Opinion
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Declining Government Support for Electric Vehicles Could Boost Global Oil Demand, Report States
Opinion -environment-climate-news -Declining government support for policies promoting electric vehicles, and a slowdown in EV sales, could reinvigorate global oil markets, concludes a recent report by a Washington, D.C.-based firm specializing in global energy forecasts. -
Price Controls Attack the Freedom of Speech
Opinion -Editorial -We increasingly live in a new “dark age” of economic ignorance, and even stupidity. -
Politicians Are Scapegoating E-cigs for Harm They Haven’t Done
Opinion -Editorial -When there’s an outbreak of deaths or illnesses from injected street drugs, do public health authorities demand diabetics and doctors stop using syringes? -
Illinois Raises Gas Tax to Nation’s Third Highest
Opinion -budget-tax-news -After Illinois Doubled Its Gas Tax, the State Trails Only California and Pennsylvania. -
Budget-Busting Debt Ceiling Deal Strengthens Argument for Convention of States
Opinion -Editorial -Congress just gave us 1.7 trillion more reasons why a Convention of States could be our last, best hope to stop the out-of-control, debt-financed federal spending machine. -
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Heartland Weekly: We Need Public Discussion on Climate Change
Opinion -heartland-weekly, Editorial -Week of September 9, 2019 -
Twenty-Three States Push to Save California’s De Facto National Fuel Efficiency Standards
Opinion -environment-climate-news -The governors of 23 U.S. states have joined California in demanding the Trump administration reverse its proposal to withdraw California’s Clean Air Act waiver for automobile emissions. -
More Colleges Are Adopting Free-Speech ‘Chicago Principles’
Opinion -budget-tax-news, school-reform-news -The Report of the Committee on Freedom of Expression was composed by the University of Chicago to set a standard for protecting freedom of speech. -
Is a Recession Coming?
Opinion -Editorial -In a recent survey of business economists, only 4 percent said they expected a recession to begin by the end of the year. -
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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. -
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. -
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. -
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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- Environment & Energy
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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 -
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.” -
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. -
More Force Won’t Fix the American Diet
Opinion -Editorial -Two nutritionists (Dariush Mozaffarian and Dan Glickman) have sounded the alarm about the American diet, saying bluntly what most of us know intuitively to be true. -
Surprise Billing Laws Could Worsen the Problem, Study Warns
Opinion -health-care-news, News -Legislative efforts to address surprise billing can put patients into an even deeper hole financially while limiting their choices of treatment providers, concludes a new study by The Heritage Foundation. -
Big Corporations Make the American Dream Possible, Despite Candidates’ Claims
Opinion -budget-tax-news -Millions of Americans seem to think large corporations have made the American Dream possible. -
Alaska Hit with Lawsuit over Steps to Address Runaway Medicaid Costs
Opinion -health-care-news, News -In an effort to transform its financially troubled Medicaid program, the state of Alaska has implemented “emergency regulations” to cut Medicaid reimbursement rates and is working -
Trump Freezes Fines for Missing Obama-Era Fuel-Efficiency Standards
Opinion -environment-climate-news -The Trump administration has decided to freeze the cost of fines automakers must pay for missing increased Corporate Average Fuel Economy standards imposed by the National Highway Traffic and Safety Administration.
