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Socialist Watch: 2026 Midterm Elections
Opinion -Editorial -Since the 2018 midterm elections, The Heartland Institute has tracked and analyzed the total number of socialists running for political offices throughout the United States. -
Media Hits for Heartland: October 2026 … so far
Opinion -Editorial -Check out highlights from Heartland's invitations to be on TV, radio, and podcasts for the month of September 2026. -
Democratic Socialism Doomerism
Opinion -Doomerism is dangerous for society because it promotes a sense of desperation in which all measures to stop the supposed existential crisis must be used to save humanity. -
The Federal Scholarship Tax Credit Program Is Nearing
Opinion -Effective Jan. 1, the Federal Scholarship Tax Credit Program (FSTC)—part of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, signed into law by President Donald Trump in July 2025—will become the largest school-choice program in the U.S. -
We Must Embrace AI and Data Centers, Not Pause Them
Opinion -A data center is simply a building or warehouse filled with computers that generate heat as they meet countless growing needs across nearly every segment of modern society. -
The Refinery War and the Vulnerability of Modern Society
Opinion -The war in Ukraine is revealing something that is easy to overlook in peacetime: modern military power, like modern civilization itself, depends on continuous supplies of usable transportation fuels and other products made from crude oil. -
Climate Alliance’s Anti-affordability Platform Raises Big Election Issues
Opinion -Energy affordability is a central issue nationwide and the Democrats say they are all for it, but the Alliance platform says otherwise. -
Foreign money is pouring into ballot battles. Half the states aren’t ready
Opinion -Editorial -Only about half the states restrict foreign funding of ballot measures, and some of those laws still leave loopholes big enough to exploit. -
Columbus Is Why I Defend ‘Wasteful’ Space Exploration
Opinion -Editorial -What a good space program should do is the kind of spirit-edifying work that had the entire world glued to their television screens in 1969. -
Data center cognitive dissonance
Opinion -Editorial -Regarding data centers, Americans want it both ways; they want to have their cake and eat it too. -
Free enterprise or ‘free’ stuff?
Opinion -Editorial -The record over the past two centuries clearly shows that free enterprise has dwarfed socialism in producing higher living standards for all of society. -
Trump Administration Ends EV Mandate; Consumers Benefit
Opinion -Editorial -Congress should never have gotten into the business of setting fuel economy standards. -
Secretary Brooke Rollins Shepherds Another Anti-ESG Reform for USDA
Opinion -Editorial -Without overstating it, this is a wonderful development for American agriculture by Secretary Rollins and the USDA. -
Climate Change Weekly # 593— 2026 Science Review: Stories Casual Readers May Have Missed
Opinion -Legacy Climate Change Weekly -A study in Nature finds plants have been absorbing 31 percent more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere than previously assumed and modeled. -
Heartland’s Donald Kendal on OAN: Americans Are Missing the Big Picture on Data Centers
Opinion -Editorial -Donald Kendal, director of the Glenn C. Haskins Emerging Issues Center at The Heartland Institute, appeared on One America News Network to argue that this resistance overlooks the large benefits these facilities bring to their communities and to the country. -
The DSA Agenda Will Exacerbate the Affordability Crisis
Opinion -On substance, the Workers Deserve More Program is nothing more than an odd assortment of dumb Marxist ideas and concepts that sound too good to be true because they are indeed too good to be true. -
Fixing Failing U.S. Schools
Opinion -On September 8, The New York Times published a story titled “30 Ideas for Fixing U.S. Schools, Ranked by Experts.” The subhead read, “Math and reading scores are in a decade-long slump. We asked three dozen experts: What could turn things around?” -
What Exactly Is a Rooftop State?
Opinion -Colorado has often been called the “rooftop state” because the water that falls on Colorado flows to other states, with virtually none flowing in. -
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Life, Liberty, Property #162: New Orleans Housing Failure Confirms Limits of Government Mandates
Opinion -budget-tax-news, Editorial -The New Orleans City Council is rolling back an affordable-housing mandate that “failed to produce a single apartment complex since being passed in 2020,” ... -
PRESS RELEASE: Heartland Institute Experts Comment on Big Climate Case at Supreme Court Today
Opinion -Press Release -The Supreme Court should take its constitutional responsibility seriously by banning Boulder’s climate lawsuit in a way that applies to other cities’ lawsuits -
Climate Change Weekly # 592—Major Nature Study Retracted After RCP8.5 Debunking
Opinion -Legacy Climate Change Weekly -Since its passage, the IRA resulted in billions of dollars being wasted on various green boondoggles. -
Media Hits for Heartland: September 2026
Opinion -Editorial -Check out highlights from Heartland's invitations to be on TV, radio, and podcasts for the month of September 2026. -
Guest Booking Opportunity: Why America Needs More AI Optimism
Opinion -Press Release -“Call me a techno-optimist, but I refuse to believe humanity is inherently doomed to a fate depicted in The Terminator or Black Mirror. There is another vision of the future.” -
ObamaCare Fraud Indicts The Entire System
Opinion -Editorial -Poll after poll shows Americans are almost universally dismayed over the high cost of health care, as well they should be.
