Heartland Daily Podcast

Apr 11 2025 433 ep. 58 mins 428
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The “fire hose” of all podcasts produced by The Heartland Institute, a national free-market think tank.

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US Exiting the Climate Alarm Cabal — The Climate Realism Show #153

Apr 11 2025 78 mins  
In news that has climate alarmists in an even greater panic, the Trump administration is ending funding for the U.S. Global Change Research Program, the panel that produced the federal government’s National Climate Assessment every four years. Several officials in the office have reportedly been fired, and Trump’s NASA has canceled the contract with the firm that coordinates th

Checking in on Net Zero in the UK — The Climate Realism Show #152

Apr 04 2025 86 mins  
The Net Zero project in Great Britain, so the country does it’s part to stop climate change, has a true believer behind it in leftist Prime Minister Keir Starmer. But recent opinion polls show the public is starting to turn dramatically against it, especially when the economic costs become increasingly real. A London Times poll in November found that 92% of the British public vie

Trump Declares Liberation from Unbalanced Trade: In the Tank #490

Apr 03 2025 80 mins  
Tariffs are the subject of heated debate not just between Democrats and Republicans, but within the spectrum of right wing economic thought as well. Trump has announced reciprocal tariffs for every country on the planet, in an attempt to end unfair trade imbalances across the board. Some countries have already started falling in line, the question is, what will the end result for A

The Sun and Climate Change (Guest: Dr. Willie Soon) — The Climate Realism Show #151

Apr 01 2025 83 mins  
The scientific community and the media are focused almost exclusively by how greenhouse gas emissions affect the climate — from power plants to automobiles to your fireplace to your gas stove, and even cow farts. But what about that big ball of gas in the sky? Why does it get short shrift when it comes to the causes of climate change?The Heartland Institute’s Anthony Watts, Lin

The Consent Trap: Agreeing to Medical Bills Without Knowing Prices

Mar 31 2025 53 mins  
How can you consent to paying for something if you don’t know the price? In today’s podcast, AnneMarie Schieber of Health Care News and Devon Herrick of the Goodman Institute Health Care Blog talk about New York State’s decision to ban “consent to pay” forms at medical practices. Also on tap: reforming health care without a political fight, the RESULT Act being reintroduc

The Rise of the New Right - In The Tank #489

Mar 28 2025 105 mins  
The 2024 election will go down in history as a radical and lasting political realignment in America on the right. The Republican Party of the 80s and 90s is gone, and with it the influence of past presidents and the thought leaders of the right. In their place is a new populism led by former Democrats who were driven out by radical leftists. But is this unusual coalition of former

Ill Literacy, Episode 179: Out of the Darkness (Guest: Frank Trentmann)

Mar 26 2025 76 mins  
Heartland’s Tim Benson is joined by Frank Trentmann, professor of history at Birkbeck, University of London, to discuss his latest book, Out of the Darkness: The Germans, 1942–2022. They chat about how a nation whose past has been marked by mass murder, a people who cheered Adolf Hitler, reinvented themselves, and by how much. Get the book here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.c

Medicaid Reform, FDA Firestorms, and Beating Bad Medical Bills

Mar 26 2025 49 mins  
Can you beat a medical bill you feel is unfair? AnneMarie Schieber and Devon Herrick discuss their personal experience. Can Congress rein in Medicaid? Many ideas being consider: block grants to states, changing funding rates for expanded Medicaid, work requirements. Do enrollees value Medicaid or waste it? Schieber and Herrick also discuss “gutting the FDA.” Herrick discusses w

CDC Shake-Up, Big Pharma Influence, and the Vaccine Policy Wars

Mar 26 2025 44 mins  
Hours before his confirmation hearing, former Rep. Dave Weldon’s nomination to head the CDC was withdrawn. Weldon has been a vaccine critic. How much of a role did Big Pharma play? AnneMarie Schieber and Devon Herrick also talk about the growing focus on vaccines, and the history of vaccine policy. Most recently the Trump’s administration to nix vaccines on chickens for bird fl

The High Cost of Climate Scams in Biden's Inflation Reduction Act

Mar 25 2025 24 mins  
The other day, Donald Kendall, director of the Glenn C. Haskins Emerging Issues Center at the Heartland Institute, was a guest on the Shawn Thompson Show on AM 560 The Answer in Chicago.Donald is a regular guest on Sean's show and was invited on this time to talk about a new heartlands to paper titled The High Cost of Green Scams, assessing the Green Giveaways in the Inflation Redu