Opinion
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The 1776 immigration fight America forgot — and why it matters now
Opinion -Editorial -A Virginia naturalization bill offered Protestant settlers 50 acres and cash. Thomas Jefferson struck the religious test, opening a debate that still shapes American identity. -
Climate Change Weekly # 594—Record Cold and Snow: the Rest of the Story
Opinion -Legacy Climate Change Weekly -Since its passage, the IRA resulted in billions of dollars being wasted on various green boondoggles. -
James Taylor on the Tom Woods Show: Climate Alarmism, Expensive Green Energy, and America’s AI Future
Opinion -Editorial -Heartland Institute President James Taylor joined libertarian author and podcast host Tom Woods for a wide-ranging conversation challenging climate alarmism and MUCH more. -
PRESS RELEASE: Heartland UK/Europe Slams Burnham’s North Sea U-Turn As ‘Too Little, Too Late’ After Years of Political Schizophrenia
Opinion -Press Release -Jackdaw approval exposes contradictions in government energy policy as industry warns that uncertainty, punitive taxation, and political interference are threatening billions in investment and thousands of British jobs. -
COP31’s Inconvenient Truth: The World Still Runs on Oil
Opinion -Without crude oil, there would be no iPhones, X-ray machines, or computers that need electricity in the first place. -
Heartland’s James Taylor on OAN: Blame French Riots on Marxist Radicals, Mass Migration
Opinion -Editorial -Violent riots are rocking France raising serious questions about mass migration, political extremism, and the future of Western civilization. -
What Would Democratic Socialism in America Be Like?
Opinion -We could be in the infant stages of a socialist revolution in America, if past is prologue. -
Heartland in Fox News: The far left wants to kill the tech that can create Trump’s golden age
Opinion -Editorial -While many in the Trump administration plan for a golden age, Bernie Sanders and his fellow socialists are promoting an entirely different future. -
Midterm Rebates
Opinion -President Trump recently proposed a $5,000 rebate for every American adult if the Republicans keep control of the House and Senate in the midterm elections. Unfortunately, the proposal legitimates an approach to governance guaranteed to doom conservatives. -
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Life, Liberty, Property #163: Yes, the Debanking Was Real After All
Opinion -budget-tax-news, Editorial -In addition to being a reprehensible element of a political mass movement that attempted to punish half the nation’s population for their political beliefs, the debanking campaign constitutes a thoroughly staggering and shameful misuse of government power, a scandal of historic proportions. -
Work Together To Save The Country
Opinion -Editorial -The generations need each other, need to empathize with and work together, to save the country from the real problem: far-left Democrats. -
AI expanding the frontier of human knowledge
Opinion -Editorial -AI is poised to transform virtually every aspect of our lives, including education, healthcare, logistics and advanced manufacturing. -
The Story of the 2026 Midterm Elections Is the Socialist Surge
Opinion -Editorial -The tide has turned. Socialists are on the upswing. -
How Heartland Helped Push Back Against ESG’s War on Dairy Farmers
Opinion -Editorial -Heartland's Samantha Fillmore was on the national radio show Agriculture in America to talk about how we helped defeat "Dairy Net Zero" -
California’s Energy Crisis Could Bring the West Coast to Its Knee
Opinion -California is the 4th largest economy in the world and an “ENERGY ISLAND" that is separated from the other 48 continental States by the Rocky and Sierra Nevada Mountain ranges. -
Heartland’s Anthony Watts on OAN | Trump’s Russian Diesel Deal: Will It Lower Fuel Prices?
Opinion -Editorial -Will Trump's deal with Putin on diesel actually provide relief for American consumers and businesses? -
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. -
Democratic Socialism Doomerism
Opinion -Doomerism is dangerous for society because it promotes a sense of desperation in which all measures to stop the supposed existential crisis must be used to save humanity. -
The Federal Scholarship Tax Credit Program Is Nearing
Opinion -Effective Jan. 1, the Federal Scholarship Tax Credit Program (FSTC)—part of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, signed into law by President Donald Trump in July 2025—will become the largest school-choice program in the U.S. -
We Must Embrace AI and Data Centers, Not Pause Them
Opinion -A data center is simply a building or warehouse filled with computers that generate heat as they meet countless growing needs across nearly every segment of modern society. -
The Refinery War and the Vulnerability of Modern Society
Opinion -The war in Ukraine is revealing something that is easy to overlook in peacetime: modern military power, like modern civilization itself, depends on continuous supplies of usable transportation fuels and other products made from crude oil. -
Climate Alliance’s Anti-affordability Platform Raises Big Election Issues
Opinion -Energy affordability is a central issue nationwide and the Democrats say they are all for it, but the Alliance platform says otherwise. -
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.