Opinion
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High Housing Costs Drive Exodus to Exurbs
Opinion -Smaller cities in the United States are growing much more quickly than large ones, reversing a trend earlier in the 2010-2019 decade. -
Wealth Produces Resilience to Extreme Events
Opinion -Climate Change Weekly #332 -
PRESS RELEASE: Heartland Institute to Livestream Rebuttal to U.N. ‘Civil Society’ Sustainability Conference
Opinion -Rebuttal Will Explain How U.N. ‘Solutions’ to Climate Change Harm World’s Poorest -
U.S. House Committee Passes National Parks Upkeep Bill
Opinion -Bipartisan legislation to use revenues from energy production on federal property to pay down the large maintenance backlog at national parks was approved by the U.S. House Committee on Natural Resources. -
Watermelons Use Green New Deal, Paris Treaty to Impose Socialism
Opinion -Many of my friends have long referred to environmentalists as “watermelons” — green on the outside, red on the inside. -
Trump Administration Proposes More Flexible Apprenticeship Rules
Opinion -The U.S. Department of Labor proposes a rule to expand access to apprenticeships. -
The Reports of Iceland’s Glacial Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated
Opinion -The media are abuzz over the first icy "casualty" of climate change: a small glacier in Iceland named Okjökull, also known as "OK." -
Mainstream Media Abandons Journalism for Activism on Climate Change
Opinion -For more than 20 years I’ve watched media outlets fail to accurately portray the debate surrounding climate change. Unfortunately, things are getting worse. -
Wisconsin Supreme Court Rejects Special Requirements for Pipeline Expansion
Opinion -The Wisconsin Supreme Court has ruled Dane County cannot force Enbridge Inc. to purchase special environmental liability insurance as a condition of permission to expand its oil pipeline. -
New York Adopts State ‘Green New Deal’
Opinion -New York state has adopted what Gov. Andrew Cuomo has dubbed the Green New Deal of New York, the most aggressive carbon-emissions-reduction goals in the nation. -
Stiglitz Pens Manifesto for More Progressive-Socialist Government
Opinion -Review of People, Power and Profits: Progressive Capitalism for an Age of Discontent by Joseph E. Stiglitz -
Right to Try Legislation Expands Patient Freedom in North Carolina
Opinion -A new law expanding patient access to medical treatments in North Carolina will go into effect on December 1, having received unanimous approval in both chambers of the North Carolina General Assembly and the July 1 signing by Governor Roy Cooper. -
This Little Engine Delivers Results for DC Children
Opinion -Over the past 15 years, the Opportunity Scholarship Program (OSP) has become the Little Engine That Could among school choice programs in the United States. -
On Energy, Maine’s Politicians Keep Making a Bad Situation Even Worse
Opinion -Politicians everywhere should have to take a version of the Hippocratic Oath, swearing the laws they enact to solve problems won’t make the situation worse. -
Dear Senator Warren, the Revolving Door With Gottlieb Didn’t Start at Pfizer
Opinion -Warren barely scratched the surface on the audacity of unelected and unaccountable executive agency officials who blatantly abuse their positions of power for their own gain. -
Medicare for All: More Taxes, Worse Health Care, and Much More Debt
Opinion -News flash: Medicare and Social Security, the nation’s two largest entitlement programs, are on the fast track towards bankruptcy. -
A Paternalistic Government Solution to Payday Loan ‘Debt Traps’
Opinion -Government paternalism consists not only of giving people things they didn’t pay for, but also in preventing people from making decisions that, in the benevolent judgment of superintending bureaucrats, aren’t in their best interest. -
SPIKED AT FORBES: Global Warming? An Israeli Astrophysicist Provides Alternative View That Is Not Easy To Reject
Opinion -NOTE: This article about 'skeptic' climate scientist Nir Shaviv was published and then quickly pulled from Forbes.com. We publish it here to save the trouble of using the Wayback Machine to read it. The Internet is Forever. -
Country Time Offers ‘Legal Ade’ to Entrepreneurial Children Thwarted by Regulations
Opinion -Operating a business generally requires a permit, and food-sellers are subject to the requirements of state and local health codes. -
U.S. Methane Emissions Much Lower than Previously Estimated, Study Finds
Opinion -A finds methane emissions from U.S. oil and natural gas production over the past decade are “an order of magnitude lower” than what has been reported by previous studies. -
The Case for a Coercive Green New Deal?
Opinion -Social and economic crises, real and imagined, often seem to bring out the most wrongheaded thinking in matters of government policy. -
Modern Transportation—A Miracle Under Attack
Opinion -Modern transportation is amazing. Each day, millions of people fly, drive, or are transported across our world for business, pleasure or to see distant family members. -
Trade With China Benefits American Consumers
Opinion -A new paper forthcoming in the journal American Economic Review: Insights estimates the effect of trade with China on American consumers and shows us what we stand to lose if we don't end the trade war. -
IRS Roadmap Illustrates Complexity of Federal Tax System
Opinion -“Subway map” illustrates the tangled taxpaying process, from getting answers to tax law questions up through audits, appeals, and litigation
