It’s Climate Week again in New York City. Hollywood celebrities, titans of global industries, high-ranking government officials from around the world, climate justice advocates, and other assorted weirdos are once again raising their voice in unison to make us destroy our economies and do what they say. We will have a look at the goings on and determine if these are the wails of a dying movement, or if they are changing their messaging without letting go of their quest for power.

On Episode 218 of The Climate Realism Show the Heartland Institute’s Sterling Burnett, Anthony Watts, Linnea Lueken, and Jim Lakely will discuss Climate Week with Tom Harris, executive director of the International Climate Science Coalition in Canada. We will also discuss some of the Crazy Climate News of the Week, including whether climate lawsuit money is drying up, how climate zealots are coming for your shower time, and an update on the disaster of electric buses.

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On In The Tank's "farewell" episode, the panel (plus special guests) enjoys a completely UNHINGED compilation of the craziness coming out of the DSA and Socialist movement, while warning that extremist activists should not be dismissed or ignored entirely.

From energy policy to emerging technology and socialism and everything in between, Heartland Institute staff reflect on the most important issues covered by In The Tank and at the Heartland Institute at large, and discuss what's coming next for the action-tank... and how to save America.

For America @ 250, this week in 1776 American spy Captain Nathan Hale was executed by the British for espionage, he was just 21 years old. He was not the only spy active for the Patriot cause, they were essential to uncovering conspiracies and warning Washington's forces. Spies during the Revolutionary War were willing to sacrifice everything, even their honor and their lives.
[5:16 PM]The Heartland Institute's Linnea Lueken, Jim Lakely, S.T. Karnick, Chris Talgo, Donald Kendal, and Samantha Fillmore will talk about all of this and more on this Final Episode of the In The Tank Podcast.

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Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin on Monday announced the repeal of an Obama/Biden rule that regulated emissions of greenhouse gases from power plants with the intent to shutter all coal and most natural gas power plants in America. This was a long-time coming and the usual climate doomers are upset. This is huge news, but what does the repeal of the rule really mean for the environment and your wallet.

On Episode 216 of The Climate Realism Show the Heartland Institute’s Sterling Burnett, Anthony Watts, Linnea Lueken, and Jim Lakely will discuss this news with Steve Milloy, who was on the transition team for EPA in President Trump’s first term. We will also be joined again by Heartland UK/Europe Director Lois Perry to discuss the Crazy Climate News of the Week, including climate change putting African rain summoning sorcerers at risk of being murdered.

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Rooftop solar sounds like the reasonable version of solar power. Panels on your own roof, no farmland paved over, lower bills for everyone. Heartland Institute's Linnea Lueken explains why the grid-connected version doesn't work that way.

Under net metering, utilities are typically required to buy rooftop solar power at retail rates instead of wholesale, so that electricity costs far more than power from an existing plant. Everyone else on the grid covers the difference. Solar owners also skip much of the grid maintenance cost and the expense of the backup generation that has to stay available for when the sun goes down.

Then there's the federal tax credit covering about a third of the install. Add it up and you get a subsidy flowing from people who can't afford solar panels to people who can.

Going fully off grid with your own batteries is a different conversation. Asking your neighbors to fund your roof is not.

Learn more at EnergyAtAGlance.com and Heartland.org.

The debate surrounding AI and whether or not (or even how) its development should be regulated is definitely heating up, with a flurry of mostly-Democrats coming out in favor of forcing a development slowdown in order to supposedly prevent a looming AI-apocalypse. Why are leaders from Anthropic saying they agree? Legitimate conspiracy and conspiracy theories abound, and the panel will discuss WHY this is happening, who might be responsible, and what the free market solution is.

Also, President Donald Trump is floating the idea of giving every adult in the country $5000... if Republicans win in the midterms. We discuss whether this is a catastrophe, how to make it less catastrophic or even a good idea (difficult to pull off), and whether this is just blatant political bribery that is fundamentally different than other political promises.

On UNHINGED: The fervor against the lone holdout juror in the Lindsay Clancy trial seems to have abruptly died now that everyone found out the juror is a black, Haitian immigrant who votes Republican.

And for America @ 250: We go from a confusing defeat at Kip's Bay to a pyrrhic victory at Harlem Heights as the American Revolution fully enters one of its darkest moments, in the loss of New York City.

The Heartland Institute's Linnea Lueken, Jim Lakely, and S.T. Karnick, will talk about all of this and more on Episode #552 of the In The Tank Podcast.

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Should America hit the brakes on AI? Anthropic's Dario Amodei says yes. Elon Musk agrees. Sam Altman wants to pace the frontier. JD Vance called the whole thing a possible Trojan horse.

Heartland Institute president James Taylor joins Victory News to push back on the growing chorus calling for a slowdown in AI development. With Dario Amodei, Elon Musk and Sam Altman all urging caution, and Rep. Anna Paulina Luna floating a kill switch, Taylor's position is blunt: a low tech America is a losing America, and falling behind China is the worst outcome on the table.

