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Private property rights are one of the fundamental tenets of our Republic.

John Nothdurft and Donny Kendal present episode #126 of the In The Tank Podcast. Today’s podcast features work from the Washington Policy Center, the Foundation for Government Accountability, and the Pacific Research Institute.

Peter Ferrara speaks on SiriusXM of his past and current efforts to reform Social Security.

John Nothdurft and Donny Kendal present episode #94 of the In The Tank Podcast. Today’s podcast features work from the Yankee Institute for Public Policy, the Illinois Policy Institute, and the Buckeye Institute.

A recent U.S. Chamber of Commerce study shows the Obama administration is ignoring the law by imposing an increasing number of unfunded mandates on the states without first assessing their economic impact or carrying out a required cost benefit analysis.

On this edition of the Heartland Institute’s education podcast, your host, education research fellow and managing editor of School Reform News, Teresa Mull, spoke to Heartland’s own Lennie Jarratt, project manager for education transformation.

In today’s edition of The Heartland Daily Podcast, Dr. Barry Poulson, Professor of Economics at the University of Colorado and advisor to the Task Force on Tax and Fiscal Policy at the American Legislative Exchange Council, joins the show to talk about America’s debt crisis.

John and Donny continue their exploration of think tanks in episode #45 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. Today’s podcast features work from the Texas Public Policy Foundation, the Cato Institute, and WalletHub.

Lately, education scholars at Washington, D.C.-based, nominally conservative think tanks have spun themselves into a tizzy about the education reform movement’s splintering into quarreling factions.

Mr. Trump has been castigated for saying that if the government goes bankrupt, he’d get creditors to accept less. That is standard operating procedure for businesses. Creditors make deals because something is better than nothing, and if a company is utterly destroyed, nothing is what they will get. They may complain, but unless they were actually defrauded, they voluntarily assumed a risk of loss, hoping to make a profit.

In this episode of the weekly Budget & Tax News podcast, managing editor and research fellow Jesse Hathaway talks with Buckeye Institute for Public Policy Solutions criminal justice fellow Daniel Dye about criminal justice reform, debunking some of the myths around this new idea.

In an April 5 editorial titled “Bill would ruin certificate of need program,” the News Sentinel argued legislation Tennessee lawmakers are considering could make it harder for the poor and Tennesseans living in rural communities to obtain access to high-quality, affordable health care.

Despite its reputation for freedom, the U.S. has the world’s highest prison population rate, 716 inmates per 100,000 people. More than half the countries of the world have rates less than one-fifth of that. The United States’ rate is six times that of Canada and six to nine times greater than the rates of Western European nations, with whom we have the most cultural and historical ties. Why is criminality so much higher here than in those countries? The U.S. has less than 5 percent of the world’s population but 22 percent of its prison population.