In a July 10 Minnesota Star Tribune opinion piece, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN5) scolded fellow members of her state delegation who voted in favor of the One Big Beautiful Bill…
Why do Minnesota public school districts with declining enrollment see an increase in per-pupil revenue? Because under public school finance systems, “districts that lose students do not lose a proportional…
You read that correctly, we are now scheduling Feeding Our Future trials with mid-2026 start dates. The trial of the seven members of the Ikram Mohamed group of defendants (Nos.…
News broke earlier this week of Minneapolis “Highs” gang member Marquan Deshaun Tucker, 20, being charged for murdering a rival gang member in north Minneapolis in 2023. The real news…
A key figure in the free-food scandal will be up for sentencing next week, Thursday, July 17. Abdiaziz Shafii Farah was convicted on 23 counts (acquitted on 1) in the…
Rep. Kristin Robbins, Chair of the Minnesota House Fraud Prevention and State Agency Oversight Committee held, a hearing on Tuesday, July 8, to hear from the Department of Human Services…
Abymahel Torres-Arriaga, age 36, appears to be on his way back to his native Veracruz, Mexico, after pleading guilty this afternoon in federal court in downtown Minneapolis. Your correspondent was…
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act passed into law on July 4, 2025. With it came sharp rollbacks of some Inflation Reduction Act tax credits but not others. There have…
Welcome back to the American Experiment Podcast! In our 83rd episode, Kathryn and Grace are joined by American Experiment President John Hinderaker. The three address rumors that Governor Tim Walz…
To be clear: neither the Anika Foundation itself nor anyone associated with it have been accused of any wrongdoing. The occasion was the guilty plea hearing this morning for Ronnie…
For months anti-ICE rhetoric has been spewed by prominent politicians on the left. The rhetoric is now turning into violence against our federal agents and responding officers.
How not to kill off a media story. The saga of former state bureaucrat, Wilson Tindi, has been extended for another week, with a fresh round of media reports. From…
While the rest of America celebrated Independence Day, the national teachers’ union conducted a day of business during its annual four-day Representative Assembly. This year, the meeting was held in…
A beautiful mid-summer day in Minnesota. But where is the wind? 3:00 p.m., 84 degrees, low humidity and no wind in my neck of the woods, so I thought it…
Former Education Minnesota President Denise Specht indirectly threw shade at American Experiment recently, writing in her last column for the union’s magazine Minnesota Educator that the union will continue “battling”…
A tale of two headlines. From Politico: Democrats retreat on climate: ‘It’s one of the more disappointing turnabouts’A changing political climate has California Democrats recalibrating on climate policies. From the…
There’s a pretty good federal parental choice provision in the Big Beautiful Bill that provides a tax credit for donations to scholarship-granting organizations. The tax credit, capped at $1,700, is…
In 1964, Lyndon Johnson was elected president with 61.1% of the popular vote, the highest share for any candidate since 1824. With this mandate, he enacted his Great Society program,…
Economic growth Kanabec County Times: Healthcare sector experiencing significant growth The Ely Echo: Ely Echo Editorial: Keep an eye on the numbers, Ely’s tourism economy far from booming Star Tribune:…
Today’s celebration of our national birthday will likely include many things — picnics, parades, and fireworks, to name a few. But not everyone may know what Independence Day actually commemorates.…
The biggest Feeding Our Future-related events scheduled for July will occur on the 17th. We will see two defendants sentenced from the first trial that finished June 2024. Abdiaziz Farah,…
Vance Boelter appeared in federal court in St. Paul this afternoon for a hearing to evaluate whether there was probable cause to proceed with his federal case, and evaluate whether…
The U.S. Supreme Court decision in Mahmoud v. Taylor last week found that a Maryland public school district violated the First Amendment’s Free Exercise Clause by refusing to let parents…
As the Wilson Tindi scandal unfolds, it seems that this convicted-felon, senior bureaucrat may not have undergone any background checks. Tindi is that convicted felon, registered sex offender, illegal alien…