Opinion
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The Political and Economic Mystiques of State Power
Opinion -One of the great political mysteries has been the success of governments in ruling over societies with little opposition and resistance from the vast majority of the population. -
Legislative Pulse: Wyoming Wins Wolf, Monument Battles
Opinion -Wyoming state Sen. Bruce Burns (R-Sheridan) says Wyoming's struggles have a lot to teach the country concerning relations with the federal government over endangered species and national monuments. -
Why Do College Students Want Freedom From Speech?
Opinion -Responding to U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ announcement the Trump administration will begin siding with plaintiffs in challenging public universities that fail to uphold freedom of speech. -
ESAs Present Lawmakers with a Golden Opportunity to Help New Hampshire Kids
Opinion -In April, the New Hampshire House of Representatives had a golden opportunity to do something heroic for Granite State kids by passing a universal education savings account (ESA) bill, but it flinched at the last minute and “retained” it in committee -
PRESS RELEASE: Heartland Institute Expert Reacts to Columbus Denying Soccer Team Owner’s Subsidy Demands
Opinion -"Sports stadium subsidies primarily help team owners, not the public." - Jesse Hathaway -
Military Families Want More Flexibility in Education, Survey Finds
Opinion -School Choice Weekly #196 -
Burlington Telecom Has Failed
Opinion -Burlington Telecom is an example of why municipal telecom and other similar government projects don't work. -
Delaware Revisits Offshore Wind Energy
Opinion -Delaware Gov. John Carney issued an executive order directing the state government to create a “working group” to explore the potential economic and environmental benefits of offshore wind development. -
The Economics of Protest
Opinion -There is a difficult paradox between the NFL protests today directly at the center of the debates: it may be American to have the right to protest, but it may be un-American to choose to use it. -
BLM Proposes Oil and Gas Leases in Utah
Opinion -The U.S. Bureau of Land Management has proposed leasing 75 parcels for oil and gas production in Utah’s Duchesne, Uintah, and Emery counties in December, including one parcel near Utah’s Dinosaur National Monument. -
The Obama EPA’s Crooked Prosecutors
Opinion -The agency’s carbon dioxide climate “endangerment finding” was a kangaroo court process. -
Will Questioning Climate Change Become Illegal in Canada?
Opinion -Ecojustice wants government “cops” to investigate, punish and silence dissent. -
To Lure Foxconn, Wisconsin Waives Environmental Regulations
Opinion -The state of Wisconsin is waiving several environmental regulations as part of a deal that enticed Taiwanese company Foxconn to build a high-tech manufacturing plant in Wisconsin. -
This Year’s Atlantic Hurricane Season Has Not Been Historically Unusual
Opinion -The waxing and waning of powerful hurricane seasons is not new. -
Heartland Weekly: Nobel Board Foolishly Awards Micromanaging Fake ‘Libertarian’ Its Economics Prize
Opinion -On Monday, the Norwegian socialists who decide who gets the Nobel Prize in economics chose another proponent of “behavioral economics,” the University of Chicago’s Richard Thaler. It was a poor choice. -
DANGER: Rising Debt Levels
Opinion -Global debt levels reached an astronomical $217 trillion in the first quarter of 2017. -
PRESS RELEASE: Heartland Institute Experts React to President Trump’s Health Care Executive Order
Opinion -"Attention Congress, this is what leadership looks like." - Tim Huelskamp -
Time to Fix our Broken Tax Code
Opinion -After a frustrating summer and a much-talked-about recess, congressional lawmakers have returned to Washington, D.C. to find their to-do list has piled up. -
Good Riddance to Bad Clean Power Plan
Opinion -Climate Change Weekly #265 -
How to Make Elite Colleges Less Elitist
Opinion -The facts are pretty damning: The Ivy League and other selective schools are bastions of privileged students. -
A Scientific Critique of EPA’s Proposed National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants [NESHAP] Rule
Opinion -The EPA fails to describe the scientific reality of natural processes that govern the cycling of Mercury in newly proposed National Emission Standards. -
Harvard’s Bogus ExxonMobil Study
Opinion -Harvard University's Naomi Oreskes and Geoffrey Supran are co-authors of a new, highly controversial study claiming that energy giant ExxonMobil purposefully misled the public on the dangers of climate change. -
Why It’s So Difficult to Reform Entitlement Programs: Friedrich Hayek and the Libertarian Perspective
Opinion -Republicans in Congress appear to be at an impasse in their efforts to reform health care programs. -
It Seems Some Politicians in Pennsylvania Were Just Blowing Smoke About Ending Vape Tax
Opinion -Vapers in the commonwealth are losing faith in the ability of their elected officials to alleviate the draconian tax placed on vape products.
