If all you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail, as the old saying goes. As I wrote yesterday: The DFL has been casting around for an…
An incident yesterday morning in downtown Minneapolis illustrates the destructive results of allowing years of anti-police rhetoric to become normalized in much of the metro area. Hennepin County Sheriff’s deputies…
Mohamed Ahmed Ibrahim, now aged 20, made his first appearance yesterday in federal court, charged with being a felon in possession of a firearm. For now, Ibrahim is being held…
President Trump announced today that Homeland Security Secretary Krist Noem would be stepping down from her post at the end of March. Senator Markwayne Mullin (R – Oklahoma) was named…
Yesterday, the Democratic-Farmer-Labor (DFL) introduced HF3415 in the Children and Families Finance and Policy Committee. The bill as originally introduced would have inappropriately restricted Department of Homeland Security (DHS) agents…
Calling all young people who want to make Minnesota a better place to live and work! Applications for the Summer 2026 Internship program are now open. The Summer 2026 Internship Session…
Center of the American Experiment launched a grassroots advertising campaign today urging the legislature to repeal Minnesota’s Renewable Energy Standard (RES) and end the moratorium on expanding nuclear energy in…
It was a big deal when it happened last July, the second 900-pound meth bust of the summer of 2025. It made national news. The U.S. Attorney for Minnesota issued…
Over the past couple of months, I’ve been using poll data to find out what Minnesotans want the federal immigration system to achieve — its ends — and how they…
Habeas corrigia. Although the filing of new habeas corpus cases has slowed to a trickle in federal court in Minnesota since Operation Metro Surge began winding down, the entire phenomenon…
There are probably fewer than 100 people in America who would understand the importance of a 47-second exchange during today’s marathon 4-hour and 20-minute U.S. House Oversight committee hearing at the Capitol.…
Monday’s Education Policy Committee hearing opened with an anecdote about a Senate intern who could not identify John Hancock’s well-known signature on the Declaration of Independence. The story came just…
Abdulkarim Shafii Farah, who participated in the unsuccessful plot to bribe a juror in the first Feeding Our Future courtroom trial, was sentenced to five years in federal prison this…
The problem Property taxes have become a hot topic in Minnesota as bills have soared in recent years. Alpha News reports: Two months ago, an Alpha News/RMG Research poll of registered voters…
Welcome back! This week on the American Experiment Podcast… Our hosts dig into why the Trump administration is halting $260 million in Medicaid payments to Minnesota. Is it really about stopping…
Wisconsin’s bold reforms under Gov. Scott Walker’s leadership that curtailed government union power reshaped the state’s education landscape, and students benefited. A cornerstone of Gov. Walker’s 2011 Budget Repair Bill…
Amidst mounting frustration with the state and national teachers’ union, a small group of teachers in Becker, Minnesota decided to try something different. They successfully petitioned the state to call…
Starting fall 2026, public schools across the state will be required to implement new K-12 academic standards and benchmarks in social studies. Since there is no external approval process on…
The last few years will go down in history as a time when fraudsters brazenly stole billions of dollars from Minnesota and federal taxpayers while state regulators looked the other…
Gov. Tim Walz delivered his final State of the State address last Tuesday evening, using the speech to tout false education “successes,” claim he lowered taxes for Minnesotans, and take…