An investigation by writer Katherine Kersten released today exposes systematic political indoctrination of students in Edina public schools, beginning as early as kindergarten, all while the district’s long time…
Edina’s public school curriculum systematically indoctrinates students with extreme left-wing ideologies.
Conventional wisdom has it that young people starting out in life need a four-year college degree to succeed. But a new Center of the American Experiment study (download here) concludes…
DFL Governor Mark Dayton’s plan, like many “blue state” governors, uses “transit oriented development” or TOD, to pull money out of the suburbs and greater Minnesota to fund and re-enforce…
Why do so many Minnesotans agree with the project's goal so eagerly?
Whenever I have an op-ed published in the Star Tribune I debate with myself whether I should read comments about the piece on the Strib’s blog afterwards. Despite knowing, without…
On July 19, a Minnesota Department of Education (MDE) council will vote on a “transgender toolkit,” which—if adopted—will be distributed to all public K-12 schools across our state. The toolkit…
This op-ed appeared July 18, 2017 in the St. Paul Pioneer Press. The number of children who report being unhappy with their biological sex has exploded in the last 10…
This appeared as the Star Tribune’s Sunday cover editorial on July 16, 2017. [Star Tribune photo by Anthony Souffle.] In this era of high technology manufacturing, four years and a…
Author Nicholas Eberstadt highlights the troubling class of men who have removed themselves from the job market
Clogged roadways are the calculated consequence of policies to drive people to mass transit.
The Center’s Great Jobs project aims, above all, to get the message to young people and parents that many terrific careers don’t require a costly four-year college degree. In recent…
Center of the American Experiment’s major, multi-year initiative called “Great Jobs Without a Four-Year Degree” aims to show students and parents there are educational routes to well-paying jobs and fulfilling…
Did you know it is International Women’s Day? I confess, I did not get the memo. I apologize to women everywhere. I should have worn RED and taken the day…
Acclaimed author to kick off the Center’s Alternative Education Project
Black Lives Matter no longer makes the headlines as often these days, crowded off the front page in part by the media’s wall-to-wall coverage of protests of the new administration.…
Interview: Scholar Heather Mac Donald on how Black Lives Matters activists have weakened policing in high-crime neighborhoods.
Editor’s Note: One of the most important themes in last month’s elections had to do with the many millions of Americans who believe they are stuck in place occupationally and…
Frustrated Dakota County Commissioner fights the unfitted power of the Met Council.
Minneapolis had a lurking law that helped head off trouble. Then political correctness struck. In the wake of more downtown shootings, it’s great that Minneapolis leaders are making new plans…
After early Monday morning shootings in downtown Minneapolis left six wounded within a half a block of the downtown police station, Minneapolis leaders promptly announced another new anti-crime program. Star…
[Related News: Minneapolis Ranked 25th Most Dangerous City] Some unjustified police shootings, a dangerous narrative fomented by the Black Lives Matter movement, and a complicit media who slot everything into…
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…
Local citizens object to the increasingly unchecked and unaccountable power of the Metropolitan Council.