Opinion
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China to Take Climate Leadership Post-Trump Paris Pull-Out
Opinion -Legacy Climate Change Weekly -Climate Change Weekly #253 -
A Principled Tax Reform Allows Expensing of all Business Costs
Opinion -Editorial -Classic tax reform involves reducing rates in return for closing loopholes. But what is a loophole? Is any deduction a loophole? -
D.C. Appeals Court Pauses Clean Air Litigation, Per Trump Request
Opinion -environment-climate-news -In response to a request by the Trump administration, a 10-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia has ordered a pause in litigation over air-quality rules proposed by the Obama EPA. -
PRESS RELEASE: Heartland Institute Experts Comment on New York Bill to Ban Vaping Where Smoking Is Banned
Opinion -Editorial -"Treating e-cigarettes like cigarettes can’t possibly lower exposure to secondhand smoke, because there is no secondhand smoke from e-cigarettes." - Jeff Stier -
Wind Power: High Environmental Costs, Limited Energy Delivered
Opinion -Editorial -Even when environmentalists admit wind power is more expensive than conventional fuel sources—and they often lie and claim it isn’t—wind advocates argue its environmental benefits are worth the added costs. -
A Pound of Prevention
Opinion -Editorial -The shooting incident in the Virginia ball park was barely over before politicians began crying for gun control. -
Climate Alarmists: Abort Your ‘Extra’ Children
Opinion -Editorial -In his new Netflix series, "Bill Nye Saves the World," the show’s eponymous host asked a group of panelists, including one of the Georgetown professors, “Should we have policies that penalize people for having extra kids in the developed world?” -
California’s Bogus ‘Renewable Energy’
Opinion -Editorial -California's lofty goal of renewable energy is nothing more than a pipe dream. -
Obama’s IRS 2.0 (Or 3.0…4.0?…Or Is It…?)
Opinion -Editorial -Remember the Barack Obama Administration’s Internal Revenue Service (IRS) scandal? -
Reverse Obama’s Net-Neutrality Power Grab
Opinion -Editorial -The Federal Communication Commission’s (FCC) recent vote to begin the process of undoing an Obama-era power grab is the right solution for putting consumers—not lobbyists and lawmakers—in the innovation driver’s seat. -
Teachers Union President Reiterates Opposition to Giving Families Options
Opinion -school-choice-weekly, Editorial -School Choice Weekly #183 -
Parents, What You Don’t Know Is Hurting Your Kids
Opinion -Editorial -SEL: The State as proxy parent. -
The Power To (Over)Tax – Is The Power To Destroy
Opinion -Editorial -The late Supreme Court Chief Justice (amongst many other impressive gigs) John Marshall rightly noted “The power to tax – is the power to destroy.” The power to OverTax, of course – will destroy even more. -
Caution: AMA Ponders Calling Health Care a Right
Opinion -Editorial -The idea that healthcare is a right might sound kind and compassionate, but in reality it is self-serving to those who would profit from Big Government in medicine. -
California Passes Country’s Toughest Methane-Emissions Regulations
Opinion -environment-climate-news -California’s Air Resources Board has passed the nation’s strictest methane-emissions regulations requiring onshore and offshore oil and gas operations to cut emissions 45 percent over the next nine years. -
Trump’s Paris Climate Choice Puts America First
Opinion -Editorial -In a much-anticipated decision, President Donald Trump kept his campaign promise by announcing recently that the United States will withdraw from the Paris climate agreement negotiated by 195 countries in December 2015. -
Dare to Dream of a World Without Endless Debt-Ceiling Hikes
Opinion -Editorial -After legal limits on how much federal government debt could be issued returned in March, President Trump’s advisers began calling on lawmakers to increase the federal government’s authority to borrow and spend. -
Economic Ideas: Jean-Baptiste Say and the “Law of Markets”
Opinion -Editorial -Whatever economic freedom we enjoy in the world today is due, to a great extent, to the ideas and efforts of the classical liberals and economists of the first half of the nineteenth century. -
Parents, What You Don’t Know Is Hurting Your Kids
Opinion -Editorial -Schools are implementing social-emotional learning strategies at breakneck speeds. But are social-emotional learning standards and their interference in “interpersonal and behavioral skills” really as innocent and “nurturing” as led to believe? -
What About Those Trump Tapes? Much Ado About Nothing
Opinion -Editorial -Did President Trump record his meetings with Director Comey, or did he not? That is the question burning in the minds of Democrats. -
The Retirement Savings Problem
Opinion -Editorial -Americans seem to have a problem saving for retirement. This problem has implications for our own lives and for employer-provided pension plans. -
Heartland Weekly: Trump’s Paris Climate Choice Puts America First
Opinion -Editorial -In a much-anticipated decision, President Donald Trump kept his campaign promise by announcing the United States will withdraw from the Paris climate agreement. -
For Second Time, Portland Commits to 100 Percent Renewable Energy
Opinion -environment-climate-news -Portland, Oregon and Multnomah County have pledged to transition to 100 percent renewable energy by 2050. -
Join the Fight for Skepticism in Schools
Opinion -Editorial -Help overcome the indoctrination today.