The newspaper’s slavery-at-the-fore reframing of American history distorts this country’s progress and the exceptional ideals that drive it. This Sunday Cover Op-Ed originally appeared in the Star Tribune on December…
It’s not that politicians on the right never run frantically away, for opportunistic political purposes, from positions they previously held, it’s just that I enjoy it more when politicians on…
Is the forecast surplus a nice little bonus for Minnesota's politicians? Or should it be left with the hardworking taxpayers who earned it?
Last Friday, Center of the American Experiment submitted comments opposing Governor Walz's attempt to force Minnesota to comply with California's Low Emission Vehicle (LEV) and Zero Emission Vehicle (ZEV) car…
How deregulation and tax cuts enable craft brewers to thrive.
A famous Minnesotan once said escalators can never break… Apparently, the state of Minnesota didn’t get the memo, because rather than letting people get a little extra exercise using their…
Brexit was voted on by U.K. citizens. We need to respect the voice of the people.
Hello! In this week’s edition of the In The Tank Podcast, Isaac is joined by Donny and Justin of the Heartland Institute to talk about Heartland’s recent poll with Rasmussen on…
Minnesota’s Supreme Court greenlights a lawsuit that would sort students by skin color.
A round-up of the last week’s economic news stories in Minnesota.
The RealClear Opinion Research survey confirmed the popularity of educational choice (68 percent) among voters in every category, from age to race to political party. Support for a federal tax…
On National Miners Day, America honors the 325,000 men and women who work in nearly 13,000 surface and underground mines across the United States. Throughout Minnesota’s history, the miners of our…
When Congress tried to 'tax the rich' and it raised no revenue.
Today Minnesota Management and Budget released their biannual Budget and Economic Forecast. The state’s economist projected a $1.332 billion state surplus, and that’s after sending $284 million to the budget…
In response to the Budget and Economic Forecast projecting a $1.332 billion surplus, Center of the American Experiment Economist John Phelan released the following statement: “We can attribute this budget surplus…
Improving Minnesota’s air quality is often used as justification for mandating wind and solar on our electric grid, and now groups like Fresh Energy want to ban the use of…
A person’s ability to enter the workforce and access a successful career path should not be determined solely by the presence or lack of a four-year degree. Degree inflation is…
Minnesota's youth employment ratio has declined more than the national rate since 2000; minimum wages have been found to disproportionately impact youth employment; and our minimum wage has been especially…
Tonight I will be in Kiester, Minnesota to talk about the high cost of wind and solar power as part of Center of the American Experiment’s continued mission to reach…
Founder and former CEO Steven Wilson of Ascend Learning, a charter school network in Brooklyn, New York, discusses the emergence of anti-intellectualism in k-12 education.
It is the easiest thing in the world to spend someone else's money. Juggling all these many pressures, as these restaurateurs and other entrepreneurs have to, is rather harder.
Center of the American Experiment released new research today that analyzes current trends in Minnesota’s labor market and predicts the future of the state’s workforce for the next two decades.…
There is no reason for CUB to be more upset about Minnesota Power’s rate increase than Xcel Energy's. I submit that the reason CUB is less forgiving of Minnesota Power's…
Last year’s Janus v. AFSCME decision by the U.S. Supreme Court freed public employees from being forced to financially support a government union, but the affected states are not fully…