America’s Foundation applauds President Trump’s decision to pardon Dinesh D’Souza,” said YAF spokesman Spencer Brown. “In doing so the President has moved the United States closer to a society wherein free speech, including campaign participation, is in line with our founders’ vision as the most protected, not the most regulated speech. Dinesh D’Souza is […]
YAF’s National Journalism Center Summer Session Begins With Largest Class Since 2009
This summer, the National Journalism Center will continue its mission to educate inspiring journalists with a record-tying (2009) 41 students—the highest number of students in a session since the program began in 1977. Each year, NJC works hard recruiting students from across the country to come to DC for hands-on internships and training sessions that […]
Meet The Interns: Katie Cupp Joins YAF HQ Team
Katie Cupp is a junior at the University of Central Missouri studying political science and communication. She is currently serving her second year as the chairwoman of the University of Central Missouri Young Americans for Freedom chapter. Katie has been involved with Young America’s Foundation since 2016, when she attended her first YAF conference as […]
‘YAF Is Not A Suitable Platform’: Bellarmine University Administrator Blocks YAF Chapter
Conservative students at Bellarmine University in Louisville, Kentucky, were recently blocked in their attempts to form a chapter of Young Americans for Freedom, the chapter affiliate of Young America’s Foundation. In an email to the student activists, Bellarmine University’s Director of Student Activities and Orientation Jessica Lynch repeatedly proclaimed her dislike for YAF. “My concerns […]
Meet The Interns: Hannah Payne Joins YAF HQ Team
Hannah Payne is a rising sophomore in the Honor’s college at the University of Georgia studying finance and legal studies. Hannah is passionate about promoting conservative ideas and understanding public policy’s effects on the markets and business as a whole. As a result, she spent much of her first year on campus participating in conservative […]
April Chapter Of The Month: How HWS YAF Changed Their Campus
For their perseverance and steadfast commitment to advancing YAF’s mission, Hobart and William Smith Colleges Young Americans for Freedom (HWS YAF) has been named chapter of the month for April. Beginning with HWS YAF’s inaugural event on campus last October, campus leftists continually attempt to subvert HWS YAF’s efforts to educate their peers on conservative […]
Meet The Interns: Morgan Moya Joins YAF HQ Team
Morgan first got involved with Young America’s Foundation during her sophomore year of high school. After being introduced to Ben Shapiro at a high school conference at the Reagan Ranch in Santa Barbara, Morgan developed a passion for American public policy and culture. Her senior year of high school, Morgan was the chairwoman of the […]
From Campus To Conferences: UGA YAF Founder Becomes Bold Conservative Activist
Young Americans for Freedom–and Young America’s Foundation, more generally–changed my life. In less than one year’s time, I went from a shy and timid college conservative to a bold activist in the Conservative Movement on my campus. That transformation is entirely due to joining Young Americans for Freedom. I was always a conservative by predisposition, […]
GW YAF Chair: YAF Has Taught Me To Be Brave
As a senior at the George Washington University, I look back at my college experience and can confidently say that my life has forever been altered for the better because of my involvement with Young America’s Foundation. Prior to coming to GWU, I had always considered myself right of center, but never as a conservative. […]
Meet The Interns: Kevin McMahon Joins YAF HQ Team
Kevin McMahon is a rising senior at the University of Virginia studying economics, and political science/government. Over the past two years, Kevin has worked to earn the Young Americans for Freedom Chapter at UVA official recognition from the University. After running into roadblocks, jumping through bureaucratic hoops, and threatening legal action against the University of […]
Alumni Profile: Eli Nachmany’s Path From YAF Activist To The Trump Administration
Twenty-two-year-old Young America’s Foundation alumnus Eli Nachmany knew that if he wanted to be a part of the Trump administration, he would have to put in his time. During the fall semester of 2016, Nachmany took a break from his studies at New York University to work as a press lead on then-candidate Trump’s campaign. […]
