As I wrote last week, public schools are depopulating on a large scale for a variety of reasons, including a declining birth rate, the fact that many of them don’t offer a worthy product, the ...

SCHAUMBURG, IL (June 18, 2026) – The Heartland Institute is warning that the future of AI-powered censorship and viewpoint discrimination may already be arriving after Anthropic’s Claude refused to ...

Sandra Stotsky is professor of education emerita at the University of Arkansas, where she held the 21 st Century Chair in Teacher Quality. She served as Senior Associate Commissioner (a professional ...

Madden’s early research led to the development of the CFROI valuation framework that is used today by money-management firms worldwide. Madden is a Policy Advisor for The Heartland Institute. Madden’s ...

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Christopher C. Horner is a former senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute. An attorney in Washington, D.C., Horner has represented CEI, scientists, and members of the U.S. House of ...

Bob Zybach joined The Heartland Institute’s board of policy advisors in 2017. He earned his Ph.D. in environmental sciences from Oregon State University. His doctoral research focused on the ...

Mulholland is a professor of economics at Western Carolina University in Cullowhee, North Carolina. Born and raised in Anderson, South Carolina, Mulholland lives in Sylva, North Carolina with his wife ...

He is also a policy advisor to The Heartland Institute. Malek teaches principles of macroeconomics, principles of microeconomics, economics of social issues, and intermediate microeconomics. He also ...

Floy Lilley is an adjunct scholar at the Mises Institute. She was formerly with the University of Texas at Austin’s Chair of Free Enterprise, and an attorney-at-law in Texas and Florida.

Jamie Gass is the Pioneer Institute’s director of the Center for School Reform. At Pioneer, he has framed and commissioned over 60 research papers on education reform topics. Jamie has more than two ...

Ken G. Glozer is founder and president of OMB Professionals, which serves a broad range of private-sector clients, including companies, trade associations, nonprofit organizations, and other ...