The Heartland Institute

Tax cuts that are phased in, temporary, Keynesian in nature, and coupled with uncontrolled spending are hardly market-oriented policies, says Matthew Mitchell of the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, who explains why the Bush-era tax cuts failed to achieve their promises. ...

The New York Times recently held a symposium to air different thoughts about national education standards and tests, called the Common Core. One author who participated joins the School Reform News podcast to expound on his essa y . Middle school math teacher Vern Williams has sat on the National Mathematics Advisory ...

Aaron Renn of the urbanophile.com Web site has just completed an excellent months-long series of articles on Chicago and joins us to discuss the unofficial capitol of the Midwest, its recent past under former Mayor Richard M. Daley, and its present and future under current Mayor Rahm Emanuel. ...

Benjamin Domenech speaks with Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli of Virginia, on the legal challenges to Obamacare. ...

Heartland’s James M. Taylor and Jim Lakely talk about the Eighth International Conference on Climate Change, held in Munich Germany on Nov. 30 and Dec. 1, 2012. The conference, co-sponsored by the Germany-based European Institute for Climate and Energy (EIKE), was also dubbed the Fifth International Conference on Climate ...

Republicans appear to be warming to the notion of raising revenues to avoid the fiscal cliff, which is precisely the wrong thing to do. Instead they should be insisting on spending cuts. Real ones. Starting now. So says Richard Manning of Americans for Limited Government. ...

Benjamin Domenech discusses entitlements and the fiscal cliff. ...

Steve Stanek, research fellow for budget and tax policy at The Heartland Institute and managing editor of Budget & Tax News, talks “fiscal cliff” negotiations with host Jim Lakely. Stanek has strong words for Warren Buffet, Republicans, the president, and Democrats, leaving no blame-worthy party untouched. ...

Joy Pullmann, research fellow for education policy at The Heartland Institute and managing editor of School Reform News, talks about a shocking scandal in public education. Teachers are cheating on the tests that qualify them for employment in the classroom. The test is supposedly so easy that an average high school student ...

Benjamin Domenech talks with Philip Klein of the Washington Examiner about Liberty University's case against Obamacare. ...

A new proposal would restructure how Michigan pays for K-12 education, reorienting state funding to follow each student to any public school in the state that will take him. The education establishment is united in opposition to the 302-page set of ideas commissioned by Gov. Rick Snyder. What are the proposal's merits ...

New taxes and more Dodd-Frank regulations are possible in 2013, all of which could harm a badly needed housing recovery, says real estate expert Stuart Vener. ...

Entitlement reform and the fiscal cliff with Ben Domenech and Francis Cianfrocca. ...

Technology policy consultant Larry Downes, a columnist for Forbes.com, talks with Heartland’s Jim Lakely about proposals in the United Nations to regulate the Internet. Revisions of the International Telecommunications Regulations treaty will be debated at the World Conference on International Telecommunications in December. ...

Political conservatives are known to be tough on crime, but the conservatives who support Right on Crime believe there's a serious need for prison reform, and that means fewer people in prisons, Vikrant Reddy of Right on Crime explains. ...

In this "Best of" Heartland podcast, Jim Lakely and Joy Pullmann discuss the new policy brief released by the Heartland Institute, titled "The Parent Trigger: Justification and Design Guidelines." ...

In this "Best of" Heartland 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 ...

Jim Lakely, co-director of Heartland's Center on the Digital Economy, speaks with Scott Mackey, partner at KSE Partners LLP in Montpelier, Vermont, about his new report examining taxes and fees on wireless consumers. The report is titled, "Wireless Taxes and Fees Continue Growth Trend." ...

Family fragmentation undeniably hurting U.S. social mobility and the economy—but what to do about it? And how can education help? Dr. Mitch Pearlstein joins the podcast to discuss this topic, related to his book, From Family Collapse to America’s Decline, forthcoming book, and a recent symposium he hosted about how to benefit ...

Will Obama Tax the Internet? Seton Motley, President of LessGovernment.org discusses the future of the internet under President Obama. ...