The Heartland Institute

Ann C. Logue, Out of the Storm News contributor, is on this week's FIRE podcast to talk with host Arin Greenwood about her new book Emerging Markets for Dummies. ...

Nation Center for Public Policy Research Senior Fellow Bonner Cohen explains why hydraulic fracturing technology for natural gas production can secure America's energy prosperity. ...

Institute for Energy Research director of state affairs Dan Simmons explains why renewable power mandates harm the economy and kill jobs. ...

Benjamin Domenech talks to guest John C. Goodman, president and CEO of the National Center for Policy Analysis, about this week's vote to repeal Obamacare and what comes next for the Congress and the states. ...

In this week's podcast, Bartlett Cleland, Director of the Center for Technology Freedom, Institute for Policy Innovation, speaks with Bruce Edward Walker, managing editor of InfoTech & Telecom News, regarding the FCC's approval of the NBC Universal/Comcast merger. ...

In this week's podcast, Jim Lakely, director of communications and co-director of the Center for the Digital Economy for The Heartland Institute, and Bruce Edward Walker, managing editor of Infotech & Telecom News, discuss the Level 3 peering dispute with Comcast, the calls for a return of the Fairness Doctrine, and the status ...

Patricia Levesque, executive director of the Foundation for Florida's Future, discusses education reform in the Sunshine State with School Reform News Managing Editor Ben Boychuk. ...

Infotech and Telecom News Managing Editor Bruce Edward Walker speaks with Tom Giovanetti, president, Institute for Policy Innovation, about Giovanetti's article "How Government Sabotages Job Creation," network neutrality, and the FCC's interminable foot-dragging over the Comcast and NBC Universal merger. ...

Marita Noon, executive director of Citizens' Alliance for Responsible Energy, explains the battle in New Mexico over a state board's attempt to impose carbon dioxide restrictions on power plants. ...

Randy Page of South Carolinians for Responsible Government joins School Reform News Managing Editor Ben Boychuk to discuss the election of Mick Zais and the prospects for school reform in the Palmetto State in 2011. ...

Walter Olson - senior fellow at the Cato Institute's Center for Constitutional Studies, and founder/chief blogger of Overlawyered.com - is the guest on this week's FIRE podcast. Olson talks with host Arin Greenwood about his new book, Schools for Misrule: Legal Academia and an Overlawyered America. ...

School Reform News Managing Editor Ben Boychuk discusses the movie Waiting for Superman with Bruno Behrend, The Heartland Institute's Director of the Center for School Reform. ...

School Reform News Managing Editor Ben Boychuk discusses Michelle Rhee's reform legacy with Bruno Behrend, The Heartland Institute's Director of the Center for School Reform. ...

Scott Bullock, a senior attorney with the Institute for Justice, is the guest on this week's FIRE podcast. Scott recently co-authored "Policing for Profit: The Abuse of Civil Asset Forfeiture," and talks with Arin Greenwood about how the civil asset forfeiture system works, the system's abusive nature, and how a house in Texas ...

One of the unexpected casualties of Obamacare could be the death of the insurance agent. Today Merrill Matthews, a resident scholar with the Institute for Policy Innovation in Dallas, walks us through how the law will affect thousands of health insurance agents across the country. ...

Marita Noon, executive director of the Citizens Alliance for Responsible Energy, discusses the importance of affordable energy. ...

Bill Wilson runs Americans for Limited Government and sees a connection between limited government and open government. These days the Federal Reserve is going to great lengths to oppose open government, at least as it would apply to the Federal Reserve's use of trillions of dollars it has loaned to . . . no one outside ...

"All Comers" vs. Freedom of Association: School Reform News Managing Editor Ben Boychuk discusses the implications of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Christian Legal Society v. Martinez with Greg Lukianoff, president of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE). ...

Todd Myers, Director of the Center for the Environment at the Washington Policy Center, talks about green building codes and related environmental issues. ...

In this week's FIRE Podcast, Ryan Sherriff of the Center for Housing Policy talks with host Arin Greenwood about mitigation issues relating to affordable housing, and about CHP's online toolkit, a website full of good information about how states and localities can help protect homes from natural disasters. ...