There is a reason most people fail at keeping their New Year’s resolutions—breaking habits or creating new ones takes time and consistency. But when it comes to our public education…
American Experiment’s John Hinderaker interviews attorney and policy analyst Andrew McCarthy about the slippery slope of presidential investigations.
Tomorrow the Minnesota Vikings take on the heavily favored San Francisco 49ers in an NFC playoff game. In anticipation of the clash, Center of the American Experiment has challenged the…
Somewhere along the line providing bicycles to the public evidently became an essential city service. What better vehicle for politicians to display their allegiance to carbon neutrality and healthy urban…
You can talk to people about the weather-driven variation in electricity output from wind and solar power until you’re blue in the face, but it will never be as effective…
Even in French, taxes are incentives and if you change the incentives you change behavior.
This column, by American Experiment Chairman Ron Eibensteiner, appears in the new Winter 2020 Issue of Thinking Minnesota. Progressives these days like to disparage American business owners—the job-creating heroes who…
I respect that the conversation on how to solve the gap is at least started by this proposal, but I don't believe it will result in the lasting change our…
A new study on the effects of the minimum wage can be read one of two ways thanks to a questionable methodology.
In a recent AgriNews editorial entitled “Significant Environmental Impacts Must Be Identified,” Vance and Bonnie Haugen claimed my article detailing how regulating greenhouse gas emissions from a dairy farm in…
Contrary to expected lower foreign prices, recent US tariffs have been passed on to importers and consumers almost entirely.
John Hinderaker, President at Center of the American Experiment, released the following statement in response to House Majority Leader Ryan Winkler’s threat via Twitter to withhold state aid from Beltrami County: “This threat to…
When policymakers impose regulations in the name of something like fighting climate change, they are sacrificing affordable housing in pursuit of that goal. Too often, rather than admitting this, they…
A solar thermal plant in Nevada is the latest in the long list of Obama administration energy failures. The Crescent Dunes solar facility remains on the hook to repay $737…
To help teachers when potentially violent situations arise, new legislation (LB 147) in Nebraska would allow educators to “use a reasonable amount of force to physically restrain students” if they…
Robert Pianta, the dean of the University of Virginia’s Curry School of Education, opined in The Washington Post that education spending has decreased since the 1980s. This claim is inaccurate—spending…
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…