The sad thing is that North Dakota didn’t need to find itself in this regrettable situation.
Census Bureau data show that, between July 1, 2020, and July 1, 2024, North Dakota’s population grew by 2.2%. This was slower than in 22 other states, as Figure 1 shows,…
One argument against education choice programs is that expanding parental freedom to access alternative learning environments doesn’t mean much in areas with limited options. But a recent study of universal…
Last week, I noted that North Dakota and its neighbors have very different economic policies but very similar employment outcomes. I concluded that “there is some other factor (or factors) driving…
The New York Post’s Dec. 9, 2024 article contained exclusive polling taken in November of that year showing that most Americans don’t understand the risks of wind and solar or the…
On Nov. 5, 2024, Donald Trump won his second presidential term. But that day was important for another reason: Ranked choice voting was soundly rejected — except in Washington, D.C.,…
Vance Boelter, 57, stands charged in both federal and state court related to the murders of Minnesota Representative Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark in their Brooklyn Park home, and…
An honest review of those Founders’ original intent for the judiciary reveals that it was designed to be the final arbiter of legal cases, but not the final word on…
“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…
Homer Simpson, patriarch of the Simpson family and the eponymous, long-running animated sitcom “The Simpsons,” is the ineffective safety inspector in Sector 7G of Springfield’s nuclear power plant. The main…
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,…
In October 2024, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel to Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, and James A.…
A new report released today by American Experiment North Dakota warns that the environmental costs of wind, solar, and battery storage are routinely underestimated in public policy discussions, while the benefits of…
We have a mystery. Data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics consistently show that North Dakota and its neighbor to the east, Minnesota, have among the highest rates of employment…
Is good will among Americans of different perspectives in danger of extinction?
Vance Luther Boelter, 57, the man charged with killing Minnesota Representative Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark last Saturday in their Brooklyn Park home, was arrested Sunday evening near his Green Isle…