The trials continue in the Feeding Our Future scandal, the biggest fraud in the United States arising from COVID-19, totaling an estimated $250 million. This is only one example of…
Reflections on the revolution in Britain.
The 2023 legislative session was a study of pushing through an ideological agenda.
Beyond the big-ticket items that got most of the press attention such as abortion, transgender rights, tax rebates and gun control, the 2023 legislature made several dramatic policy changes that…
Three major utility companies in California have proposed to charge their customers based on their household income. In doing so, the Golden State appears to be racing to run out…
This week I’ve looked at how the seven states without state income taxes – Alaska, Florida, Nevada, South Dakota, Texas, Washington, and Wyoming – were responsible for a disproportionate share…
But has that made the average American any better off?
Today is Brexit Day in Britain, the day on which, more than three years after voting to leave the European Union the country actually does so. How did the UK reach…
Forty years ago this month, Margaret Thatcher became British Prime Minister.
Sen. Sanders took a laptop costing a few hundred dollars and produced Our Revolution: A Future to Believe In, for which he was paid $795,000.
Back in 1997, I was working as an intern at Center of the American Experiment. Lady Thatcher was scheduled to keynote the Center’s annual dinner in May 1997 and I…
He’s actually behind something pretty big.
For International Women's Day, here is a personal reflection on one of the great women of the 20th century
Socialism is not about sharing. In fact, it is about replacing sharing with government redistribution, which is not the same thing.
As July 4 approaches, can picnics, parades, and fireworks be far behind? That includes fireworks of more than one variety. After all, the Fourth of July can also be an…
Capitalism has lifted more people out of poverty than anything else in human history. Countries which remain poor need more of it, not less. And, to become rich themselves they…
I have decided that Mitch deserves at least one more post from me looking back at his and the Center’s accomplishments in the “early days” of our existence. And I…
This is another one of my “post-Roast” tributes reflecting on some of Mitch Pearlstein’s accomplishments during the “early days” of the Center. My previous piece, which includes the fun poem…
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.
Economists Thomas Piketty and Arthur Laffer agree that high tax rates do not bring high tax revenues.
Redistributionists stifle Minnesota's economic growth potential.
The Center's founder recalls the Center's earliest days, its ongoing triumphs, its occasional challenges, then looks to the future.
Over 25 years, Center of the American Experiment has evolved into a creative architect of market-based policy ideas. And the best is yet to come.