How to break free from Minnesota’s education cartel. American Experiment has a reputation for boldly engaging the public square, educating the people of Minnesota on issues ranging from education to…
Author, journalist, gubernatorial candidate, and California resident Michael Shellenberger has been a fearless voice exposing the policy mistakes made in the Golden State regarding crime, homelessness, environmental alarmism, and leadership.…
In their first paycheck of 2026, Minnesotans will see a new deduction. The 0.44 percent payroll tax, matched by another 0.44 percent paid by their employer — 0.88 percent in…
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.…
There’s no free lunch The dollar figure for providing the controversial free school meal program to every K-12 student in the state so closely mirrors what it would cost to…
Following recent mass shooting events in the Twin Cities area, some involving assault-style rifles, a renewed call for more gun control measures has emerged. Governor Walz has declared that he…
“We’ve raised graduation rates to the highest ever,” remarks Gov. Tim Walz in his recent reelection campaign video. Unlike the governor’s proneness to misspeak while campaigning for vice president —…
Regulation Duluth News Tribune: Our View: Minnesota’s wild rice standard demands compromise Grand Forks Herald: At Iron Range hearing, miners warn of closures if wild rice rule enforced St. Cloud…
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…
KARE-11 TV is out with a report: KARE 11 Investigates: Ethics questions emerge over Sen. Fateh’s housing bill and wife’s company ties. Sen. Omar Fateh (DFL-Minneapolis) is by some accounts…
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 March this year, we learned that MMB…
A law passed by the 2023 DFL-controlled Minnesota Legislature that bars certain religious colleges and universities from participating in the state’s 40-year-old Postsecondary Enrollment Options (PSEO) program has been ruled…
Bill Walsh has put together this video including the career highlights of state Sen. Omar Fateh (DFL-Minneapolis), a leading candidate for mayor of Minneapolis this year. I’ve been following the…
We take an early look at the DFL money game for 2025. The election calendar this year will be dominated by city-level races in Minneapolis and St. Paul. Also, there…
Photo Credit: MinnPost photo by Peter Callaghan. In May last year, I wrote about how: …the DFL, in scenes that would embarrass a banana republic, [rammed] through a 1,400 page Omnibus…
The Education Minnesota teachers union and oil-heiress Alida Messinger continued to dominate the DFL money game last year. You will recall my Minnesota For Sale series of years past, tracing…
Minnesota Advanced Placement pass rates have recovered after their dramatic drop to 60.4 percent during the deeply challenging 2020-2021 school year. Schools made strong efforts to regain these losses due…
The DFL’s left and right go to war. On July 7, 1977, state DFL Rep. Phyllis Kahn from Minneapolis addressed a meeting at the Capitol’s State Office Building in St.…
A look at legislation set to reduce prison and community supervision time for thousands of Minnesota’s convicted felons. In the midst of the torrent of progressive legislation in 2023 during…
If he wins, Tim Walz will be the first Minnesota governor elected to a third four-year term.
Welcome back to the American Experiment Podcast with Grace Keating and Kathryn Johnson! First, Grace and Kathryn discuss the latest Minnesota story to make national headlines: a naked man running…
Sentencing was today in the case of that horror June 2023 car crash that killed five young women off Lake Street in south Minneapolis. KSTP reports: Derrick Thompson gets over…
The City of Minneapolis announced it is about to implement a new $12 million camera-based traffic citation system near five (5) intersections, with plans to expand to over forty (40)…
In May, a bipartisan effort to establish a new state watchdog agency to crack down on fraud in public programs passed the state Senate with broad bipartisan support. It would…