Opinion
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Wisconsin Charter and Private Choice Schools Outperform Public Schools, Study Finds
Opinion -budget-tax-news, school-reform-news -Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty (WILL) conducted a sophisticated statistical analysis to compare Wisconsin schools. -
Idaho Reforms Laws to Encourage and Protect Mining
Opinion -environment-climate-news -In an effort to ensure the continued viability and profitability of Idaho’s economically critical mining industry, state lawmakers and policymakers recently enacted the first major changes to the state’s mining law in 50 years. -
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Heartland Weekly: UN Misleads About Food Production
Opinion -Editorial -Week of September 2, 2019 -
The Poorest 20% of Americans Are Richer on Average Than Most Nations of Europe
Opinion -Editorial -The privilege of living in the U.S. affords poor people with more material resources than the averages for most of the world’s richest nations. -
The Real Loser of the Democratic Presidential Candidate Climate Change Debate
Opinion -Editorial -There was very little difference among the candidate positions on CO2-induced climate change, which they all claim is the most dangerous threat the world has ever faced -
Free to Choose Medicine Parallel Track Will Reduce Costs and Save Lives
Opinion -Editorial -Voters routinely cite rising health care costs near the top of their list of concerns. -
Ludwig von Mises’s Human Action: Marking 70 Years of Continuing Relevance
Opinion -Editorial -September 2019 marks 70 years since the appearance of Ludwig von Mises’s Human Action: A Treatise on Economics, one of the truly great “classics” of modern economics. -
Let Them Eat Lobsters
Opinion -Editorial -Lobster is a perfect example of how capitalism is forever making a mess of any entrenched sense of what is fancy and what is plain. -
Federal Appeals Court Affirms EPA Mining Liability Decision
Opinion -environment-climate-news -The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia affirmed a decision by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency not to impose new national financial assurance requirements on the hardrock mining industry. -
California’s ‘Green’ Energy Policies Are Driving Residents into Poverty
Opinion -environment-climate-news -California's energy policies are pushing more of the state's residents into poverty and is contributing to its homelessness crisis. -
ALEC Rejects Climate Action Resolution
Opinion -environment-climate-news -A task force of the American Legislative Exchange Council rejected a proposed resolution calling for the “pursuit of American Clean Energy Policy” at ALEC’s 2019 Annual Meeting, held August 14 through the August 16 in Austin, Texas. -
D.C. Groups Want Vacant Public-School Buildings for Charter Schools
Opinion -budget-tax-news, school-reform-news -Parents are being denied school choice because the district is preventing charters from using empty public school space. -
Price Gouging Laws Are Knowledge Embargoes That Should Be Repealed
Opinion -Category 4 Hurricane Dorian, with winds reaching 140 miles per hour, is creeping toward Florida. -
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Heartland Weekly: Heartland Takes on UN in Salt Lake City on Monday
Opinion -heartland-weekly, Editorial -Week of August 26, 2019 -
Ending Surprise Medical Bills: the Very Good, the Good, and the Ugly
Opinion -Editorial -Surprise medical billing is a problem that needs a solution. My own preference is for a Federal Trade Commission (FTC) solution. -
Lawmakers Call for Federal Right to Try Expansion
Opinion -health-care-news, News -“The goal should not be maintaining an exceedingly expensive—in time and money—status quo, clinical trial process.” -
USDA, BLM to Move Some Operations to Nation’s Heartland
Opinion -environment-climate-news -The U.S. Department of Agriculture is moving two of its departments to Kansas City, and the U.S. Department of Interior is relocating the Bureau of Land Management headquarters to Grand Junction, Colorado. -
Climate Alarmists Foiled: No U.S. Warming Since 2005
Opinion -Editorial -When American climate alarmists claim to have witnessed the effects of global warming, they must be referring to a time beyond 14 years ago. -
It’s Time to Whack Greenhouse Gas Endangerment Finding
Opinion -Editorial -Carbon dioxide does not “endanger” our health – and it’s time EPA recognized that simply fact. -
Alarmist Educators Pressure Children into Fear, Depression
Opinion -Editorial, Legacy Climate Change Weekly -Climate Change Weekly #334 -
Free Market Think Tank Crackdown Is A Setback For Freedom
Opinion -Editorial -Chinese economic liberalization has been responsible for the biggest mass movement out of extreme poverty in human history. -
Direct Primary Care Offers Cost Savings, Privacy, Personalized Care
Opinion -health-care-news, News -Editor’s Note: Direct primary care (DPC) has proven to be a viable, quality-based solution to soaring health care costs, but government policies stand in the way of the growth of this option. -
Appeals Court Considers Obamacare Constitutionality
Opinion -health-care-news, News -A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit is deciding the constitutionality of the 2010 Affordable Care Act (ACA) after hearing 90 minutes of arguments in a packed courtroom in New Orleans. -
The Film Capitalism Needs Right Now
Opinion -Editorial -If you subscribe to Netflix and care about the future of human liberty, I urge you right now to search and find the documentary called The Pursuit, newly on the lineup of this subscription service.