With increased scrutiny, people are asking how the money is being spent and whether the programs implemented are effectively treating and preventing opioid addiction or actually furthering addiction.
The most recent example began with a question from a Fargo police officer to one of the city commissioners — were its public health staff distributing pipes to drug users?…
In October 2023, the British Parliament passed the Online Safety Act (OSA). Ostensibly to protect children, this law obliges companies to identify and mitigate the risk of users encountering “illegal”…
Clearly, the nation had shifted.
On November 2, 1965, John Lindsay became the first Republican elected Mayor of New York City since Fiorello La Guardia in 1941 and the last until Rudolph Giuliani in 1993.…
That spirit—that commitment to team and teammates, that willingness to endure pain and struggle, in order to do his best, to help his team—exemplifies the best of North Dakotans.
North Dakota joined the majority of states in passing legislation to restrict such medical “care” for minors.
After the framing of the Constitution of the United States was completed in 1787, a bitter argument followed over its ratification. The earliest political factions in the United States were…
This tragedy is only the most recent in a long line of violent attacks with apparent political or ideological motives. It is an epidemic, a cancer on our culture, and…
Charlie Kirk, co-founder and executive director of Turning Point USA, was shot today during an event at Utah Valley University. He is reported to have died. Our prayers and best wishes…
At our old office in Golden Valley, Tom Steward worked from a small desk in the mail room next to a very large (and loud) copy machine. Perhaps that was…
Tom Strinden, husband of North Dakota Lt. Gov. Michelle Strinden, died Sunday, July 13, after a battle with cancer. American Experiment North Dakota Senior Policy Fellow and retired ND Speaker…
Over the last few weeks, I’ve written about how North Dakota and its neighbors have very different economic policies but very similar employment outcomes and how they have similarly high levels of what is called “social…
Over the last couple of weeks, I’ve written about how North Dakota and its neighbors have very different economic policies but very similar employment outcomes and how they do have similarly high levels of…
“A republic, if you can keep it.” Benjamin Franklin spoke those words in Philadelphia, where the delegates to the Constitutional Convention were leaving Independence Hall in 1787. A crowd had…
Since the 1970s, America’s political right movement has been a coalition of libertarians and conservatives, both of whom felt that the federal government had gotten too big for its britches,…