I break down the $1 billion Minnesota fraud estimate and where it comes from. Local reporter Lou Raguse of the NBC-affiliate KARE-11 has produced a helpful 2:33 video explaining the…
One falsehood tends to lead to another, and then another… During a November 30 appearance on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” host Kristen Welker asked Governor Walz: “Do you take responsibility…
Welcome back to the American Experiment Podcast! Minnesota is back in the national spotlight, again, for all the wrong reasons. Even the national media is now saying what we at…
We have added a new item to Scandal Tracker 2025TM and we are scanning the horizon for more examples of waste, fraud, and abuse. Give credit to A.J. Lagoe and…
Yesterday, KARE-11 TV ran a new story in their investigative series on the addiction treatment industry in Minnesota. This time, KARE-11 uncovers what appears to be a massive overbilling scandal…
One of the most important issues to American parents this voting cycle was education, according to an October poll conducted by Morning Consult on behalf of EdChoice. A national sample…
Last week’s vice-presidential debate once again elevated the very controversial abortion law that Gov. Tim Walz signed in 2023, which many pro-life advocates claim now allows a doctor to let…
Jason Metsa, former DFL state representative from the Iron Range (2013-2019), and former Deputy Commissioner of the state agency Iron Range Resources and Rehabilitation Board (IRRRB), was arrested yesterday and…
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More than 60 percent of North Dakota primary voters approved a first-ever age limit of 80 for members of Congress, setting the stage for a likely legal challenge of the…
Here we go again. The congresswoman from Minnesota (representing the 5th district–Minneapolis and nearby suburbs) has stirred up another international controversy. And, as always, local media show little interest. [Update:…
Journalist Matt Taibbi tells John Hinderaker why the First Amendment is under threat from Big Government and Big Tech.
KARE-11’s Lou Raguse drew my attention to this free-food fraud story out of St. Louis. The alleged fraud involved ($21 million) seems like small potatoes compared to the numbers up…
The Bureau of Labor Statistics announced this week that inflation rose by 8.5 percent in the year to March. This is the fastest annual rate of increase since December 1981.…
On Thursday, February 3, American Experiment reported on a new study by economists at Johns Hopkins University that finds the body of empirical evidence shows lockdowns had “little to no…
Lawmakers should keep in mind that Minnesota's childcare woes predate COVID-19 and are chiefly a result of overregulation.
Zoom has seen tremendous growth in revenue due to an increase in the number of people using its video calling software during the shutdown. During the second quarter, Zoom saw…
The April jobs report is terrible and when Minnesota's numbers come out they are unlikely to be any better. Indications are that poorer counties and lower paid occupations will have…
John Hinderaker, President of Center of the American Experiment, released the following statement in response to the extension of Gov. Tim Walz’s stay-at-home order: “State leaders must release the model they are using to…
Private sector broadcasters like NBC have an incentive to provide programming the public likes. 'Public' sector broadcasters like TPT have an incentive to provide programming the government likes. That is…
Strassel will keynote event.
1968 did not usher in the Age of Aquarius. From the glimpses we got, like the Manson Family and Altamont, it would have been the ultimate bad trip.
In a 2008 book, three of the most insightful and innovative people I know in education wrote, “by 2019, about 50 percent of high school courses will be delivered online.”…
The show will go on at Pine Island High School in Pine Island, Minnesota. The home of the Panthers was one of fifty high schools—and the only one in Minnesota—to…