Heartland Institute

The recent discovery of vast deposits of oil and natural gas trapped in shale rock formations has revolutionized our nation’s short-term, mid-term, and long-term energy outlook.

The Environmental Protection Agency’s release of its draft ”Investigation of Ground Water Contaminat

Florida legislators have proposed an education reform that is garnering significant national attention: the Parent Trigger.

Reauthorization of the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) has been a political football in recent years, with Congress unwilling to commit to reform.

The Obama administration has announced it wants every child in the nation to have an e-textbook by 2017.

In January 2012, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (R) proposed policies that would shift the state’s education system toward greater accountability, freedom, and choice.

Nearly 50 million American adults—more than a fifth of the nation’s adult population—smoke cigarettes.

Texas’s franchise tax—better known as the “margins tax”—does not work as advertised. The tax has not achieved any of the goals its creators set out for it.

Often lost in the attention rightly paid to students’ poor achievement in math and reading is that civic knowledge and participation have been sliding for decades in the United States.