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The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the teachers unions and others in the education establishment as a Hydra that will go to great lengths to insure that in-person learning is denied throughout the country

By most measures of income, yes, but income does not account for the cost of living. 

Last week, the New York City Council approved a resolution declaring a climate emergency that it hopes will mobilize efforts to forestall the devastation of purported global warming from greenhouse gas emissions.  

While visiting Central Europe in November and December 2018 in conjunction with the United Nations climate conference in Katowice, Poland, I was quite struck by the drab and depressing architecture.

Global usage of natural gas continues to grow rapidly. Gas is an essential low-cost, non-polluting fuel for heating, cooking, industrial use, and generation of electrical power. But states in New England, New York, and some nations seek to curtail the use of natural gas.

Sometimes a bad idea is a bad idea, no matter how you package it. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is trying again, after his $600 million opioid tax was slapped down in December by an Obama appointed federal judge.

Donny Kendal and John Nothdurft are back in episode #165 of the In The Tank Podcast. This weekly podcast features (as always) interviews, debates, and roundtable discussions that explore the work of think tanks across the country. The show is available for download as part of the Heartland Daily Podcast every Friday. 

Old arguments and justifications have worn thin — and fans are no longer fooled.

The Supreme Court’s Janus ruling is bringing out the worst from the defeated Left.

House Majority Whip Steve Scalise, R-La., and Rep. David McKinley, R-W.Va., recently introduced a resolution that explains why a carbon tax would harm the economy and why it should not be enacted

On January 10, the city of New York filed suit against BP, Chevron, Conoco-Phillips, ExxonMobil and Royal Dutch Shell.

States should avoid imposing dubious “social cost of carbon” rules.

In an open letter to the international community, titled “We Are Still In,” more than 1,200 officials have come out in support of voluntarily continuing the terms of the Paris climate accord.