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Can a $1.2 trillion giveaway become a fiscal bargain?
Opinion -Editorial -Trump’s $5,000 ‘dividend’ would add heavily to the deficit — unless Congress couples it with spending reductions that survive long after the checks are cashed. -
NEW VIDEO: Who Pays For What Solar Owners Don’t?
Opinion -Editorial -Rooftop solar sounds like the reasonable version of solar power. Panels on your own roof, no farmland paved over, lower bills for everyone. Heartland Institute's Linnea Lueken explains why the grid-connected version doesn't work that way. -
Brandon Johnson does not deserve another term
Opinion -Editorial -Since Johnson’s tenure as mayor of the third-largest city in the United States, many Chicago residents would opine that Chicago has markedly declined. -
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.’ -
Trump’s ‘Dividend’ Plan Could Work, With One Major Addition
Opinion -Editorial -Those who are paying taxes are the ones doing the productive work and investment that is creating the economic growth Trump says he wants to reward. -
Low Tech Is NOT America’s Future! – James Taylor Talks The Future Of AI
Opinion -Editorial -A low tech America is a losing America, and falling behind China is the worst outcome on the table. -
PRESS RELEASE: Heartland Institute Experts Applaud EPA’s Repeal of Strict Greenhouse Gas Emissions Rule for Power Plants
Opinion -Press Release -‘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 -Press Release -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 -Press Release -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 […] -
Big Dairy Cabal’s ‘Dairy Net Zero’ Efforts Must Be Stopped
Opinion -Editorial -Over the past five years, an international cabal of dairy industry giants have tried to impose climate rules that would harm small producers. -
PRESS RELEASE: Heartland’s New 50-State Medicaid Report Card Ranks Kansas First, California Last
Opinion -Press Release -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 -Press Release -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 -Press Release -“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 -
FULL PROGRAM: Gov. Ron DeSantis, Kevin Sorbo, and Tom Woods at The Heartland Institute Benefit Dinner 2026
Opinion -WATCH: The Heartland Institute's 42nd Anniversary Benefit Dinner brought together some of the biggest names in the free-market and liberty movement. -
Flock doesn’t care if you’re innocent
Opinion -Editorial -The cameras record everyone who passes. Police should need a warrant before turning that mass collection into a searchable history of your movements. -
Guest Booking Opportunity: Heartland Institute’s Anthony Watts on Why the Media Rushed to Blame Climate Change for Nepal’s Deadly Glacier Collapse
Opinion -Press Release -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 -Press Release -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 -
The Free-market Case for AI Data Centers
Opinion -Heartland President James Taylor makes compelling points for AI data centers on the Hugh Hewitt Show. -
PRESS RELEASE: America Should Press European Union Over Extraterritorial Sustainability Regulations
Opinion -Press Release -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 -Press Release -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 -Press Release -‘Ensuring that the history of socialism is accurately taught to our children is an imperative goal for all states.’ -
PRESS RELEASE: Heartland Institute Reacts to Democratic Socialists of America’s Anti-American Platform
Opinion -Press Release -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. -
James Taylor: Bureaucrats Are Sabotaging the Trump EPA’s Repeal of the Endangerment Finding
Opinion -Department of Justice bureaucrats are sabotaging the legal basis for the repeal of the unscientific Endangerment Finding. -
ALERT: AI Censorship Is Already Here. Anthropic AI Model Refuses Service to ‘Climate Deniers.’
Opinion -Press Release -‘I’m not going to be able to help with this one,” wrote Claude AI based on ideology
