A sprawling lawsuit with over 2,000 plaintiffs, including 1,200 school districts, alleges that Big Tech (TikTok, Meta’s Facebook and Instagram, Snapchat, and Google’s YouTube) deliberately exploits children’s attention for profit.…
Have you watched this video yet? Three million others have (and counting). American Experiment released the video last month to promote our recent report titled Shattered Green Dreams: The Environmental…
Commentator Blois Olson noted the following in his political newsletter, Morning Take, this election-eve morning, In ads CAIR Action Midwest calls out its endorsements for Minneapolis races to “Invest in…
Minneapolis Sometime between 2017 and 2020, I was walking north up Hennepin Avenue at about 5:00 PM. I had just navigated the cluster of citizens who spread out across the…
Housing and zoning “Overly restrictive local zoning is the fundamental cause of America’s housing shortage,” according to the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. “Cities and counties have employed their…
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…
UMLC adds two ‘W’s to the conservative win column. The country is experiencing a radical season of conservative wins, and it seems Minnesota got in on the action, too. This…
Big River Pizza, a long time wood fired pizza restaurant located in downtown St. Paul’s Lowertown made the announcement that it would be closing its business at the end of…
On Wednesday, I offered a cautious welcome for the House tax bill. Faced with ballooning state government budget deficits as a result of an explosion in spending since 2023, the…
The DFL deficit In February 2023, Minnesota Management & Budget (MMB) forecast a state government budget surplus of $17 billion for the 2024-2025 biennium. In that “historic” session, the DFL trifecta blew…
Here we go again! Another venue reneged on their agreement to host an event for Center of the American Experiment at the last minute after being bullied by local activists.…
Around the nation, Democrats are organizing “town hall” meetings in the districts of Republican Congressmen, in the hopes of regaining control of the chamber in the 2026 election. Nothing wrong…
It was a far cry from the sweeping raids targeting illegal immigrants in some cities, but Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents were spotted in action Wednesday in Rochester, Minnesota’s…
For months now, we’ve been beating the drum, warning of the potential negative impacts in Minnesota of the current boom in data centers, large computer server farms supporting AI and…
In 2024, people visited AmericanExperiment.org an incredible 3.2 million times — a new record! But what exactly were they reading? These are American Experiment’s Top 10 Most Read Stories of…
The 94th Minnesota Legislature will convene on Tuesday, January 14, 2025. And when that happens, it appears that Republicans will hold a slight, if temporary, advantage in both houses. Two…
Two videos, both produced in 2021, show the Minneapolis mayoral candidate speaking about his advocacy work on behalf of private companies providing social services funded by state government (taxpayers). Here…
It happened again recently in Roseville. Thieves made off with copper wiring worth tens of thousands of dollars from 27 light poles in a popular park. The Roseville Police Department…
Earlier this week, Meta (parent company of Facebook) sent out a request for proposals for nuclear-generated electricity beginning next decade. Reuters reports: Meta said on Tuesday it is seeking proposals from…
Data center construction mean running natural gas plants longer for Xcel Energy, according to remarks by Ryan Long, president of Xcel Energy’s Minnesota and Dakotas division, at an MPUC conference…
Hennepin County Jail ordered to reduce inmate population to 600 Following a recent biennial inspection of the Hennepin County Jail by Department of Corrections (DOC) inspectors, the DOC has ordered…
Yes, a bee, the small-winged insect. I’ve been writing about the early stages of a nuclear power renaissance in America driven by the massive electrical demands of new computer data…
Silly season has officially begun in the 2024 school board elections with candidates, voters and interest groups going to great lengths to support their candidates, even if it means breaking…
A new, independent report says that public school teachers’ pensions are underperforming the relevant benchmarks by more than $1 billion (with a “b”), per year. That’s what generated this provocative…