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Happy National School Choice Week!
Opinion -Although many Americans, me included, are not in a jolly mood given the awful winter storm that has made life outside unbearable the past few days, there is a reason to celebrate this week in the winter doldrums because it is National School Choice Week. Since 2011, National School Choice Week has helped “families learn […] -
Life, Liberty, Property #131: The Fraud Is Worse Than You Ever Imagined
Opinion -U.S. taxpayers have been victimized by at least $36 billion and possibly as much as $3 trillion in fraud through federal government entitlement programs since 2020, an investigative report by The Center Square states. The higher number is far more than most sources have suggested in the past. -
New Heartland Institute Book: How Wall Street Quietly Took Ownership of Your Investments
Opinion -Most Americans believe they own the stocks, bonds, and retirement assets in their investment accounts. Legally, they don’t. That reality carries massive implications for the security of Americans’ savings as the United States barrels toward its next major economic crisis. -
Government Regulations Keep Growing
Opinion -Editorial -The deterioration of our public education provides strong empirical evidence of the failure of government-run and government-regulated systems in providing good education. Unfortunately, it also provides strong evidence of the success of our bureaucrats in avoiding responsibility for their failures. The bureaucrats claim to pursue noble goals, and regulations keep growing, regardless of the harm […] -
Life, Liberty, Property #130: Will Economic Improvement Affect the Midterm Vote?
Opinion -Editorial -With all this good news, the regime media are desperately trying to spin it to cast doubt on the (conclusively proven) value of market-empowering reforms. Newsbusters reports on a typical example. -
World Prosperity Forum in Zürich, Switzerland Streams Today
Opinion -Press Release -The Heartland Institute will be streaming LIVE every day from Switzerland five straight days beginning January 19, 2026 Speakers will include former UK Prime Minister Liz Truss and former Czech Republic President Václav Klaus ZÜRICH, Switzerland (January 19, 2026) — The Heartland Institute today kicks off Day 1 of the World Prosperity Forum, running from January […] -
Climate Change Weekly # 568—Greenland, Arctic Undermine ‘Unusual Climate Conditions’ Narrative
Opinion -Legacy Climate Change Weekly -Since its passage, the IRA resulted in billions of dollars being wasted on various green boondoggles. -
Life, Liberty, Property #129: Minneapolis ICE Obstruction: ‘Resistance’ Is Now Open Rebellion
Opinion -Editorial -The shooting of a driver apparently attempting to escape from ICE agents and striking one of them with her SUV in Minneapolis is an appalling event. -
World Prosperity Forum Takes on the Globalist-Left’s World Economic Forum
Opinion -Press Release -The Heartland Institute will be streaming LIVE every day from Switzerland five straight days beginning January 19, 2026. -
Climate Change Weekly # 567—A Meaningless Number Drives Climate Policy
Opinion -Legacy Climate Change Weekly -Since its passage, the IRA resulted in billions of dollars being wasted on various green boondoggles. -
Heartland Institute Experts Applaud U.S. Withdrawal from United Nations Climate Treaty
Opinion -Press Release -"The UNFCCC was a misguided effort from its very beginning." -
Life, Liberty, Property #128: 2025 Breakdown
Opinion -Editorial -The events of the years 2020 through 2024 cast enormous doubt on the competence and decency of American government [and] all the nation’s other institutions. The past year accelerated that shattering of illusions. -
Affordability Crisis: Gavin Newsom’s California Energy Disaster
Opinion -Editorial -California is an energy affordability disaster. -
Reverse Pyramid Scheme: Average Annual State Budget Is 37 Percent Federal Money
Opinion -Editorial -An alleged bulwark against the 50 states overspending like the federal government has been the old saw: “The states can’t print money.” -
Prosperity, Happiness, and Revolution
Opinion -Editorial -Capitalism is in the crosshairs of most progressive, post-modern, Marxist and anti-progress intellectuals and academics. Destroying capitalism would reduce our standard of living. But leftists might already be making Americans less happy than our prosperity should afford. Chris Rufo dissects the progressive assault in his excellent book America’s Cultural Revolution, including the work of the […] -
Crony Capitalism and Socialism
Opinion -Editorial -Voluntary transactions between consumers, firms, employees, and investors and direction using coercive commands, or capitalism and socialism, provide alternative ways to organize an economy. America’s mixed economy is neither capitalist nor socialist. But government favors for business, or “crony capitalism,” may be increasing support for socialism. Government can benefit businesses in numerous ways. Nobel prize […] -
40 Examples of Fake News in 2025
Opinion -Editorial -For the purpose of media accountability, Just Facts has summarized 40 misleading claims spread by journalists, commentators, and so-called fact checkers during 2025. Each example quotes a specific media outlet, but the vast bulk of these falsehoods and half-truths were spread by multiple news sources, and some were propagated by dozens. 1: Climate Change and Biodiversity Loss An Associated Press article published by PBS in December claimed that “climate change” is making […] -
U.S. Colleges Are Rapidly Losing Relevance. Students Should Consider Other Options
Opinion -Editorial -Students are less prepared than ever for college, but grade inflation continues. -
MAGA Socialists?
Opinion -Editorial -The MAGA movement has never seemingly embraced socialism. Does this portend a socialist future? -
The World’s Population Explosion Demands New Energy and Electricity Channels
Opinion -Editorial -Utilizing but not replenishing the natural resources of Planet Earth has limitations. -
“Stupid in America” Turns 20
Opinion -Editorial -Many American public schools have become perverse, left-wing failure factories, putting the nation at risk. -
Destroying Countrysides to Save Earth from a Climate Non-crisis
Opinion -Editorial -Make-believe renewable energy hammers croplands, habitats, scenery – and families. -
Europe Threatens American Free Enterprise
Opinion -Editorial -The CSDDD’s scope is enormous. -
PRESS RELEASE: Public Interest Groups Applaud the Trump Administration’s Order Halting the Virginia Wind Project
Opinion -Press Release -National security concerns with Virginia Wind have been documented by the Navy for years