From there the conversation covers his free market case for data centers, and why the arguments against them keep collapsing. Taylor argues the public pressure is actually producing innovation in how tech companies source power and manage water and explains why Heartland backed the US withdrawal from the UN climate treaty, why "hottest ever recorded" is doing a lot of quiet work when the record only runs 100 years, and why cooling periods, not warming ones, historically brought failed crops and extreme weather.

Climate at a Glance is available on Amazon, and find more Climate Realism content at Heartland.org and @HeartlandInst on X.

Net Zero, overall, might be dying in Europe. It’s being rejected by voters in seemingly every election in recent years, and even Democrats here in America don’t talk about it anymore when it used to be a pillar of their platform. So why is something called “Dairy Net Zero,” a green zombie from the Biden administration, still alive in the United States? We will discuss what that is, and why it has to go.


On Episode 216 of The Climate Realism Show the Heartland Institute’s Sterling Burnett, Anthony Watts, Linnea Lueken, and Jim Lakely are back LIVE with special guest Samantha Fillmore to cover that story and some other Crazy Climate News of the Week. An Obama economic advisor finally admits what we all knew: green energy mandates make energy more expensive. College football schedules should be adjusted because of climate change? And cleaner air is a good thing … except it causes more global warming.


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September 11th, 2001, was one of the darkest days in U.S. history. Almost 3,000 Americans died, and it is not a stretch to argue that it changed the course of American life forever. While the lives lost were the worst impact by far, policy decisions made in the aftermath still hurt us today, many of which were foundational for today's powerful surveillance state. The panel will discuss their personal experience with the terror attack, and the bad policy that followed.

Also, The Heartland Institute has released an important study ranking states based on how they handle Medicaid. Government is very fond of wasting your money, but some states waste less than others. We look at what the difference is between the top performing states, and the worst.

For UNHINGED: One year after the assassination of Charlie Kirk, violence is still being celebrated by the left. It is ugly and vile and we're going to talk about it.

And for America  @ 250 - This week in 1776, The United States of America officially gets her name.

The Heartland Institute's Linnea Lueken, Jim Lakely, and S.T. Karnick, will talk about all of this and more on Episode #552 of the In The Tank Podcast.

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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis delivered the keynote address at The Heartland Institute's 42nd Anniversary Benefit Dinner on September 3, 2026, at the Palmer House Hilton in Chicago, where he was awarded the Heartland Liberty Prize.

DeSantis walks through the record: four consecutive years of budget reductions, retiring more than half of Florida's state debt, the nation's first universal school choice program, eliminating DEI from public universities, five-year tenure review, ESG out of the state pension, paycheck protection for public employee unions, and tort reform. He explains why he rejected the advice to trim his sails in a state everyone expected to turn blue — and how Florida went from 300,000 more registered Democrats to 1.5 million more registered Republicans.

He closes on America's 250th anniversary and what the founders actually risked, then takes audience questions on 2028, reopening Florida during COVID, the teachers unions, whether conservatives should stay in blue states, and the work of First Lady Casey DeSantis.

The Heartland Institute is one of the world's leading free-market think tanks, celebrating free markets, limited government, and individual freedom. Learn more at heartland.org.

CHAPTERS
0:00 Great to be in the Windy City
0:46 "When Republicans die and go to heaven, it looks a lot like Naples"
1:31 The cheat code: do the opposite of California, New York and Illinois
2:32 Four straight years of budget cuts
3:19 Retiring 52% of Florida's debt
3:52 Fewest state bureaucrats per capita in America
4:18 Universal school choice and eliminating DEI in higher ed
4:40 Tenure review every five years
5:15 Election integrity
5:49 Getting ESG out of the state pension fund
6:21 Immigration enforcement and Martha's Vineyard
6:51 Banning Sharia law; designating the Muslim Brotherhood and CAIR
7:18 Paycheck protection and the teachers unions
7:39 Tort reform and falling insurance rates
8:06 Civics in schools and the America 250 statues
8:30 Remaking the Florida Supreme Court
9:04 The rankings: #1 economy, #1 education, #1 parental rights
9:47 Why he got into politics — and the Obama book nobody read
11:38 Buckley said "stand athwart history and yell stop." That's not enough anymore.
12:44 The scoreboard: Fauci, the unions, Disney, Soros, BlackRock, Biden
13:55 "Florida was supposed to become a blue state"
15:31 The registration flip and a 1.5 million-vote win
18:17 Bold colors, not pale pastels
19:19 Young voters, socialism, and who really caused the affordability crisis
20:43 Crony capitalism and venture socialism
23:32 America at 250: what the founders put on the line
25:04 "Human nature has not changed one bit"
26:31 The job of a statesman
27:45 The sacred fire of liberty
29:07 Heartland Liberty Prize presentation
30:19 Cigar Aficionado and a box of Chicago cigars
32:28 Q&A: Will you run for president in 2028?
34:52 Q&A: Why Florida reopened before any other state
39:13 Q&A: What could fix Illinois
41:48 Q&A: Fight or flight from blue states?
44:18 Q&A: The Cancer Fund, opioids, and welfare reform