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The inaugural Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) testing scores for the State of Illinois were made available in...

What's past is prologue for the Hillary Health Plot, Part II. Just as she did in 1993, when she was the point person for the Clinton administration's health...

In this Research & Commentary, Matthew Glans examines a Medicaid expansion proposal in Oklahoma that would dramatically increase the costs of the program while...

Pharmaceutical companies, it seems, are not the bad guys after all. "Tracking Health Care Costs," a new study published by the journal Health Affairs, puts...

The announcement by the House Republican leadership that the Innovation Committee by a bipartisan vote of 24-8, but this vote was less convincing than the...

Jesse Jackson led a rally at the Thompson Center last Saturday, officially jumping on board the education funding reform bandwagon.

The Heartland Institute lost a huge chunk of funding and canceled its climate denial conference, thanks to backlash after an offensive billboard campaign and...

An award winner at a flagship conference for climate science deniers has compared their work to the heroics of firefighters during the 9/11 terrorist attacks...

Health policy experts around the nation have diverged sharply on the question of whether Medicaid provides high-quality, effective medical care to the poor.

Official NOAA temperature stations produce corrupted data due to purposeful placement in man-made hot spots

Polish labor union that stood up to the Soviet Bloc and changed the world joins Heartland on front lines of resistance to climate alarmism

The U.S. Supreme Court struck down a Maryland electricity subsidy scheme on April 20, 2016, concluding in a unanimous decision, in Hughes v.

Classic tax reform involves reducing rates in return for closing loopholes. But what is a loophole? Is any deduction a loophole?

The only climate conference dedicated to the examination of data rather than the propagation of dogma is back!

Geologists at the University of Cincinnati just wrapped up a three-year investigation of hydraulic fracturing and its impact on local water supplies.The...

People contribute to The Heartland Institute because they share our belief that better information can improve public policies.

Maryland legislators are in the midst of a major discussion on tax reform, one that includes corporate income tax reform and the possible implementation of a...

President Biden may be in hot water after Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) reported the FBI has information that might incriminate Hunter and the "big guy" on a...

A new state law allows New Jersey parents unsatisfied with the quality of their local school to enroll their children in a public school outside the borders of...

Education reformers in the United States recently have been arguing whether parental choice is a sufficient force in and of itself to transform public...

Another year has passed and that stubborn ozone hole over Antarctica refuses to go away. Data from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)...

In the early morning hours of October 1, while Michigan's state government was officially in the process of shutting down for lack of a legal budget, a few...

Robert L. Bradley Jr., CEO and founder of the Institute for Energy Research, is a leading expert on the history and regulation of energy markets.

Joseph A. Morris is a partner at the law firm of Morris & De La Rosa and is the chairman of The Heartland Institute Board of Directors.

You would think that a local government would vigorously oppose a company that forces people to install its equipment on their property and then charges them a...

One recommendation of the Indiana Commission on Local Government Reform is to eliminate township government in Indiana.

Dismayed by how little improvement in the quality of public education has taken place in the 15 years since publication of A Nation at Risk, a group of...

The vast majority of U.S. wood-burning stoves are now banned under Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rules that were finalized in February.

New Mexico produced nearly 246 million barrels of oil in 2018, up more than 40 percent from the previous year, setting a new record for oil production in the...

The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) is sometimes called the Nation's Report Card.

Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly (D) and Republican State Senate Majority Leader Jim Denning (R- District 8) announced a compromise proposal that would expand Medicaid...

Two recreational access advocacy organizations have succeeded in overturning a settlement agreement between Heartwood, Inc. and the U.S. Forest Service. The...

Week of September 3, 2018

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California's standardized STAR test scores, released July 22, showed that the state's English learners, while still substantially trailing their peers, made...

The founder of a non-profit health care organization for women gives his reasons for saying "no" to federal Title X family planning grants

Happy holidays to everyone! As we get ready to ring in 2012 it gives us a chance to reflect upon 2011. For The Heartland Institute we had one of the best years...

The U.S. Department of Education is proposing a new rule granting itself new power over how banks can work with colleges to assist with loan disbursements to...

Low-income parents in Cleveland who use publicly funded vouchers to send their children to private schools are more satisfied with key aspects of their child's...

State and local taxes imposed on telecommunications services continue to be more than double the average tax levied on general business, according to a recent...

Alex Epstein explains in philosophical terms how the public has been duped by the likes of Paul Ehrlich, John Holdren, Amory Lovins, and Bill McKibben for...

Continuing a trend of environmental activist groups misrepresenting data that contradict claims of global warming in individual states, New Jersey Sierra Club...

