The Heartland Institute

Meteorologist Anthony Watts explains the importance of his new research on heat biases in the U.S. temperature record. ...

Benjamin Domenech talks with block grant expert John Mashburn about Medicaid, food stamps, and welfare reform. ...

As president of the Public Service Research Foundation, David Denholm has spent many years studying the impact of unions on government policies. He says the recent bankruptcy of Stockton, California, could be just a taste of things to come, as retirement obligations strangle municipal finances and put municipal bonds at ...

Louisiana’s new statewide voucher program for poor and middle-class families has, like most school-choice programs, been subject to lawsuits since it passed. An attorney for the state’s teachers union recently contacted 95 private schools set to accept vouchers, threatening them with lawsuits if they accepted state funds through ...

Townhall.com columnist Marita Noon explains why alternative energy is hamstringing the U.S. economy. ...

Mattie Duppler of Americans for Tax Reform tells us about Cost of Government Day, an annual report that looks at the combined costs of taxes, fees and regulations. Nationally, Americans worked until July 15 to pay for government, though people in some states with higher- than-average taxes and regulations are still working ...

Berin Szoka and Ryan Radia discuss the brief filed in federal court challenging the constitutionality of the Federal Communication Commission's 2011 "Preserving the Open Internet" Order. ...

Paul Driessen, senior policy adviser for the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT), explains how environmental activists are harming the environment and taking human lives. ...

In this week’s health care podcast, Manager of External Relations Kendall Antekeier sat down with John C. Goodman, President of the National Center for Policy Analysis. Together they discuss what reforms states can consider after the Supreme Court ruling, many of those suggested by Goodman’s new book “Priceless – Curing the ...

The size of America’s teacher workforce has been a presidential campaign topic ever since President Obama suggested a third stimulus focused on keeping current teachers in their jobs. Andrew Coulson decided to join the fray by writing an article that appeared in the Wall Street Journal . It’s titled, “ AmericaHas Too Many ...

Richard J. Trzupek, a Heartland Institute policy advisor on the environment and energy, was a guest a guest for the whole third hour on the nationally syndicated Dennis Prager Show on Wednesday, July 18, 2012. He was on to talk about his new Encounter Broadside, How the EPA’s Green Tyranny is Stifling America . Rich joined ...

Pennsylvania lawmakers approved a large increase to the state's popular tax-credit scholarship program, but continue to shy away from vouchers despite an amenable constitution and Republican majority. What's the holdup? Priya Abraham, a senior policy analyst at the Commonwealth Foundation in Harrisburg, joins the School Reform ...

Professor Randy Barnett discusses Chief Justice Roberts' surprising decision on Obamacare. ...

Who'd have thought the personal mandate in ObamaCare is a tax? Chief Justice John Roberts says it is, and The Heartland Institute's Maureen Martin say that means Congress has no limits on what it may try to get Americans to do. ...

Ben Domenech interviews Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli and Twila Brase, president of the Citizens' Council for Health Freedom on the Supreme Court's decision. ...

David Lesperance helps people move their money and themselves around the world. Demonizing rhetoric from America's political leaders and bills like the recently introduced Ex-Patriot Act have boosted his business as millionaires and billionaires -- the nation's "Golden Geese" -- look for ways to protect their wealth from a money ...

Benjamin Domenech interviews Andrew Grossman, Dan McLaughlin, Erick Erickson and others on the Supreme Court's shocking Obamacare ruling. ...

A new group calling itself the Coalition to Reduce Spending has come together to pressure federal legislators and candidates for office to cut federal spending. Coalition President Jonathan Bydlak tells us why they believe federal spending needs to be cut and how they hope to do it. ...

Illinois has more than doubled its cigarette tax, with most of the money pledged to Medicaid. But Jonathan Ingram of the Illinois Policy Institute says experience shows state officials are likely to be disappointed in the results. ...

Bret Swanson, president of the technology and innovation research firm Entropy Economics LLC, discusses the Federal Communications Commission’s mishandling of spectrum acquisition, which threatens to thwart the United State’s most robust economic and technological engine. ...