The Heartland Institute

A group of prison inmates in Idaho is suing major beer companies, alleging the brewers are responsible for their lives of crime. One of the prisoners killed a man five years ago. Two others were convicted of grand theft and drug violations. All of the plaintiffs claim they didn’t know alcohol is addictive and habit-forming ...

The billions of dollars a dozen financial institutions recently agreed to pay to settle government complaints over banking and mortgage lending practices come with a twist: The financial institutions likely will receive billions of dollars of tax deductions. Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) sent a letter to federal financial regulators ...

The State Teacher Policy Yearbook provides detailed analysis of any and every state policy that impacts the teaching profession. The Yearbook is a 52-volume encyclopedia (51 state reports including the District of Columbia plus a national summary) produced every other year, measuring states' policies against a realistic blueprint ...

Vocabulary is vital to learning in every subject, studies show. To get a more accurate view of U.S. students’ vocabulary, the National Center for Education Statistics adapted its vocabulary and reading comprehension assessment in 2009. The second round of results shows U.S. students have only a mediocre vocabulary. Vocabulary ...

James McGill Buchanan Jr. died Wednesday, January 9, 2013 in Blacksburg, Virginia. In 1986 he won the Nobel Prize in economics mainly for establishing the public choice school of economics. I was a student at his graduate seminar in public choice at University of California-Los Angeles when he was visiting professor in the ...

The implementation of a new and controversial piece of legislation, which critics say would damage the fragile U.S. economy and negatively impact the seven million American expats around the world, is “losing momentum,” according to the boss of the world’s largest independent financial advisory firm. The comments from Nigel Green ...