Oklahoma Gov. Brad Henry (D) on Tuesday signed a landmark bill granting parents of children with disabilities the right to choose the school their children...

Widespread availability of broadband technology, cutting-edge innovation in the industry, stiff competition among providers, and falling prices all mean the...

David J. Bellamy is an English botanist, international consultant, author of 44 books, and writer and presenter for some 400 television programs on botany,...

Scientists disagree on whether the mercury released by U.S. power plants poses a real threat to human health, but the political reality is that coal-fired...

Residents of picturesque Palestine, Texas went to the polls on September 11 and approved, by a 52 to 48 percent vote, the "legal sales of beer and wine for...

Government agencies are forcing us to spend countless billions on illusory risks and anti-fossil fuel mandates, while ignoring real threats to our livelihoods,...

Last month's School Reform News noted that an organization representing 32 of Indiana's largest school districts had called for a moratorium on charter school...

Latest Government Podcasts from Heartland Expert Team Members

Congressional Democrats are pushing through a plan that shift $288 billion away from Medicare drug spending and into Obamacare plans and Green New Deal...

A proposed bill in the United States Senate would mandate all consumers have access to free annual credit scores.

Ryan Noel just wanted his fellow teachers to see him receive money for his classroom.

From California to New York, taxpayers remain on the hook for billions of dollars in subsidies for stadium projects, even in the midst of the worst fiscal...

The Virginia state legislature is close to approving a bill that would establish a new education savings accounts (ESAs) program in the state.

This year, 2016, will mark the twentieth-fifth anniversary of the end of the Soviet Union from the political map of the world.

At an event in Milwaukee hosted by the Concord Coalition, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) and former Service Employees International Union President Andy Stern met to...

The New York City Bureau of Environmental Surveillance and Policy has petitioned the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to restrict the use of insect foggers.

I represent students and parents who are defendants in Johnson v.

While Congress and the President spent months negotiating, and finally passed, a $215 billion "highway bill," the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) appears...

The nuclear power industry in the United States has been held back by a dysfunctional, federally controlled, centrally planned system of nuclear waste...

Consumer Power Report, written by Greg Scandlen, director of Consumers for Health Care Choices at The Heartland Institute, is a weekly report summarizing...

If war is politics by other means, in the debate pitting climate change against energy development, one side is arming, as Russia uses climate agreements to...

In Februrary 2015, the Boston Globe, New York Times, and Washington Post ran stories repeating claims made by long-time Greenpeace staffer Kert Davies that Dr.

President Obama, and his administration, has enacted so many foolish and cost-increasing energy policies, it is easy to think that they are his purview alone....

Drug reimportation refers to allowing prescription drugs produced for use in another country to be imported into the U.S. for sale here instead. Because these...

Americans are taking a lot of risk buying prescriptions from foreign countries through storefront operations or over the Internet.

The upper East Coast got sacked with a foot or so of snow last weekend, and are going to be hit with another foot or so this week.

Week of July 29, 2019

Climate Change Weekly #394

Education is such a fundamental element of American life, we often take it for granted. Yet the fundamental nature of education is precisely what makes it the...

The success of cap-and-trade programs and other moves toward regulatory flexibility shows how little "experts" know about the best ways to control pollution....

Taxicab companies in Boston, Massachusetts are suing Gov. Charlie Baker (R) and Massachusetts lawmakers over recently approved restrictions on transportation...

Dec 1, 2025 - The European Union’s Artificial Intelligence Act (AI Act) is the world’s first comprehensive law governing artificial intelligence. While framed as a...

After approving the largest budget in American history, with a record deficit projected at more than $1.5 trillion, President Obama (D) and Congressional...

Recent reports show lower energy prices due to fracking have saved businesses, consumers, and homeowners more than $1 trillion over the past decade.

One of the central premises behind the concern that manmade greenhouse gas emissions may be causing dangerous global warming is that global temperatures have...

Review of The Math Myth: And Other STEM Delusions, By Andrew Hacker (The New Press, 2016), 240 pp.; $17.

An independent feasibility study of a convention center project to be funded largely by taxpayers in Lancaster, Pennsylvania concluded the project "should be...

If Congress or the media seek incisive oversight/accountability questions to ask the FCC about the real world implications and unintended consequences of its...

SPRINGFIELD--A conservative Burr Ridge executive criticized for his views against affirmative action will take a seat on the state community colleges board...

The year 2012 is breaking all-time records for lack of tornado activity, providing yet another embarrassing example of failed global warming predictions.

During the health care debate in the Senate, few lawmakers have attracted more attention than Democrat Senator Ben Nelson of Nebraska.

Medicaid providers in Idaho had their day in court in January when the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Armstrong v. Exceptional Child Center.