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James M. Taylor: Renewable Power Mandates ECN PODCAST: James M. Taylor, senior fellow for environment policy at The Heartland Institute and host Jim Lakely discuss the latest news on efforts to roll back wasteful and expensive renewable power mandates from state to state.	Avik Roy: Arkansas Medicaid deal HCN PODCAST: Benjamin Domenech talks with Avik Roy of the Manhattan Institute about Arkansas' Medicaid deal.
Wisconsin Teacher: Public Schools Push the U.S. Left SRN PODCAST: Because bureaucrats control public schools, public schools have for decades pushed successive generations of Americans farther and farther left, says Karen Schroeder. She's president of Advocates for Academic Freedom and a Wisconsin public school teacher who has seen this first-hand. Because textbooks and teacher training are controlled by progressive bureaucrats, even private schools have the same effect. Schroeder explains how this damages academic freedom and self-government, and what parents and citizens can do about it. Find the petition she mentions here.	Jim Capretta: Medicaid Reform HCN PODCAST: Benjamin Domenech interviews Jim Capretta of the EPPC on Medicaid reform.
Patrick Barron: The Simplicity of Sound Money BTN PODCAST: In May, banking industry consultant Patrick Barron will be addressing the European Parliament and lobbying for Germany to exit the Eurozone, reestablish the Deutsche Mark as its official currency, and back it with physical gold. He joins us to discuss the virtues of sound money.	Herb Walberg: Education and Capitalism SRN PODCAST: Capitalism once did a superior job providing K-12 schooling in the United States, and would do so once again if the public could overcome its fear of markets and economics, wrote Herbert Walberg and Joe Bast in their book, Education and Capitalism. It’s the book's ten-year anniversary, so Walberg joins the podcast to discuss these concepts and how they have matured in the past decade. He’s the chairman of Heartland’s board and member of the Hoover Institution’s Koret Taskforce on K-12 education at Stanford University. We talk about the moral case for free-market education, common myths about capitalism and education, and how free markets mean parents and kids get more "bang for the buck" out of schools.