Podcasts
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Pulling Back The Media’s Veil of Deceit – In The Tank #487
Podcast -The Heartland Institute’s Donald Kendal, Jim Lakely, and Chris Talgo present episode 487 of the In The Tank Podcast. Former ITT host Donald Kendal returns after only a few months and the world has gone insane. Suddenly, the left is burning the most popular electric vehicles while a Republican President promotes them in front of […] -
Trump vs. The World – In The Tank #486
Podcast -The Heartland Institute’s Tim Benson wrote a paper analyzing the money funneled to green groups through the Inflation Reduction Act, where everything predictably cost way more than our government claimed. The Supreme Court decided that a district judge could tell the President when and how to pay USAID contractors, and Canada retaliates against Trump’s tariffs. […] -
Ascent to Power: How Truman Emerged from Roosevelt’s Shadow and Remade the World (Guest: David L. Roll)
Podcast -Heartland’s Tim Benson is joined by David L. Roll, founder of the Lex Mundi Pro Bono Foundation, to discuss his latest book, Ascent to Power: How Truman Emerged from Roosevelt’s Shadow and Remade the World. They chat about Truman’s struggles to emerge as president in his own right after his accidental ascension to the office […] -
Backbone of Climate Agenda Endangered – The Climate Realism Show #147
Podcast -Big news this week as EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin has reportedly told the White House it should officially abandon the ruling that greenhouse gases pose a threat to human health and welfare. The so-called “endangerment finding” for carbon dioxide and methane emissions forms the backbone of government regulations to “fight climate change” by heavily regulating […] -
Conflict of Interest: Medical Boards Serving Doctors or Patients?
Podcast -Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) could significantly improve coverage, especially for gig workers and those seeking direct care options. -
Is it Over for the MSM? – In The Tank #485
Podcast -The FBI is investigating an alleged “honeypot” operation against the 2016 Trump campaign, in which Comey’s FBI may have planted female agents to try to compromise Trump. It has been a tough week for our mainstream media elites—multiple MSM personalities were fired or retired, and Jake Tapper is pretending he wasn’t involved in covering up […] -
The Truth About Climate Change and “Green” Energy: C. Michael Hogan, Ph.D.
Podcast -Physicist C. Michael Hogan says the evidence shows that we do not face a climate crisis and that there is no existential threat. Instead, now, as throughout history, a warmer world is improving life. Attempts to fight climate change by forcing wind, solar, and battery power onto the grid are undermining the nation’s electric power […] -
Exposing the Climate Grift – The Climate Realism Show #146
Podcast -Elon Musk's DOGE crew continues to shine a light on how our federal government operates, and it is exposing more climate grift than even the most cynical among us could have imagined. -
All the Narratives are Collapsing – In The Tank #484
Podcast -The “experts” are still trying to rewrite the narrative on the government response to COVID, and one of President Trump’s picks supports the questionable PRO Act. Meanwhile, VP Vance had strong words for the Orwellian language controls in Germany, and DOGE continues to uncover corrupt and wasteful government spending. The Heartland Institute’s Linnea Lueken, Jim […] -
Brought Forth on This Continent: Abraham Lincoln and American Immigration (Guest: Harold Holzer)
Podcast -Heartland’s Tim Benson is joined by Harold Holzer, director of the Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College, to discuss his latest book, Brought Forth on This Continent: Abraham Lincoln and American Immigration. They chat about the immigration situation in the United States in the 30 years leading up the Civil War, how immigrants […] -
- Environment & Climate News
EPA Returning ‘Gold Bars’ to Taxpayers – The Climate Realism Show #145
Podcast -The good news for climate realists and better governance in the Trump administration is piling up so fast it is difficult to keep up. As we covered on this show on December 6, a bit of undercover journalism by Project Veritas exposed a left-wing staffer at the Environmental Protection Agency admitting that he and others […] -
Curing Our Sick Public Health Policy – In The Tank Podcast #483
Podcast -Carefully constructed narratives and funding related to public health are being re-evaluated by this new administration, bringing sunlight to disinfect a contaminated NIH. Critics of President Trump and DOGE claim that Trump’s actions represent a Constitutional crisis, Politico finally admits that Democrats were wrong to claim the economy was great under Biden, and RFK’s confirmation […] -
Conflict of Interest: Medical Boards Serving Doctors or Patients?
