"The light that burns twice as bright burns half as long", as someone once said. It was just 29 months from the release of CCR's first LP to the release…
I had the pleasure of talking energy policy in Minnesota with King Banaian as we talked about the Xcel gas shortage and how relying on even more intermittent renewable energy…
All that’s needed is a bit of spending restraint to put the budget on a glide path to balance.
You probably don’t think of the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency as a go-to source for fashion tips. But in its latest “Living Green 365” bulletin, the state agency urges Minnesotans…
With Valentine’s Day about a week away, heart chocolates, plush animals and sappy cards are out in full force. Except Minnesotans don’t appear all that eager to celebrate the holiday…
President Trump in his State of the Union last night, once again, spoke about violent crime committed by undocumented immigrants. And once again, skeptics afterwards were quick to point out,…
Last week saw temperatures in Minnesota plummet to 24 below zero in the Twin Cities, and International Falls registered a temperature of minus 36 degrees. It was so cold outside…
And it's a spending problem, not a revenue problem — making proposals like "Medicare for All" or a "Green New Deal" even more worrisome.
Today was a normal February day in Minnesota; it was about 10 degrees, with heavy drifting and blowing snow, and the roads had patches of ice left over from freezing…
The following article originally appeared in the Financial Times: Does it make any sense to build nuclear plants in Britain? Not obviously, unless you are an atomic evangelist. In recent…
It is true that Minnesota has a high quality of living, but that is despite the state's high taxes, not because of them.
Augsburg University’s suspension of a respected history and medieval studies professor who quoted a passage from a James Baldwin book that included the “N-word” in an honors seminar has ignited…
For newly retired Minnesota teachers, the “average pension” from the past ten years is $27,593. But the estimated percentage of new teachers who will actually receive a pension is 50…
This post appeared at MinnPost on February 13, 2019. There has been no shortage of books over the last decade about how Americans are in centrifugal flight from one other. Journalist…
The Star Tribune recently ran an opinion piece by James Lenfestey, who advocated for an increase in the gas tax to finance infrastructure improvements and to reduce carbon dioxide emissions,…
New research shows that higher state business and personal tax rates mean fewer businesses, less employment, and reduced capital investment. Minnesota has the fourth highest top marginal individual income tax rate in…
Join Opportunity for All Kids and Center of the American Experiment for the second annual 7k for Kids Fun Run on Saturday, October 11th in Plymouth. There will be a…
Minnesota’s fraud problem made national headlines as criminals took advantage of our state’s generous welfare programs and lax oversight to steal billions of taxpayer dollars. Join American Experiment’s fraud expert…
As part of American Experiment’s Minnesota School Board Toolkit, this video walks through how to access reading and math proficiency results for a school or district.
Amidst mounting frustration with the state and national teachers’ union, a small group of teachers in Becker, Minnesota decided to try something different. They successfully petitioned the state to call…