When California passed a law to require space for some farm animals in 2018, the effort was lauded as necessary. At the beginning of next year, California will enforce a…
Center of the American Experiment had to react quickly to the Walz administration’s release of the second draft of social studies standards on Friday, July 30, 2021. Despite missing their…
Increasing crime rates and a growing sense of lawlessness are the biggest challenges facing our state, but Gov. Tim Walz is doing everything in his power to ignore, deflect and…
Local government officials meeting by Zoom, under a tight deadline with a mandate to dole out billions of dollars as quickly as possible. What could go wrong? As cities were…
After months of delay, the second draft of Minnesota’s K-12 Social Studies standards was published on July 30. Aside from the concerning themes dominating the standards and benchmarks, which represent…
Since assuming the office of the Presidency, Joe Biden has taken several actions to obstruct oil production in the United States, including a suspension of new oil and gas leases…
Last month, CNBC sent out this tweet: It isn’t often that I’m stunned into silence, but this did it. One of the basic confusions that people can fall into when…
The coronavirus pandemic has dealt a heavy blow to public transportation. The Metro Transit, for example, recorded a 55 percent ridership decline between 2019 and 2020. According to the Metropolitan…
There goes another one. The organizers of the Minneapolis Greek Festival scheduled for September 9-11 in Uptown Minneapolis have cancelled the popular celebration due to the continuing violent crime and…
Yesterday I wrote about the the surge of the ‘Delta variant’ of COVID-19 in Minnesota. What might our state be facing in this situation? The recent experience of the United…
Today is the day! Nationally renowned energy journalist appears in Minnesota to discuss the findings of his new report Not in Our Backyard, published by Center of the American Experiment.…
Lack of access to affordable housing is a big issue in Minnesota, especially in the Twin Cities. While most of the effort geared towards alleviating this issue has centered around…
Minnesotans oppose the Walz administration’s attempt to impose more red tape on businesses, according to the administration’s own survey. The new regulations would force project proposers to spend $13,000 to…
‘As delta variant causes surge in cases, officials closely watching new mutation.’ So KSTP reported at the weekend. ‘Minnesota Officials Urge Shots as Delta Variant Surges,’ U.S. News reported. “‘I’m…
Earlier today, the Senate passed a $1.2 trillion spending bill to fund infrastructure projects for the next five years. Of the $1.2 trillion, $550 billion adds to previously projected federal…
A recent national poll by Rasmussen Reports shows that American voters oppose Critical Race Theory by large margins. According to the survey, 73 percent of American adults are following the…
On Thursday, August 12, 2021, Center of the American Experiment will be hosting two events with nationally renowned energy journalist Robert Bryce, and American Experiment policy fellow Isaac Orr. The…
A tale of two Starbucks Downtown Minneapolis has been a strange place to go for more than a year now. First, COVID-19 hit in March last year. Businesses were closed…
Last Friday, the Minneapolis city council voted on two rent control proposals. The first proposal gives the city council legal authority to enact a rent control policy. Minneapolis residents will…
After American Experiment launched its campaign to improve the second draft of Minnesota’s K-12 Social Studies Standards, a Minnesota school superintendent posed a good question: Which parts are CRT specifically?…
As violent crime has soared in Minneapolis in 2020 and still further in 2021, a point we have made persistently is that the victims are disproportionately from the city’s black…
The Minnesota Public Utilities Commission (PUC) is mad about the massive upcharge in natural gas bills resulting from supply shortages in February’s polar vortex, which will cost the average Minnesota…
Misattributing fires to climate change is a sign of apocalyptic environmentalism The following article was written by Michael Shellenberger on Substack: After a dramatic video of a fire on the…
Minnesota’s Walter Mondale famously failed to resurrect Hubert Humphrey’s liberal coalition, but also took the first, faltering steps toward a new progressive politics that appealed to younger, educated, middle-class voters.