Conflicting political positions on gun control and criminality make Minnesotans less safe.
Minnesota’s Department of Education greenlights decolonization and ideological extremism.
On Oct. 7, 2023, the world witnessed Hamas’ brutal invasion of Israel — the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust. In the days that followed, loud voices attempted to…
News of note in Minnesota: Center events, initiatives, and policy work.
In 2008, Brian Flowers, a month shy of 17, participated with another juvenile male in the brutal murders of Katricia Daniels and her 10-year-old son Robert Shepard in their North…
Photo: Tony Webster via Flickr. Licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 DEED Tomorrow the Walz administration plans to close the historic Upper Sioux Agency State Park to the public forever, transferring…
The Duluth News Tribune had an excellent piece by its editorial board this week that warned Minnesotans about the Walz administration’s attempt to enact a stealth gas tax in the…
The Minnesota Legislature is about to build another new office building for themselves, and the Golden Turkey committee is here for it. Without a single vote on the floor of…
One of the strangest and most disturbing political trends in recent years has been the enthusiastic embrace by many on the “left” of the most putrid racial politics long associated…
In 2023, we had an incredible 3 million views on AmericanExperiment.org — nearly 1 million more than last year. Our Policy Fellows work hard every day to give you the…
The never-ending (not so) merry-go-round.
Within days of residents rejecting Rochester schools’ $10 million technology levy referendum last month, Superintendent Kent Pekel effectively dismissed the voters’ verdict and put the measure back on the table.…
The legislature appropriates more money, the unions grab it for salaries, the school board cuts middle school band, and everyone blames the legislature for underfunding. Rinse and repeat.
The Minnesota Legislature is about to build another new office building for themselves and once again, they’re doing it without ever taking a vote on the floor of the House…
College enrollment continues to decline in most institutions of higher education on both sides of the Red River in the Fargo-Moorhead region. The steady erosion of enrollment on college campuses…
Five years after a landmark SCOTUS decision, public employees continue exercising their restored freedom of association.
The Minnesota Legislature is about to build yet another new office building for themselves and once again, they’re doing it without ever taking a vote on the floor of the…
An administrative law judge (ALJ) is considering proposed changes to Minnesota’s K-12 academic standards in social studies. He will weigh the changes against statutory requirements for revising academic standards and…
Shootings of Minnesota peace officers executing search warrants have increased significantly since the de facto ban on “no-knock” search warrants. Our peace officers deserve better. The use of no-knock search warrants…
In this edition of Follow the Money™, we begin what ultimately will be a deep dive into the state’s ethnic studies industrial complex. One of the more controversial bills passed…
Senator Tina Smith may think that “Bidenomics” is working, but it doesn’t feel that way to the average American. Fox 9 ran a story recently titled “Americans are giving less…
According to the Pioneer Press, St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter on Thursday vetoed a city council measure to put funding of early childhood initiatives on the 2024 ballot. One really interesting…
Arguing that payday loans are exploitative, the Minnesota Legislature passed a law restricting interest rates charged on such loans. But as it turns out, that has had some negative consequences.…
It’s too late to do anything to lure back the owners of a proposed $440 million wood processing mill that pulled out of the northern Minnesota project earlier this year…