Podcast -In this episode of Health Care News, hosts AnneMarie Schieber and Devon Herrick dive into the critical debates shaping health care today. They discuss the potential expansion of Health Savings Accounts (HSAs), exploring proposals from Rep. Chip Roy and policy experts who argue HSAs could significantly improve coverage, especially for gig workers and those seeking […] -
Kent State: An American Tragedy (Guest: Brian VanDeMark)
Podcast -Heartland’s Tim Benson is joined by Brian VanDeMark, professor of history at the United States Naval Academy, to discuss his latest book, Kent State: An American Tragedy. They chat about the context of the divided cultural landscape of America during the Vietnam War and heightened popular anxieties around the country, how the shootings came to […] -
Unleashing American Energy: Restoring Sanity to U.S. Energy Policy
Podcast -Join us as we dive into President Trump’s bold “Unleashing American Energy” executive order—a decisive move to free America’s most valuable resources, from coal and oil to natural gas and nuclear power. In this episode, we contrast this strategic shift with policies favoring costly, unreliable renewable alternatives, and explore how a return to sensible energy […] -
The Trump Effect on the Global Climate Agenda – The Climate Realism Show #144
Podcast -President Trump has struck the Biden administration’s climate and energy policy like a hurricane – from increasing energy exploration and extraction, to letting 1,000 employees at the Environmental Protection Agency know they could be fired at any time, to taking all mentions of climate change from the website of the Department of Agriculture, and more. […] -
Is DOGE Breaking Washington, or Fixing it? – In The Tank #482
Podcast -The Trump administration’s efforts to dismantle the status quo continue, causing the right people to worry about their next paychecks. Nations around the world are coming to the negotiation table on subjects no one thought they would, while some very unstable individuals are attempting to incite violence in retaliation against Trump’s efforts. The Heartland Institute’s […] -
Mirrors of Greatness: Churchill and the Leaders Who Shaped Him (Guest: David Reynolds)
Podcast -Heartland’s Tim Benson is joined by David Reynolds, emeritus professor of international history at Christ’s College, Cambridge University, to discuss his latest book, Mirrors of Greatness: Churchill and the Leaders Who Shaped Him. They reevaluate Churchill’s life by viewing it through the eyes of his allies and adversaries like Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, FDR, Chamberlain, Attlee, […] -
- Environment & Climate News
Trump’s Blizzard of Climate and Energy Orders
Podcast -Heartland's Sterling Burnett talks about President Trump withdrawing the US from the Paris Climate Agreement and other executive orders. -
Suing Big Oil for LA Fires is All Wet – The Climate Realism Show #143
Podcast -The historic and devastating fires in Los Angeles exposed the incompetence of leaders such as Gov. Gavin Newsom and Mayor Karen Bass. So how do state legislators want to address that? By allowing victims who had their lives destroyed sue Big Oil. Of course. The Heartland Institute’s Anthony Watts and Jim Lakely blow holes in […] -
Trump’s YUUUGE First 10 Days – In The Tank #481
Podcast -It’s an understatement to say that Donald Trump hit the ground running to start his interrupted second term. The speed and precision with which he has canceled nearly every achievement of the Biden nothing this country has ever seen before. It is simply breathtaking, and happening at such a frenetic pace it is difficult to […] -
Serpent in Eden: Foreign Meddling and Partisan Politics in James Madison’s America (Guest: Tyson Reeder)
Podcast -Heartland’s Tim Benson is joined by Tyson Reeder, assistant professor of history at Brigham Young University, to discuss his new book, Serpent in Eden: Foreign Meddling and Partisan Politics in James Madison’s America. They chat about the espionage, shadow diplomacy, foreign scheming, and domestic backstabbing in the formative years of the American republic, and […] -
A New Golden Age For America – In The Tank #480
Podcast -At the beginning of his inaugural address, President Donald Trump declared "The golden age of America begins right now." -
- Environment & Climate News
Making Climate Policy Sane Again – The Climate Realism Show #142
Podcast -President Trump wasted no time reversing all of Biden’s executive orders that made climate alarmism and “green” energy the focus of the government.