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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. -
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. -
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. -
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 -
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. -
A Much-Needed Dose of AI Optimism
Opinion -Editorial -We have become very good at imagining everything that could go wrong with advanced technology. But perhaps we should spend a little more time imagining what could go right. -
Democrats are desperate to ‘Europe’ our health care system
Opinion -Editorial -Despite the obvious failures of European-style health care, Democrats are intent on bringing it to America. -
Heartland Institute Experts Applaud Trump’s New, Realistic Automobile Efficiency Standards
Opinion -Press Release -‘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 […] -
Resurrecting the Green New Deal
Opinion -Editorial -Far-left candidates, especially members of the Democratic Socialists of America, are doubling down on the GND. -
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 -
Zoning Doesn’t Limit Its Destruction to Data Centers
Opinion -Editorial -Direct government control over uses of property is a blunt instrument that can do incredible harm, as the housing crisis demonstrates. -
Guest Booking Opportunity: Heartland Institute’s Chris Talgo on the Socialist ‘Long March’ Through America’s Public Schools
Opinion -Press Release -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 -Press Release -Heartland Senior Fellow Linnea Lueken, fresh off a visit to Israel, says the desert nation exports water while California rations it -
AI forcing Big Tech to rediscover energy reality
Opinion -Editorial -Modern civilization requires large amounts of affordable, reliable power -
Israel Can Teach California About Water
Opinion -Editorial -California leftists won’t like it, but they should look to Israel for a case study on how to manage water in the desert. -
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
