Opinion
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Liberty Relies on Rule of Law
Opinion -Our rights to life, liberty, and property depend on due process and full respect for the people's rights, privileges, and immunities. -
Press Release: ESG Is a Threat to Individual Liberty, Free Markets, and the U.S. Economy
Opinion -Press Release -Heartland Institute research explores how ESG is being implemented, and why it must be stopped. -
Life, Liberty, Property #3: Debt Threats
Opinion -Once again, the federal government’s malignant effect on the economy is our top story. Now it’s a debate over whether to raise the debt ceiling. -
Life, Liberty, Property #2: Are Investors Smarter Than the Fed?
Opinion -In the past few days, we’ve been hearing that financial markets show investors are regaining confidence in the economy. Are you? I'm not. -
The Importance of Liberty and the Rhetorical Misuse of Freedom
Opinion -Editorial -Collectivism is antithetical to individual liberty. -
America’s Fiscal History: From Liberty to Paternalism
Opinion -Editorial -America is at risk of a total societal transformation highlighted by trading individual liberty for social collectivization. -
Big Tech Censorship Is an Assault on Individual Liberty
Opinion -Editorial -Today, a small number of giant corporations have secured monopoly power over the primary means by which Americans exercise their free-speech rights. It’s time for change. -
Collectivism Breeds Indifference to the Loss of Liberty
Opinion -Editorial -The presumption of political paternalists to arrogantly command and control how we live, work, and interact in the face of the imposed shutdowns and lockdowns and the behavior constraints in the face of the coronavirus crisis -
Stakeholder Fascism Means More Loss of Liberty
Opinion -Editorial -A strong wave of anti-free market thinking and policy proposals are currently dominating the debates over the role of government in society -
Watchwords that Threaten Liberty
Opinion -Editorial -The ideas and ideals of classical liberalism have been and remain the only lasting answers to ending the real social and cultural ills that continue to plague parts of humanity around the world. -
Liberty Is the Theme of the American Spirit
Opinion -Editorial -If racial tensions persist and prevent more of a color-blind society, it is due to the politicizing of human affairs through the modern interventionist-welfare state. -
The Coronavirus and the Attack on Liberty and Privacy
Opinion -budget-tax-news, Editorial -Efforts to get us to accept and even support more of this government intrusion and data mining into our private affairs is one of the great dangers facing us in the coronavirus crisis. -
Partners in Liberty: The Caesar Rodney Institute
Opinion -environment-climate-news -The Caesar Rodney Institute (CRI) is a Delaware based non-profit, dedicated to protecting individual freedom, and free markets. -
Liberty Versus Political Paternalism
Opinion -Editorial -In Uncle Sam’s 2020 fiscal year that began on October 1, 2019, it is estimated that the federal government will spend around $4.4 trillion, of which about $1 trillion will be with borrowed money to cover the budget deficit of that amount. -
Partners in Liberty: Pacific Research Institute
Opinion -environment-climate-news -The Pacific Research Institute’s Center for the Environment researches the dramatic trend toward a cleaner environment and promotes the catalysts for environmental quality: property rights, local action, markets, and private initiative. -
Partners in Liberty: Texas Public Policy Foundation
Opinion -environment-climate-news -With the Life:Powered initiative, the Texas Public Policy Foundation explains and explores how fossil fuels—coal, natural gas, and oil—are essential to modern life. -
Partners in Liberty: National Center for Public Policy Research
Opinion -environment-climate-news -The National Center for Public Policy Research (NCPPR) was created not to be just another think tank but rather a “do tank” providing the freedom movement with what its founders called “missing ingredients for success.” -
Partners in Liberty: Cascade Policy Institute
Opinion -environment-climate-news -Cascade Policy Institute is Oregon’s free-market think tank. -
Partners in Liberty: Washington Policy Center
Opinion -environment-climate-news -The Washington Policy Center is a free-market, public policy think tank based in Seattle. The organization’s experts focus on several key areas of policy, including agriculture, education, environment, government reform, health care, and transportation. -
Politicized Veganism Threatens Human Health and Liberty
Opinion -environment-climate-news -Some politicians have joined anti-meat and climate change activists in a massive effort to restructure the American diet by mandating a worldwide plant-based diet. -
Partners in Liberty: The Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT)
Opinion -environment-climate-news -The Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT) was founded in 1985 to promote a positive, alternative voice on environmental and development issues within the United States and internationally. -
Partners in Liberty: The American Legislative Exchange Council
Opinion -environment-climate-news -The American Legislative Exchange Council is America’s largest nonpartisan, voluntary membership organization of state legislators dedicated to the principles of limited government, free markets, and federalism. -
Partners in Liberty: Mackinac Center for Public Policy
Opinion -environment-climate-news -The Mackinac Center for Public Policy is a Michigan-based free-market think which, when considering whether to take up a policy issue in the state, asks, “If not Mackinac, who?” -
30 Years After Fall of Berlin Wall, Let’s Tear Down Wall of Dogma That Thwarts Our Liberty
Opinion -Editorial -On Nov. 9, 1989, the Berlin Wall fell as thousands of East Berliners celebrated their liberation from the giant communist prison camp.