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.
Economic growth Minn Post: How federal tax hikes would hurt Minnesota businesses Brainerd Dispatch: Reader Opinion: Helping our businesses Minnesota Reformer: Minnesota’s economic recovery in 8 charts Labor market KROC:…
The California car mandates enacted by Governor Tim Walz were deeply unpopular at Farmfest this last week, which is exactly what Center of the American Experiment found last summer when…
Senior Policy Fellow Peter Nelson talks about his work in the Trump administration.
Minnesotans trust the police, avoid Minneapolis, and increasingly blame Gov. Tim Walz for rising crime.
Who should be held accountable for the hiring and abrupt firing of Equity Alliance Minnesota, whose outlandish racial equity survey put the Sartell school district in the media spotlight for…
The ‘surge’ in cases of the ‘Delta Variant’ of COVID-19 is prompting a clamor for the return of so-called ‘Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions’ (NPIs) — mask mandates, shutdowns and the like —…
Education Minnesota — the state teachers’ union — has a series of resources for educators and school leadership on how to defend Critical Race Theory. The documents, first reported on…
New research led by the University of Chicago shows huge promise to defeating global hunger by using genetic modification of crops to increase food production by 50 percent and make…
Tobacco taxes hurt low-income Minnesotans, small businesses.
Rochester’s economy is heavily dependent on the healthcare sector. In 2019, Ron Wirtz wrote for the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis: It’s hard to overstate the influence of Mayo and…
The Minnesota Department of Education has released the second draft of proposed Social Studies Standards for K-12 public schools. Your valuable feedback to MDE and the Social Studies Standards Committee…
Center of the American Experiment has a booth at FarmFest this year, and we’ve got the best merchandise of any booth — corn on the cob holders! Stop by to…
Mainstreet Minnesotans fight the ‘woke’ direction of K-12 education.
It’s a textbook case on the power of transparency. When it came to light that some students in Sartell schools had apparently been instructed not to show their parents the…
When we talk about the negative effects of inflation, people often bring explan that inflation cannot hurt individuals when it is coupled with rising wages. This is true. During the…
In late June the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a proposed rule that would pare back several key policies put in place during the Trump Administration related…
Fresh off finalizing new rules that would force auto manufacturers to obey California’s car mandates, the Walz administration is once again seeking to enact new regulations without legislative oversight. This…
State officials manipulate COVID-19 data about minorities.
Childcare has been one of the most heavily affected industries by the COVID-19 pandemic. Fortunately, providers got a lifelinefrom United States Congress. In Minnesota, most of the funds from the…
Judging by the Met Council and Southwest Light Rail Transit’s regular e-updates for the public, the most expensive public works project in Minnesota history appears to be right on track.…