Justin Haskins

Arizona leaders have been wringing hands and gnashing teeth for a month over the new Colorado River management plan, threatening to go to court. But Nevada has beaten them to it, becoming the first to sue the Interior Department's Bureau of Reclamation (BOR), attempting to block the plan for reducing water supplies from the drought-stricken river, and insisting on continued deliveries of water that simply isn't there. The suit says the new management plan could “devastate the state's economy,” exactly what Arizona has said. But of course, what is devastating to water-starved southwestern states is a drought and reduced river flows, not a government management document.

Colorado has often been called the “rooftop state” because the water that falls on Colorado flows to other states, with virtually none flowing in. Geologists call it a “headwaters state” because so much of the nation's water supply originates in Colorado. Both distinctions have nuances, though.

On September 8, The New York Times published a story titled “30 Ideas for Fixing U.S. Schools, Ranked by Experts.” The subhead read, “Math and reading scores are in a decade-long slump. We asked three dozen experts: What could turn things around?”

The Supreme Court should take its constitutional responsibility seriously by banning Boulder’s climate lawsuit in a way that applies to other cities’ lawsuits.

Check out highlights from Heartland's invitations to be on TV, radio, and podcasts for the month of October 2026.

Effective Jan. 1, the Federal Scholarship Tax Credit Program (FSTC)—part of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, signed into law by President Donald Trump in July 2025—will become the largest school-choice program in the U.S.

Doomerism is dangerous for society because it promotes a sense of desperation in which all measures to stop the supposed existential crisis must be used to save humanity.

Wealth taxes have a long record of failure. If California wants a stronger economy, more help for low-income residents and better-funded programs, it should do the opposite of Prop 40.

Larry Page, Sergey Brin and others have left California, taking $540 billion with them. Prop 40 would push more out – and everyone else would pay.

The most important choice California voters make this November won't be who represents them in Congress, Sacramento or city hall.