The Heartland Institute

Joy Pullman, Research Fellow at the Heartland Institute, joined Townhalls "Ransom Note's" to talk about the intrusive Federal Government overreach in our school system. ...

Benjamin Domenech interviews Michael Ramlet of The Morning Consult regarding the latest polling on Obamacare. ...

John Nothdurft and Matthew Glans discuss the introduction of the 'wireless tax fairness act' with Heartland's Jim Lakely. ...

Former Illinois state Sen. Roger Keats discusses Chicago politics, the pension crisis in Illinois, and his new book "Chicago Confidential." ...

On a recent Heartland Institute conference call, Steve Goreham the author of "The Mad Mad World of Climatism" spoke to Heartland supporters about his new book and environmental policy. ...

Host Jim Lakely talks with Brent Skorup, director of operations and research at the Information Economy Project at the George Mason University School of Law. Skorup is the author of a new paper published by the Mercatus Center titled "Reclaiming Federal Spectrum: Proposals and Recommendations." Skorup and Lakely talk about ...

High-quality national education standards sounded like such a good idea. But as Common Core rolls out in classrooms across the country, teachers and parents are finding this great idea has lots of problems. Michael McShane is an education research fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, and he's been writing a 10-part ...

The National Taxpayer Union Foundation's annul BillTally report evaluates every spending bill introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate. For the first time in 12 years there were more in Congress who wanted to cut spending overall than those who wanted to drastically increase spending. ...

Former Kansas Rep. Charlotte O’Hara discusses the obstacles slowing efforts to repeal costly renewable power mandates ...

Historian and author Eric John Abrahamson of John Hopkins University discusses government's long involvement in promoting homeownership and the relationship between government and the housing sector. ...

Benjamin Domenech talks to Devon Herrick of the NCPA about plastic surgery and price transparency in health care. ...

Climate science author Steve Goreham explains the media misinforms the public on global warming ...

As charter schools expand rapidly around the country, several states are still charter holdouts. One notable such holdout is Kentucky. Lisa Grover, senior director of state advocacy at the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools joins the podcast to talk about getting charter schools into Kentucky and the other charter ...

In this 'best of edition' Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn has delivered his proposed budget for the next fiscal year. With budgets like these, it's easy to understand why Illinois has the nation's worst unfunded pension liability, backlog of unpaid bills, and credit rating. Ben VanMetre of the Illinois Policy Institute explains. ...

James Pinkerton, contributor to the Fox News Channel and a regular panelist on the Fox "News Watch" show, discusses the RATE Coalition. ...

Common Core state standards for K through 12 schools were adopted without debate in all states except Alaska, Nebraska, Texas and Virginia. Now educators, parents and policy makers are taking a closer look at what they agreed to and many don't like what they see. This episode features Joy Pullmann taking about the latest ...

President Barack Obama has proposed studying the possibility of privatizing the Tennessee Valley Authority, the nation's largest government-owned utility. Privatization expert Leonard Gilroy of Reason Foundation tells us why the president has a good idea, and why area politicians in both major political parties oppose it. ...

Are schools collecting too much personal information about kids? The world has become an intensive data-tracking place, with grocery stores tracking your eating habits and Google tracking your internet history and search terms. Schools are no exception. Bluegrass Institute education analyst Richard Innes, an old hand at the inner ...

Sam Karnick, Director of Research for the Heartland Institute, discusses his recent blog post on Somewhat Reasonable " McCain Plan Likely to Increase Prices, Reduce Access to TV Programming ." ...

Benjamin Domenech talks with attorney Andy Schlafly about the latest small business lawsuit against Obamacare. ...