Tailwinds and headwinds When I fly back to Britain, I know early on whether I will approach Heathrow by skipping along the south coasts of Ireland and Wales from the…
Palo Alto’s Emerson Collective LLC appears to have done exactly that in the case of an Assistant Commissioner slot at the state Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED). In…
Questioning the inclusion of ideological agendas in K-12 education is not opposition to fact-based history, as teachers’ unions and activists claim. In fact, making such a claim is a distraction…
Jon Sanders of the John Locke Foundation wrote a great piece for the American Institute for Economic Research discussing how liberals will eventually try to normalize the blackouts that their…
Last year on Earth Day, I wrote about Norman Borlaug, the University of Minnesota graduate whose work creating new, higher-yielding wheat varieties helped save one billion people from starvation and…
We must no longer tolerate the petty criminals who ultimately hold our communities hostage to fear and lawlessness.
Mask-optional policies in cities and businesses are becoming more prevalent, but many children continue to face mask mandates in school, leaving them with more restrictions than their parents. Based on…
Times’ columnist is consistently unhelpful.
Based on Governor Walz's recent executive order, the state's guidance for public schools was updated yesterday to note that "all school districts and charter schools must offer a distance learning…
Last week, the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources and the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency issued key permits for the Line 3 oil pipeline. Enbridge, the company who operates Line 3,…
In her new book, Vicky Osterweil travels so far left she ends up on the furthest fringes of the right.
The following article originally appeared in Forbes. It was written by Michael Shellenberger. Fires have burned 1.3 million acres of California’s forests over the last month. That’s one million acres more than…
One man's journey from first rate academic economist to tedious, partisan bore.
George Packer is a staff writer for The Atlantic and lives in New York City. Like most of us, he is the product of public schools and a strong believer…
“Most economic fallacies derive from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at the expense of another” - Milton Friedman
In today’s Wall Street Journal, editorial board member Allysia Finley writes a powerful piece (“Will the Senate Kill a Mockingbird?”) that describes the haunting similarities between the current Kavanaugh ordeal…
Fifty years ago this week the Soviet Union invaded Czechoslovakia to crush a pro-democracy political movement. Five days later, protesters gathered in Chicago to demonstrate at the Democratic convention there.…
A new organization, the Restaurant Workers of America, has been founded to fight for their rights to negotiate their own terms of employment.
Gustavus Adolphus is teaching students how to fight fake news. There is concern, though, that the college's library encourages students to trust media outlets from only one end of the…
Conservative author and pundit will headline the 2016 Fall Briefing.
Lots of alarm has been coming from the Star Tribune editorial page during the past few weeks, regarding the Southwest light rail project. The Strib is fretting over the possibility…
As Minnesota road congestion grows, great sums of public dollars are being committed to an expensive and slow fixed rail system that moves few people and no freight. New transit…
The Indispensability of Competition and Choice in Minnesota K-12 Education | K-12 education in Minnesota faces many problems...