The Heartland Institute

Lawsuits filed by inmates in Rikers Island, New York City’s main jail – most of them frivolous – have cost the city more than $111 million over the past five years. Suits have been filed for slips in a shower, a bed that’s too short, water that’s too hot served in the dining room. The payments come because the city ...

When is a compromise not a compromise? When only one side thinks it’s a compromise. The Obama administration said Friday that it will not provide broad exceptions to the contraception mandate in its signature healthcare law. The Health and Human Services Department rejected calls to let any employer opt out of the mandate ...

MADISON, Wisconsin—School choice in Wisconsin has come a long way since the late 1980s when Republican Gov. Tommy Thompson and Milwaukee led the national school voucher revolution. What began as a few private religious schools serving a few hundred public school children in inner-city Milwaukee has swelled to scores of schools ...

An investigation of Australia's national science agency, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation ( CSIRO), and a review of their document titled "The Science of Tackling Climate Change." Through the use of methodically solid data and sound analysis, this report finds CSIRO comments, behavior, and publications ...

Review of Last Call at the Oasis , edited by Karl Weber (Public Affairs, 2012), 272 pages, ISBN- 978-1586489786 Last Call at the Oasis is the book version of the fear-mongering movie of the same name. It is an amazingly bad presentation of groundless assertions of water scarcities occasionally interrupted by a few good chapters ...

Global warming forecasts and models produced by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change fail several fundamental principles of forecasting, University of Pennsylvania professor Scott Armstrong reports today in the Washington Times . Armstrong reports the asserted global warming crisis is similar to past environmental ...

Professional sports teams have received billions of taxpayers dollars in deals most independent economists say do little or nothing to improve local economies. Pushback against these deals has been growing and is a factor in the Chicago Cubs announcing they plan to renovate Wrigley Field with their own money, says Neil deMause ...

Florida’s public school teachers, state and county workers, and some municipal employees must send 3 percent of their pay to the state’s pension plan, according to a 4-3 ruling of the Florida Supreme Court. The court’s January ruling upheld a law that had been championed by Gov. Rick Scott (R). The 4-3 decision reversed a ...