Everyone’s a pundit in the digital age, thanks to the interactive comment sections that have become a standard online feature at the end of reporter pieces on most news websites.…
There are approximately 27,000 personal care attendants (PCAs) in Minnesota. In almost all cases, PCAs are family members who are taking care of a disabled relative, usually a child or…
On Tuesday, hundreds of teachers attending the American Federation of Teachers convention in Minneapolis joined a Black Lives Matter march through the city’s downtown. They said they were protesting the…
A lot of ink has been spilled on the subject of race, crime and policing over the last few months, but rarely to so little purpose as in this article…
I met Kris Greene several years ago. We were in federal court, listening to arguments in a case she and other parents brought in an attempt to stop Governor Dayton…
The Service Employees International Union that won the biggest public employee labor election in Minnesota history in 2014 now faces a statewide decertification campaign aimed at eliminating collective bargaining for…
Please join us for the Center’s first American Experiment Night at the Movies. On July 27 at 7:00 p.m., at Hopkins Cinema 6, 1118 Main Street in Hopkins, Minnesota, American…
The new Vikings stadium construction may be over now, but apparently there’s still a lot of work to do. Yet it’s no easy job explaining why it takes two well-connected…
You have to wonder what Brexit will be blamed for next. Even The Wall Street Journal on Monday reported on the front page, “Pensions Pressed Further by Brexit.” The front-page…
Why is our secretary of state hiding the 2020 voter lists?
Are Education Minnesota’s union rules protecting incompetent classroom teachers a key factor in the state’s appalling achievement gap for poor and minority students? That’s the gist of a lawsuit being…
There they go again. CNBC just ranked Minnesota as the nation’s fourth best state for business in the financial network’s 2016 annual rankings. In a state where being above average…
This morning at rush hour, around 7:50, several dozen protesters climbed onto Highway 35W South at around University Avenue and shut the highway down for around an hour and a…
Minnesotans continue to pay through the nose for one of the nation’s most expensive renewable energy programs. Electric prices rose by 12.5 percent here from 2007 to 2014, versus a…
Tonight the Minnesota Lynx played a home game. They took the opportunity to express solidarity with Black Lives Matter and to dramatize allegedly wrongful deaths at the hands of policemen.…
Our leaders tell us that the planet is threatened with destruction by global warming, caused by human emissions of CO2. This is, they insist, an unprecedented crisis. President Obama has…
In Minnesota, there has been an outpouring of anger at Governor Mark Dayton, who within hours after the fatal shooting of Philando Castile by a St. Anthony police officer, alleged…
Governor Mark Dayton taught a master class yesterday in how not to respond to a tragedy. It started with the fatal shooting of Philando Castile by a St. Anthony police…
The facts still need to be established in the tragic shooting death of Philando Castile Wednesday night by a St. Anthony police officer in Falcon Heights. Reports say Castile, a…
You have to work at it to be cited for contempt of court in Minnesota. It’s a rare sanction for individuals and essentially, unheard of for government agencies—until now. A…
How many court orders does it take to compel state education officials to follow the law? A courtroom showdown over the serial intransigence of the Minnesota Board of Teaching has…
This is one of the silliest articles I have read in a long time. Who published it? The uber-left New York Times, naturally. The Times is promoting a theory by…
The July 4th holiday means family for many Minnesotans–reunions, backyard cookouts and fireworks. American Experiment’s Mitch Pearlstein recently collected insights and ideas from 36 thinkers from across the country on…
The Bureau of Criminal Apprehension has released its report on crime in Minnesota in 2015. The BCA’s findings are grim: Violent crime saw a nearly 8 percent jump in 2015…