Meet The Interns: Abby Streu Joins YAF HQ Team
Abby Streu is a rising junior at the University of Wisconsin–Madison studying economics and journalism. Abby became involved with Young Americans for Freedom her freshman year of college and, as outreach chair, immediately began participating in activism and Wisconsin YAF events, including the planning of their Ben Shapiro lecture. She attended her first Young America’s […]
Get A Grip, Leftists: Income Inequality Isn’t Bad
By Ross Dubberly Why is income inequality a bad thing? The reality is, it isn’t—provided it is the result of a truly free economy. In fact, despite the brouhaha surrounding the issue of income inequality in America, the disparity in incomes is fundamentally an expression of freedom. Income inequality is the bogeyman of the Left […]
Uniqueness Of Boy Scouts And Girl Scouts To Be Celebrated, Not Changed
By Kara Bell, University of Wisconsin YAF Girls and boys are inherently different. Baffling, right? But the decision to include girls in Boy Scouts of America, an organization founded to train young boys in responsible citizenship, character development, and self-reliance, is now ‘Scouts BSA,’ in an attempt to blur the line even more between sexes. […]
UC Berkeley’s ‘Free Speech Commission’ Recommendations Are Staggeringly Bad
Carol Christ, the chancellor at the University of California, Berkeley was “delighted” to share the findings of her so-called “Free Speech Commission” in an email this week. The report cites “events last fall which resulted in significant disruption to the campus and challenged our values as a community,” and obsesses over Ben Shapiro’s appearance on […]
YAF & Cornell University Conservative Club Overcome Leftist Protests To Host VP Dick Cheney
On Wednesday, Young America’s Foundation sponsored one of the most consequential leaders in U.S. history—Vice President Dick Cheney—to speak at a Cornell University lecture organized by campus conservative club. Despite repeated attempts by campus and community leftists to silence the conservative students and Vice President Cheney, Young America’s Foundation persisted and ensured that a packed […]
YAF Urges Social Media Outlets To ‘Mirror The First Amendment’
Young America’s Foundation President Ron Robinson signed onto a letter with more than five dozen other conservative leaders calling for social media outlets to cease their censorship of conservative voices and brands. “Social media censorship and online restriction of conservatives and their organizations have reached a crisis level,” the letter begins. “Social media firms have banned […]
Cornell Leftists Predictably Lose Touch With Reality Ahead Of YAF Lecture By VP Dick Cheney
“Resist Dick Cheney & U.S. Imperialism” proclaims the event page for a protest being organized by several leftist groups at Cornell in response to this week’s lecture by the 46th Vice President of the United States, part of Young America’s Foundation’s nationwide campus lecture program. “When [Cheney] comes to campus this week, it is our […]
High School YAF Rally Eclipses Anti-Second Amendment Walkout
The Young Americans for Freedom (YAF) chapter at Hononegah Community High School in Illinois organized a counter demonstration to an anti-Second Amendment walkout and rallied support for the Second Amendment. Cruz Marquis, the chairman of the YAF chapter, recognized his classmates’ disapproval of a walkout held in March and the need for someone to spearhead […]
YAF Scores Victory Against Berkeley In Free Speech Lawsuit, Case To Proceed
A federal judge in San Francisco ruled to allow Young America’s Foundation’s First Amendment lawsuit against the school to move forward, giving students their day in court to hold Berkeley accountable for violating their rights and suppressing conservative speech. UC Berkeley has used its infamous unwritten and unpublished High Profile Speaker Policy to repeatedly suppress […]
Sean Spicer and Jesse Watters Join YAF’s One-of-a-Kind Campus Lecture Program
After they packed the houses for their campus debuts, President Trump’s first White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer and host of Fox News Channel’s Watters’ World Jesse Watters have become the most recent additions to Young America’s Foundation’s campus lecture program. YAF recently hosted Jesse Watters at Ithaca College and sponsored Sean Spicer’s debate with […]
