Welcome back to the American Experiment Podcast! This week, Grace and Kathryn take a behind-the-scenes look at the breaking news of the week: Minnesota taxpayers have been funding terrorism abroad. Then, because of that shocking discovery, President Trump...
Have you watched this video yet? Three million others have (and counting). American Experiment released the video last month to promote our recent report titled Shattered Green Dreams: The Environmental Costs of Wind and Solar. The goal of the video was to...
This month, Xcel Energy asked state regulators in Colorado to extend the operating life of the coal-fired Comanche Unit 2 for another year. Xcel Energy seems to understand the importance of coal in Colorado. What will it take for Xcel to recognize the same in...
Robin Jayderi (or Javier) Marroquin-Pineda of Guatemala, age 29, is our Minnesota Man of the Day for November 25. He’s one of our OG’s in the Minnesota Man series, having been indicted back in February. He is due in federal court in downtown Minneapolis this...
Yesterday, I looked at why Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita growth in Minnesota has ranked 38th out of 50 states since 2014. Using the framework and data from our recent report “Accounting for Growth: Measuring the sources of per capita economic growth...
Governor Tim Walz has presented himself as a champion for those who got tough breaks along the way, but Minnesotans who live with addiction and disabilities are getting caught in the crossfire of the fraud crisis. These are folks who need help and it is the...
From KARE-11-TV, Feeding Our Future defendant ordered to pay nearly $48M restitution:Abdimajid Nur played a key role in the largest pandemic fraud scheme in the country, prosecutors say. Needless to say, were aren’t ever going to see that $48 million again....
Abdirashid Bixi Dool, age 36, became the 78th defendant charged in the Feeding Our Future fraud scandal. He was indicted on seven counts related to the Feeding Our Future fraud, according to a press release issued by the U.S. Attorney’s office today. Dool is...
Axios reported yesterday that the chair of the Democratic National Committee, Ken Martin, is mulling the use of ranked-choice voting (RCV) for the 2028 presidential primary. Interest in RCV has exploded since New York City Democrats nominated, and subsequently...
This summer, Congress passed The Educational Choice for Children Act (ECCA) as part of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. The ECCA allows every taxpayer nationwide to gain up to $1700 in tax credit when they donate to a scholarship granting organization (SGO)....