Walter Starck is one of the pioneers in the scientific investigation of coral reefs. He grew up in the Florida Keys and received a PhD in marine science from the University of Miami in 1964. He has ...

Dr. Arthur B. Robinson served on the Board of Directors of The Heartland Institute from 2016 to 2019. He is also a senior fellow for environment policy at Heartland and the namesake of Heartland’s ...

Merrill Matthews, Ph.D., is a resident scholar with the Institute for Policy Innovation, a research-based, public policy think tank. He is a health policy expert and the past president of the Health ...

John C. Goodman is Senior Fellow at the Independent Institute, president of the Goodman Institute for Public Policy Research, and author of the widely acclaimed, new Independent book, A Better Choice: ...

Don Watkins is one of today’s most vocal opponents of the welfare state and coauthor, with Yaron Brook, of the national best-seller Free Market Revolution: How Ayn Rand’s Ideas Can End Big Government.

Sen. Rand Paul (R) of Kentucky introduced legislation titled “A bill to amend the Public Health Service Act to end the ...

Daniel R. Simmons is an expert in climate change and environmental policy at the state level. He is director of state affairs at the Institute for Energy Research (IER). In that role, he monitors ...

Sallie Baliunas, Ph.D. is astrophysicist and senior scientist at the George C. Marshall Institute, an astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in the Solar, Stellar, and ...

Mike Thompson was born in Wichita, Kansas, and grew up in Burlington, Kansas. He graduated from Burlington High School in 1975. He is the president of Mike Thompson LLC. He retired as Chief ...

Ivar Giaever was a Norwegian-American physicist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1973 with Leo Esaki and Brian Josephson for discoveries regarding tunnelling phenomena in solids. Giaever was ...

Kathleen Hunker is a Policy Analyst and Managing Editor at the Texas Public Policy Foundation and Editor-in-Chief of The Bell Towers, a blog for advancing the rights of life, liberty and conscience.

Robert A. Baade, Ph.D., is the A.B. Dick Professor of Economics and Business at Lake Forest College in Lake Forest, Illinois. Baade focuses on international trade and financial issues, and a variety ...