https://redstate.com/author/heartlandinstitute/feedConservative News & Politicsen-usThu, 23 Apr 2026 19:54:48 -0400<![CDATA[By Chris Talgo]]>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 06:00:00 -0400<![CDATA[The Heartland Institute]]><![CDATA[Communism]]><![CDATA[Education]]><![CDATA[Florida]]><![CDATA[History]]><![CDATA[Ron DeSantis]]>https://redstate.com/heartlandinstitute/2026/04/22/floridas-history-of-communism-law-what-americans-need-to-know-n2201515<![CDATA[By&nbsp;Samantha Fillmore]]>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 06:15:00 -0400<![CDATA[The Heartland Institute]]><![CDATA[California]]><![CDATA[Energy]]><![CDATA[Green Energy]]><![CDATA[Nevada]]>https://redstate.com/heartlandinstitute/2026/04/21/turning-off-the-lights-on-lake-tahoe-in-the-name-of-data-centers-and-renewable-energy-n2201348<![CDATA[New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani celebrated his first 100 days in office at a former factory in Queens, where he touted his administration’s “historic achievements” like securing $1.2 billion for universal childcare and fixing 100,000 potholes, and announced the location of his first socialist pet project: a new city-owned grocery store.]]>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 06:30:00 -0400<![CDATA[The Heartland Institute]]>https://redstate.com/heartlandinstitute/2026/04/15/mamdani-announces-first-city-owned-grocery-store-bread-lines-coming-soon-n2201274<![CDATA[The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NAS) were chartered in 1863 to advise the nation on scientific and technical matters. That mission, at least in principle, sounds admirable. However, institutions should be judged not by their founding charters, but by their present conduct. And by that standard, it is increasingly difficult to justify the continued existence of the NAS in its current form.]]>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 06:00:00 -0400<![CDATA[The Heartland Institute]]><![CDATA[Academia]]><![CDATA[Climate Change]]><![CDATA[EPA]]><![CDATA[Judges]]>https://redstate.com/heartlandinstitute/2026/04/03/from-science-to-advocacy-why-the-national-academies-should-be-disbanded-n2200899<![CDATA[By Chris Talgo]]>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 06:30:00 -0400<![CDATA[The Heartland Institute]]>https://redstate.com/heartlandinstitute/2026/04/01/no-kings-puppets-push-for-communist-revolution-in-america-n2200825<![CDATA[America has a quickly growing waste problem. I’m talking about how to dispose of or treat the vast, rapidly increasing amount of waste tied to the wind and solar energy, which the federal and various state governments have obsessed over, subsidized, and mandated.]]>Wed, 25 Mar 2026 06:00:00 -0400<![CDATA[The Heartland Institute]]><![CDATA[EPA]]><![CDATA[Green Energy]]><![CDATA[Illinois]]><![CDATA[Indiana]]><![CDATA[Texas]]>https://redstate.com/heartlandinstitute/2026/03/25/americas-real-waste-problem-wind-and-solar-waste-is-piling-up-n2200567<![CDATA[For more than 15 years, Fox News has periodically asked registered voters: “Do you think it would be a good thing or a bad thing for the United States to move away from capitalism and more toward socialism?”&nbsp;]]>Wed, 11 Mar 2026 06:15:00 -0400<![CDATA[The Heartland Institute]]><![CDATA[Education]]><![CDATA[Polling]]><![CDATA[Socialism]]>https://redstate.com/heartlandinstitute/2026/03/11/new-fox-news-poll-shows-socialism-is-surging-n2200068<![CDATA[It has been about a decade since Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) introduced America to what he calls “democratic socialism,” when he almost captured the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination in 2016.]]>Wed, 04 Mar 2026 06:00:00 -0500<![CDATA[The Heartland Institute]]>https://redstate.com/heartlandinstitute/2026/03/04/america-literally-cannot-afford-democratic-socialism-n2199792<![CDATA[New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani released his Fiscal Year 2027 Preliminary Budget, which includes $14 billion in new spending, while warning that he might have to “balance the budget on the backs of working and middle-class New Yorkers.”]]>Tue, 24 Feb 2026 06:00:00 -0500<![CDATA[The Heartland Institute]]><![CDATA[Economy]]><![CDATA[Kathy Hochul]]><![CDATA[New York]]><![CDATA[Socialism]]><![CDATA[Zohran Mamdani]]>https://redstate.com/heartlandinstitute/2026/02/24/mamdanis-socialist-agenda-will-squeeze-the-middle-class-n2199461<![CDATA[As a long-time libertarian and former public high school teacher, I generally resist mandates designed to micromanage how educators perform their craft.]]>Wed, 18 Feb 2026 06:30:00 -0500<![CDATA[The Heartland Institute]]><![CDATA[Communism]]><![CDATA[Education]]><![CDATA[Florida]]><![CDATA[Ron DeSantis]]><![CDATA[Socialism]]>https://redstate.com/heartlandinstitute/2026/02/18/curriculum-standards-should-mandate-that-teachers-teach-the-truth-about-socialism-n2199263<![CDATA[New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is an ardent climate alarmist who oversees the nation’s largest school district, the New York City Public Schools (NYCPS) system.