Opinion
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Climate Alarmists Push Panic Button
Opinion -Climate Change Weekly #236 -
PRESS RELEASE: Heartland Institute Experts React to Maryland Officials’ Letter to Ban Fracking
Opinion -“A ban on fracking in Maryland would be based on scary stories, not on science.” - Isaac Orr -
Study: Letting Pharmacists Write Prescriptions Cuts Costs, Increases Patient Access
Opinion -Allowing midlevel providers to write prescriptions is a free-market solution to health care cost and access problems. -
Policy Diagnosis: Today’s Health Insurance Crisis Stems from Federal Interference in 1943
Opinion -Hillsdale College Professor Dr. Gary Wolfram traces Obamacare's seeds to the 1940s, 50s, and 60s with alumnus and Michael T. Hamilton. -
‘Consumer Reports’ Recommends Increasing Federal Reporting for Hospitals
Opinion -The study's recommendations appear to overlook the failure of existing reporting requirements, Dr. Brian Sachs says. -
Mental Health Access Shortages Persist Despite State Political Climates
Opinion -The shortages pervade red, blue, and swing states. -
Paper Predicts U.S. Oil Production Growth
Opinion -A new paper says U.S. oil and gas production may be on the verge of significantly expanding, after months of decline due to low oil prices. -
Guest Article: Drain the FCC Swamp
Opinion -This obsolete vestige of the New Deal should be dissolved. -
Trump Promised To Get Tough On China’s ‘Massive’ Intellectual Property Theft…
Opinion -Trump’s choice of Lighthizer is excellent personnel – to finally deliver us the vastly improved Chinese IP policy candidate Trump promised. -
How to Replace Justice Scalia on the Supreme Court
Opinion -Six criteria for a return to originalism. -
President Obama Declares Record 26th, 27th National Monuments
Opinion -In the waning days of his presidency, Barack Obama designated two new national monuments, preventing a variety of uses on 1.65 million acres of land in Nevada and Utah. -
Nashville Public Schools Expands Free-Dinner Program for Students
Opinion -The Metro Nashville Public Schools district announced it is expanding its after-school program to include dinner for students at 35 locations. -
Montana Lawmakers Prepare Direct Primary Care Bill
Opinion -The bill would exempt direct primary care providers from insurance regulations. -
PRESS RELEASE: Heartland Institute Expert Reacts to Kentucky’s Right-to-Work Bill
Opinion -"By restricting government employees’ ability to go on strike and unfairly withhold government services as negotiating chips, the public’s safety and security is protected against such banal politics." - Jesse Hathaway -
Study: Two-Thirds of Medicaid Expansion Enrollees Were Already Eligible
Opinion -The finding implies the federal government has been paying far more than its share under the Affordable Care Act. -
New Mexico Mandates Districts Consider Attendance in Teacher Evaluations
Opinion -The New Mexico Public Education Department has changed its teacher evaluation system to mandate teacher attendance as a factor in rating teachers. -
President Obama Bans Offshore Drilling in North Atlantic and Arctic
Opinion -With only a month left in his term of office, President Barack Obama banned, possibly permanently, offshore oil and gas drilling in federal waters off the Atlantic coast and in the Arctic Ocean. -
Natural Gas Is The Future Of Energy, And It’s Not Even Close
Opinion -Natural gas is the wave of the future in U.S. and global electricity production, with no other power source even close to matching natural gas’s potential over the next few decades. -
Teachers Unions Given an Extra Week to Criticize Betsy DeVos
Opinion -School Choice Weekly #165 -
Why Republicans Should Let ObamaCare Self Destruct
Opinion -The Trump Administration and the Republican Congress is faced with a crisis in the Affordable Care Act. -
School Choice Must Continue To Be A Local Decision
Opinion -The morning after the Senate Committee held a confirmation hearing for Betsy DeVos, a more important development on the choice front came from down Florida way. -
PRESS RELEASE: Heartland Institute Experts React to Today’s ‘Day of Denial’ Protests by Radical Environmental Groups
Opinion -"Few people are better suited to undertake the radical reforms necessary to bring the federal regulatory behemoth to heel." - H. Sterling Burnett -
PRESS RELEASE: Fred Palmer Joins The Heartland Institute as Senior Fellow
Opinion -‘I am deeply honored by The Heartland Institute to be asked to serve as senior fellow on energy and climate.’ — Frederick D. Palmer -
Pipelines Are Safer than ‘Safe Sex’: a Brief Guide to Understanding Pipeline Safety
Opinion -Pipeline opponents say the spill is proof pipelines cannot be operated safely, but the truth is pipelines are much safer than many other human activities, including “safe sex.”