World War II

He’s actually behind something pretty big.

All too often, the same legislators who raise taxes to discourage some behavior fail to apply this logic to other taxes. At the capitol this week, Rep. Lesch was a…

And it's a spending problem, not a revenue problem — making proposals like "Medicare for All" or a "Green New Deal" even more worrisome.

An anti-mining group is wrong about Minnesota’s mineral wealth.

At one point, the market was on track for its worst December since the Great Depression. So what's happening?

One of the great myths of public policy is that politicians can help themselves to more money simply by raising tax rates. As the evidence shows, it ain't necessarily so. 

The Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy (MCEA) recently wrote an editorial in the Minneapolis Star Tribune arguing Minnesota’s titanium, copper, nickel and platinum deposits are low-grade and economically risky to…

There was a time when leading economists would write for a mass audience, commenting on the issues of the day, and applying economic principles to them. These six books offer…

The biggest battle in American history began 100 years ago today. Yet, today, it seems to be largely forgotten.

Not so fast! That’s the essence of the Star Tribune’s editorial aimed at the new slate of Minneapolis Park Board commissioners who ran on reform but now want to more…

A new report commissioned by a group of scientists appointed by the UN Secretary-General claims capitalism, as we know it, is over. The team from the BIOS Research Unit in…

Anti-pipeline activists forget that engineering is a science, and that it allows us to transport oil and natural gas safely through pipelines more than 99.999 percent of the time. These…

The author, the great-grandmother of Kim Crockett, came with her parents to the United States from Czechoslovakia as a very young girl, then Katharine Jirsa. She later taught school in…

Bonnie Blodgett recently penned a pessimistic piece in the Minneapolis Star Tribune, but cheer up, Bonnie! Things are getting better!

Skilled trades are, for the most part, a predominantly male bastion. But community and technical colleges in Minneapolis and St. Paul are ramping up their efforts to get more women…

New figures indicate that two thirds of Millennials had never heard of Auschwitz and nearly a quarter had not heard of the Holocaust. Figures also suggest that Millennials are the…

In a new paper titled Youth Unemployment Worldwide: The Canary in the Coal Mine of Excessive Regulation, the economist Deirdre McCloskey looks at the causes and consequences of youth unemployment…

No region has suffered more from historical neglect than the Midwest.

One of the virtues of writing a book is that an endnote in somebody else’s book leads you to track down a third book you should have read a long…

The pace of technological change is such that the skills you have at 20 are likely to be obsolete halfway through your working life. To keep pace, education must become…

For a group so obsessed with calling out “fake news” the media sure does a good job of perpetuating it. The phony flap over the fake racist note at St.…

A closer look at U.S. refugee resettlement policies and the impact on Minnesota

In the wake of the Trump election, First Things columnist Pete Spiliakos gives some well-deserved pushback to fear-stricken left-wing college students and social-liberal activists.  After listing a few of his “legitimate”…

The first chapter of Shelby Steele’s book Shame: How America’s Past Sins Have Polarized Our Country is a powerful, personalized critique of the reigning liberal paradigm and a valuable perspective…