Opinion
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PRESS RELEASE: The Heartland Institute Applauds Climate and Energy Provisions in Trump’s ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’
Opinion -Press Release -The budget reconciliation bill that passed the House Thursday morning eliminated the majority of "clean energy" tax credits and rolled back many of the Biden-era climate and energy mandates in the Inflation Reduction Act. -
Who Do Those Congressmen Think They Are?
Opinion -Editorial -The Congressional Review Act process is nothing more than Congress reasserting its authority to make laws. Vastly unpopular Energy Department rules banning gas water heaters, and imposing stringent appliance requirements, for example, have been overturned through this process, along with four regulations at the Interior Department, five at Labor, and three at EPA. -
California’s Doom Loop Is in Full Swing
Opinion -Editorial -The mountains are majestic, the seashore is splendid, but Golden State politics are pathetic. -
Small Businesses Stopped Hiring and Started Closing DECADES Ago
Opinion -Editorial -This is DC and Wall Street joining forces to wage war on Main Street. For decades. -
Intermittent electricity from renewables cannot support AI and data centers
Opinion -Editorial -The growing demand for continuous and uninterruptible electricity is being compounded by the growth of AI and data centers, which are humongous power consumers. -
California Schools Are A Mess
Opinion -The Golden State’s education priorities are terribly misguided, schools are bleeding students, and teachers are being laid off. -
Newsom Relinquishing Control to China to Meet the Energy Demands of Californians?
Opinion -California’s Governor Newsom has been on this planet for 57 years and has yet to publicly recognize that modern life requires the use of fossil fuels to function. -
Colorado River: The Sky is Falling, Again
Opinion -Every year for the past 25, at least, negotiating teams for the seven states on the Colorado River have worked to overcome a new crisis, invariably driven by two entities: the State of California and the federal Bureau of Reclamation. -
School Choice Update: The Good, The Bad, And The Controversial
Opinion -Overall, there are now 76 private school choice programs in 35 states, plus Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico, with 18 states offering universal choice. -
Heartland/Rasmussen Poll: 72% of Voters Concerned about AI, 78% Want Constitutional Rights Mandated for AI Systems
Opinion -72% of likely voters say they are “very” or “somewhat” concerned about AI. -
Heartland/Rasmussen Poll: Democrats Hope China Beats America in Trade War, Voters Overwhelmingly Reject Socialism
Opinion -Press Release -32% of Democratic voters say they “hope” that China “wins the tariff war” with the Trump administration. -
PRESS RELEASE: Heartland/Rasmussen Poll: 71% of Democrats Support Imprisoning Elon Musk for His Role at DOGE
Opinion -Press Release -Seven out of every ten Democratic voters would “strongly” or “somewhat” support “a hypothetical law that would imprison Elon Musk for his role in DOGE.” -
Climate Change Weekly # 543 —Current Climate Conditions Aren’t Historically Extreme or Unusual, New Research Shows
Opinion -Legacy Climate Change Weekly -Since its passage, the IRA resulted in billions of dollars being wasted on various green boondoggles. -
The Educational Choice for Children Act Can Improve Public Schools
Opinion -There are plenty of gripes about the public schools, but it is easy to understand why nothing gets fixed: the money keeps pouring in. Public school administrators often cry broke despite receiving billions of dollars from federal, state, and local governments. They run out of money because so much of what they get is wasted. For […] -
PRESS RELEASE: Heartland Institute Ships Climate at a Glance Book to 1,000 Meteorologists
Opinion -Press Release -Book intended to be reference material to help meteorologists share accurate, non-alarmist data and research about the climate. -
Misinformation About the Arrest of Judge Hannah Dugan
Opinion -The broadsides of Booker and the other high-profile progressives bear no resemblance to the facts of this case. -
The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly of Electric Vehicles
Opinion -The recently released documentary “Electric Vehicles: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly” isn’t just another documentary that lazily cheerleads the industry, though there is a fair amount of marveling at the technology and underscoring its benefits and potential. -
Measuring Performance in Education: Why Do Many Teachers Dislike It?
Opinion -If we really care about education, all government interference that favors the Prussian education system should be eliminated. -
Wind Power’s Eagle-Kill Permits Are a Deadly Failure so Permitting Must Stop
Opinion -The FWS should issue no more wind power eagle kill permits until this issue is resolved. -
We Built It, And They Still Won’t Come
Opinion -If left to state and local governments, redevelopment would be less onerous. -
Time to Defund Climate Models?
Opinion -Maybe it’s time for NASA to stick to space exploration, NOAA to stick to weather forecasting, and for the climate models to be shut down. -
Executive Action’s Shifting Sands – and the Power of Cronyism
Opinion -This style of unilateral policy-making is built upon shifting sands. Even if you can get this or that judge to allow it? The next opposing-party administration can reverse most or all of it. And it undoubtedly will. -
Climate Change Weekly # 542 — More Ways Coal Improves the Economy and the Environment
Opinion -Legacy Climate Change Weekly -Since its passage, the IRA resulted in billions of dollars being wasted on various green boondoggles. -
Education Battles Get National Attention
Opinion -SCOTUS will soon rule on cases involving sex and religion in the nation’s schools.