Opinion
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Heartland Institute Experts Applaud Trump’s New, Realistic Automobile Efficiency Standards
Opinion -‘Government shouldn't be in the business of deciding what types of cars and trucks people drive’ -
Guest Booking Opportunity: DSA Candidates Are Rebranding the Green New Deal as an ‘AI Fix,’ But It Is the Same Trojan Horse
Opinion -Press Release -Heartland Institute’s Chris Talgo says a failed climate agenda is being resurrected under the guise of AI and data-center anxiety ahead of the 2026 midterms SCHAUMBURG, IL (September 28, 2026) — With the 2026 midterms approaching, Democratic Socialists of America-aligned congressional candidates are calling for a revived Green New Deal. This rebrand is marketed as […] -
Guest Booking Opportunity: Big Tech’s Retreat from Green Energy Pledges
Opinion -Press Release -The AI boom is forcing Google, Microsoft and Amazon to embrace nuclear power and natural gas, and that will be good for everyone -
Guest Booking Opportunity: Heartland Institute’s Chris Talgo on the Socialist ‘Long March’ Through America’s Public Schools
Opinion -A former public high school teacher says ideological training in teacher colleges explains the rise of the DSA, and points to Florida's new communism curriculum as a model to reverse it -
Guest Booking Opportunity: What Israel Can Teach Drought-Stricken California About Water
Opinion -Heartland Senior Fellow Linnea Lueken, fresh off a visit to Israel, says the desert nation exports water while California rations it -
Guest Booking Opportunity: Debunking ‘Data Center Derangement Syndrome’
Opinion -Press Release -The Heartland Institute’s Chris Talgo says most Americans are wrong about how much water and power AI data centers use — and what their communities stand to gain -
PRESS RELEASE: Heartland Institute Experts Applaud House Bill to Protect Americans from Energy Price Hikes Caused by AI Data Centers
Opinion -Press Release -‘We need AI, but it needs to be developed with the grid and ratepayers in mind.’ -
PRESS RELEASE: Heartland Institute Experts Applaud EPA’s Repeal of Strict Greenhouse Gas Emissions Rule for Power Plants
Opinion -‘This represents a massive victory for energy and climate realists who have fought this unscientific overreach for decades.’ -
Guest Booking Opportunity: Why Nuclear — Not Wind and Solar — Is What You Want During Weather Extremes
Opinion -As a report blames climate change for brief European nuclear slowdowns, Heartland senior fellow Anthony Watts says weather-dependent wind and solar are the actual reliability problem -
Guest Booking Opportunity: Why Nuclear — Not Wind and Solar — Is What You Want During Weather Extremes
Opinion -As a report blames climate change for brief European nuclear slowdowns, Heartland senior fellow Anthony Watts says weather-dependent wind and solar are the actual reliability problem SCHAUMBURG, IL (September 14, 2026) — The Heartland Institute’s senior fellow for environment and climate Anthony Watts is available for interviews about his new commentary published in The Washington […] -
PRESS RELEASE: Heartland’s New 50-State Medicaid Report Card Ranks Kansas First, California Last
Opinion -New Heartland Institute study evaluates every state across 16 measures of Medicaid policy, spending, program integrity, and provider-market conditions -
Guest Booking Opportunity: Heartland Institute’s S.T. Karnick on How a Century of Zoning Laws Caused the Housing Crisis — and Now Threatens Data Centers
Opinion -Heartland expert says it’s time to end the regulations that priced out first-time homebuyers and are now used to block data center construction -
PRESS RELEASE: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis Speech in Chicago Pushed for Historic Property Tax Rollback
Opinion -“We have to win, and they have to lose. And that’s what we’ve done,” DeSantis said as featured speaker at Heartland Institute Benefit Dinner -
Guest Booking Opportunity: Heartland Institute’s Anthony Watts on Why the Media Rushed to Blame Climate Change for Nepal’s Deadly Glacier Collapse
Opinion -Scientists say geology and infrastructure explain the disaster’s toll — but major outlets blamed climate change before the evidence is in -
PRESS RELEASE: Heartland Institute’s Chris Talgo on Why Democrats Will Ditch the Green New Deal
Opinion -It’s near the top of the DSA agenda, but is so toxic even they will abandon it … or at least stop talking about it -
PRESS RELEASE: America Should Press European Union Over Extraterritorial Sustainability Regulations
Opinion -Washington warns European Union that further action could follow if Brussels does not address burdens imposed on American businesses. -
PRESS RELEASE: European Union Begins Enforcing Sweeping Artificial Intelligence Act
Opinion -New enforcement powers give European regulators greater authority over American AI companies and technologies -
PRESS RELEASE: Heartland Institute Launches State Campaign for Socialism Education Reform
Opinion -‘Ensuring that the history of socialism is accurately taught to our children is an imperative goal for all states.’ -
Leading Physicist Debunks Climate Scare Driving Canada’s Net Zero Goals
Opinion -For more than a decade, governments around the world have pursued Net Zero as the defining goal of climate policy. Carbon dioxide has increasingly been portrayed as a pollutant that must be eliminated, and national success is often measured by the number of emissions reduced. -
PRESS RELEASE: Heartland Institute Reacts to Democratic Socialists of America’s Anti-American Platform
Opinion -As has been the case in nearly every failed socialist experiment over more than a century, the middle- and working-classes do not flourish, they become slaves to the state. -
ALERT: AI Censorship Is Already Here. Anthropic AI Model Refuses Service to ‘Climate Deniers.’
Opinion -‘I’m not going to be able to help with this one,” wrote Claude AI based on ideology -
PRESS RELEASE: The Heartland Institute’s Viral Voter Fraud Poll Resurfaces in National SAVE Act Debate
Opinion -‘American elections should be decided by American citizens, and only American citizens.’ -
PRESS RELEASE: Heartland Institute Reacts to Social Security Shortfall
Opinion -‘Increasing the retirement age by one year each year through 2033 is an essential change’ SCHAUMBURG, IL (June 11, 2026) – The Social Security Administration just announced that the retirement trust fund will run out of money in late 2032. The government will no longer be able to pay retirees their full promised benefits at […] -
Heartland Institute Releases New Video Separating Hurricane Facts from Climate Hype as 2026 Season Opens
Opinion -New short-form video arms the public with data-driven science just in time for hurricane season, countering claims linking storms to climate change.
