The Vikings take on the Browns in London this Sunday. In 2022, they could be traveling to London for a regular season game or hosting a London franchise at the…
Art and history lovers should be very excited for the new portraits of former President Barack and First Lady Michelle Obama. The Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery has bestowed these important…
Fiscal policymakers have accepted for centuries that taxes act as a negative incentive on whatever is being taxed. That doesn’t always keep them from taxing.
New research shows that it isn't intra-state competition that has been driving capital taxes down, but changes in tax rates and input costs abroad, U.S. macroeconomic conditions, the capital income share,…
The much vaunted 'labor shortage' need not be a problem if we have sufficient investment and innovation to make the workers who remain more productive
If you tax something you get less of it. Policymakers from Peter the Great to Mark Dayton have not only acknowledged this being true, but have banked on it
John Phelan is appointed the Center’s first staff economist
There is an economic value in colleague being in close proximity. Telecommuting will only have a marginal effect on easing the Twin Cities' congestion problems
A response to our report in City Pages is completely detached from the reality of life for most Minnesotans
Mass transit might be appropriate for a densely packed city like London. But the Twin Cities are different and their problems demand different solutions
The Star Tribune editorial board wrote on Tuesday: “Trump administration continues to threaten a free press.” Did I miss the news about President Trump vowing to shut down CNN or…
As part of the renovation of Nicollet Mall in downtown Minneapolis, lanterns with text circling them are to be erected at the corner of 7th and Nicollet. They are designed…
Conservative author and academic Steve Hayward discusses three upcoming papers for Center of the American Experiment.
In 1989, a group of military officers, led by historian William Lind, developed a theory called “Generational Warfare.” Published in the Marine Corps Gazette, this article hypothesized that the history…