There are few topics in 2025 that have drawn as much attention in the U.S. as immigration enforcement. In Minnesota the topic rose to the top of mind for many…
Last week, I wrote about the U.S. Department of Education’s newest student protection initiative — a low earnings indicator that alerts prospective students when a school chosen on their FAFSA…
In its manifesto for the 2024 general election, Britain’s Labour party listed “Five Missions to Rebuild Britain,” the first being: “Kickstart economic growth.” The party’s second budget since winning that election,…
Twelve and a half million dollars of Minnesota-based federal student aid fraud led U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon to call for Gov. Walz’s resignation via a letter posted Monday…
In December 2022, I sounded an alarm over the threat the open border policies of the Biden Administration posed to our national security. In the piece Border (In)security — one…
A little over a year ago, Brian Thompson of Maple Grove, Minnesota, was murdered in a cold-blooded, cowardly attack, shot in the back while unarmed. If you have seen anything…
This week, the House Committee on Natural Resources announced that it would take a closer look at the role that three national environmental groups played in opposing Minnesota mining projects.…
Back in March, Minnesota Management & Budget (MMB) released its February Budget and Economic Forecast. As we reported at the time: The forecast budget surplus for the 2026-2027 biennium is…
The Department of Transportation announced yesterday that it would be resetting Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards. The Biden administration’s previous standards implemented a de-facto mandate for electric vehicles. The…
During the federal government shutdown, Gov. Walz tweeted that “Every $1 invested in SNAP generates $1.80 in economic activity.” This sounds too good to be true. With SNAP costing an…
Casual Minnesota consumers of the news or social media are being, not so subtly, influenced to believe that enforcement efforts by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) are creating “chaos” and…
Civics 101 The government of the United States consists of three separate but co-equal branches: the legislative, the executive, and the judicial. Article I of the Constitution sets out the…
There’s a new, disturbing epidemic sweeping through Minnesota. It has shown up on the government radar, infecting state agency social benefit programs and siphoning taxpayer money by the millions: fraud.…
The healthcare “cuts” Democrats are using as an excuse to shut down the government are actually the phase-out of temporary pandemic-era Obamacare credits. Contrary to their current talking points, the…
The Minnesota Star Tribune noticed something today: More Minnesota counties are partnering with ICE Of course, in the Star Tribune‘s telling, the cooperation is motivated purely by greed for federal…
In August 2020, Rep. Ilhan Omar (DFL) introduced the Make Billionaires Pay Act to Congress, which would have imposed a 60% tax on the gains in wealth billionaires made between…
Recent data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) shows that 12 million Obamacare enrollees in the individual market never went to the doctor, took a pill or…
The White House announced a “crime emergency” today in Washington, D.C. and laid out a plan “to protect public servants, citizens, and tourists, and ensure the safe functioning of the Federal…
Nationally renowned conservative commentator and writer Scott Jennings tells American Experiment’s John Hinderaker what it’s like to be the conservative black sheep at CNN, what the future holds for news…
Land acknowledgments are based in woke ideology, not the truth. If you’ve attended a cultural event or government meeting in the Twin Cities in the last few years, you’ve likely…
The EPA announced today that it would rescind a 2009 rule that the EPA uses to justify regulating greenhouse gas emissions. If finalized, all greenhouse gas emissions regulations for motor…
In our visit to the Federal Courthouse in downtown Minneapolis today, we encountered the rare illegal alien from outside of Latin America. Asongafack Derick Mewoabi, age 34, hails from Cameroon,…
Derailed The fever for spending vast sums of taxpayer’s money on rail projects of dubious value which has afflicted policy makers in Minnesota in recent years seems to be breaking.…
Prioritizing reliability and affordability over arbitrary climate mandates. In March 2025, U.S. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright addressed CERAWeek, an annual energy conference: Wind and solar, the darlings of the…