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American Experiment plans an aggressive fall of new and worthwhile efforts.

Without it, aches can be even harder to bear.

Edina’s public school curriculum systematically indoctrinates students with extreme left-wing ideologies.

Pari Cariaga coordinates the Center’s events and donor relations.

Kirsten Kukowski returns to Minnesota, after a decade on the frontlines of national GOP politics.

Responsibilities include ‘bannering’ on a highway overpass.

I came across a study the other day about the effects of fatherlessness on children’s self-control, conducted 60 years ago, that I should have known about in more recent decades,…

Star Parker to headline Fall speaker series.

When President Trump says NFL teams should fire kneeling players, the teams respond by saying that they are private enterprises. But if they want to be treated like private enterprises…

With Thursday Night Football kicking off shortly, the prospect of NFL players refusing to stand for the National Anthem is again in the news. When the issue is debated, it…

To my knowledge, this story has gotten no local attention. But it ought to be of concern to all Minnesotans, especially given that it involves the flagship Minneapolis campus of…

Desperate times call for desperate measures. But are the Vikings desperate enough just two games into the season to sign controversial quarterback Colin Kaepernick? Sports writer Jim Souhan went long…

Center of the American Experiment may or may not have had anything to do with it, but I choose to view a story in the Star Tribune on Sunday (September…

After 25 years in the same house, my wife and I are relocating a dozen miles to the suburban west.  And yes, as you might imagine, after a quarter-century of…

A “politically incorrect” sign posted by an owner of a Dairy Queen franchise in Kewaskum, Wisconsin has generated a blizzard of attention on social media after an out-of-town customer complained…

The Guthrie Theater debuted a new production of Romeo and Juliet over the weekend. It premiered on Saturday night, and I saw it on Sunday. The play’s greatness is, I…

A prominent DFL donor and key witness in an unfolding Indonesian corruption scandal committed suicide last month after a nine-hour standoff with a SWAT team in Los Angeles. Johannes Marliem,…

One might think that Minnesota would be one of the last places to pull down statues. The state joined the union just in time for the Civil War, in which…

Remember how, in the sit-com “Cheers,” every time Norm rumbled through the door of the Boston bar where everyone knew your name, everyone in fact would shout out “Norm”?  Well,…

Barnes & Noble book stores have picked up the Center’s magazine, Thinking Minnesota, and are stocking it in their magazine sections. This photo was taken at the Ridgedale store: If…

“Transgenderism” is the hot craze on the Left. A group that didn’t exist (or wasn’t known to exist) not many years ago is now presented as the key locus of…

Minneapolis faces a crisis that’s only going to get worse under current leadership.  That meme comes up a lot lately in regards to the city’s police. Yet a key civic…

The enemy of progress

What if Rudy Perpich were still fighting for school choice?