One measure of the astounding success of the current ICE operation in Minnesota can be found in the explosion of Habeas Corpus filings in Federal District Court in Minnesota. It seems that as soon as an illegal alien is taken into custody, a lawyer rushes to...
You will recall back in March 2025 the news reports of Gov. Tim Walz celebrating a brief drop in the stock price of Elon Musk’s electric car company, Tesla (ticker symbol TSLA). The Hill newspaper reported at the time. Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) told a crowd...
A quick look at current Minneapolis crime statistics shows a sharp drop in nearly all crime categories since the surge began. Here is the latest crime dashboard, with statistics posted through January 12. Assaults are up, both year to date and over the past...
One way to assess Minnesota’s high school educational prowess is to look at ACT scores throughout the years. Originally a primarily Midwestern alternative to the SAT, the ACT is a college admittance exam administered today to millions of high schoolers....
It was reported today that U.S. Attorney Joe Thompson has resigned and that at least six of his colleagues have resigned also. This is a hard blow to the fight against fraud in Minnesota. As I noted recently, and despite attacks from the state’s political...
Welcome Back to the American Experiment Podcast! The year is already off to a fast and furious start, and today’s episode takes on one of the biggest misinformation campaigns hitting Minnesota right now: ICE. Grace and Kathryn break down and debunk the fake...
Inflation Today, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) announced that: The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) increased 0.3 percent on a seasonally adjusted basis in December…. Over the last 12 months, the all items index increased 2.7 percent...
Last week agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) were conducting targeted immigration enforcement in South Minneapolis, when agent Jonathan Ross fatally shot an activist, Renee Good, who drove her car at Ross and struck his leg. In the days...
Lost in all of the news last week was this item involving local U.S. Congresswoman Ilhan Omar (D-Minneapolis), from The Hill newspaper, GOP backlash to Omar earmark slows government-funding bill. The legislation involved was part of one of the dozen or so...
Back in October, I wrote about Minnesota’s relatively poor performance on Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita growth in the last decade. To investigate this, I wanted to do what economists call a “growth accounting” exercise for Minnesota, which breaks down...