&nbsp;]]>Tue, 10 Feb 2026 06:15:00 -0500<![CDATA[The Heartland Institute]]><![CDATA[Climate Change]]><![CDATA[Education]]><![CDATA[Green Energy]]><![CDATA[New York]]><![CDATA[Zohran Mamdani]]>https://redstate.com/heartlandinstitute/2026/02/10/zohrans-green-schools-for-a-healthier-new-york-city-is-a-monumental-waste-of-money-n2198966<![CDATA[New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s&nbsp;education platform is loaded with socialist slogans like ensuring “public schools are fully funded with equally distributed resources” and “free childcare for every New Yorker aged 6 weeks to 5 years.”]]>Wed, 04 Feb 2026 07:00:00 -0500<![CDATA[The Heartland Institute]]><![CDATA[Education]]><![CDATA[New York]]><![CDATA[Socialism]]><![CDATA[Zohran Mamdani]]>https://redstate.com/heartlandinstitute/2026/02/04/mamdanis-socialist-education-agenda-will-further-harm-nyc-public-school-students-n2198793<![CDATA[In 2008, I had recently graduated from college and was just beginning my professional career. I will never forget how different things were before and after the housing crisis/Great Recession. To be frank, I don’t think America has truly recovered fully from the widespread economic turmoil that occurred during and after the 2008 financial crisis.]]>Fri, 30 Jan 2026 06:15:00 -0500<![CDATA[The Heartland Institute]]><![CDATA[Economy]]><![CDATA[Inflation]]>https://redstate.com/heartlandinstitute/2026/01/30/the-next-big-crash-could-wipe-everyone-out-except-wall-street-n2198632<![CDATA[During President Joe Biden’s term, school choice was generally shunned, certainly not celebrated, by the administration.]]>Thu, 29 Jan 2026 06:00:00 -0500<![CDATA[The Heartland Institute]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]><![CDATA[Education]]><![CDATA[Joe Biden]]><![CDATA[Linda McMahon]]><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]>https://redstate.com/heartlandinstitute/2026/01/29/unlike-biden-trump-honors-national-school-choice-week-n2198598<![CDATA[On hearing that the president of the United States has implemented an executive order titled “Stopping Wall Street from Competing with Main Street Homebuyers,” the first thing that comes to mind for any proponent of individual rights and limited government is that it is a very bad idea.]]>Wed, 28 Jan 2026 06:00:00 -0500<![CDATA[The Heartland Institute]]><![CDATA[Economy]]><![CDATA[Inflation]]><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]>https://redstate.com/heartlandinstitute/2026/01/28/trumps-homeownership-executive-order-a-much-needed-bad-idea-n2198554<![CDATA[By Chris Talgo]]>Wed, 14 Jan 2026 06:00:00 -0500<![CDATA[The Heartland Institute]]><![CDATA[Education]]><![CDATA[Socialism]]>https://redstate.com/heartlandinstitute/2026/01/14/mayor-mamdani-and-ms-rachel-want-the-government-not-parents-to-raise-nyc-kids-n2198088<![CDATA[During the 1950s, oil-laden Venezuela was the second-largest producer of crude oil and the fourth-richest nation in the world as measured by gross domestic product (GDP) per capita.&nbsp;]]>Wed, 07 Jan 2026 06:00:00 -0500<![CDATA[The Heartland Institute]]><![CDATA[Economy]]><![CDATA[Socialism]]><![CDATA[Venezuela]]><![CDATA[Nicolás Maduro]]>https://redstate.com/heartlandinstitute/2026/01/07/two-decades-of-socialism-destroyed-venezuela-n2197827<![CDATA[The Vermont Tax Department is forecasting a 12 percent increase in property taxes for the upcoming 2027 fiscal year, which makes for a total property tax increase of 41 percent over the past five years.]]>Tue, 06 Jan 2026 07:00:00 -0500<![CDATA[The Heartland Institute]]><![CDATA[Economy]]><![CDATA[Education]]><![CDATA[Vermont]]>https://redstate.com/heartlandinstitute/2026/01/06/vermont-drifts-toward-a-property-tax-doom-spiral-n2197765<![CDATA[The Trump administration just delivered an early Christmas present to the American people, especially those located on the Eastern Seaboard and whale lovers.&nbsp;]]>Tue, 23 Dec 2025 06:15:00 -0500<![CDATA[The Heartland Institute]]><![CDATA[China]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]><![CDATA[Energy]]><![CDATA[Green Energy]]><![CDATA[Military]]><![CDATA[National Security]]>https://redstate.com/heartlandinstitute/2025/12/23/gone-with-the-wind-n2197383<![CDATA[Given the fact that the United States basically liberated Europe from Nazi domination during World War II and then helped it rebuild, one would think that Europe, even all these years later, would refrain from bullying its savior. However, that is not the case.]]>Thu, 18 Dec 2025 06:30:00 -0500<![CDATA[The Heartland Institute]]><![CDATA[Artificial Intelligence]]><![CDATA[Economy]]><![CDATA[European Union]]><![CDATA[Free Speech]]>https://redstate.com/heartlandinstitute/2025/12/18/europe-has-no-business-regulating-american-ai-n2197215