The effort to standardize state election procedures by banning approval and ranked choice voting continues to move forward in the state legislature. The North Dakota House of Representatives overwhelmingly voted…
The North Dakota House of Representatives debated and passed HB 1540 establishing Education Savings Accounts (ESA) this week, rebounding from a setback in the Education Committee where it received a…
The U.S. Energy Department, under the leadership of Secretary Chris Wright, announced its priorities last week in a Secretarial order. The order reads, in part: 1. Advance Energy Addition, Not…
Center of the American Experiment announced today that former Minnesota House Majority Leader Matt Dean has been hired as a Policy Fellow covering state health care policy. Dean will replace…
Center of the American Experiment announced today that Peter Nelson, Senior Policy Fellow at the Center of the American Experiment, has been named by President Donald Trump to lead the…
The Energy Information Administration (EIA) published a brief on January 30, 2025, showing that the U.S. imports nearly all of the uranium concentrate used to power commercial nuclear reactors. In…
Over the weekend, a Chinese artificial intelligence company announced that its open-source AI model, DeepSeek-R1, required only a small fraction of the investment that U.S. tech companies are pouring into…
In a show of support for educational freedom, North Dakota Gov. Kelly Armstrong issued a proclamation stating that Jan. 26 – Feb. 1, 2025, is officially School Choice Week in…
Happy National School Choice Week! New survey results reveal that 60 percent of U.S. parents said they considered new or different schools for at least one of their kids last…
On Monday, the South Dakota House of Representatives passed HB 1052, which would ban eminent domain for carbon pipelines. This is a predictable backlash to the Summit Carbon Solutions Pipeline…
School districts could lose hundreds of thousands of dollars or more in funding for failure to comply with state laws under a bill before the North Dakota Legislature. The measure…
The U.S. House of Representatives passed the Fix Our Forests Act on January 23. The bill, if passed by the Senate, would serve as a means of expediting review of…
In 2020, nearly every governor in the nation shut down schools, tacitly declaring schools to be non-essential. While instruction ostensibly went online, many school districts were ill-equipped for virtual classes.…
Put education into the hands of parents and the free market, and results improve. Public schools and universal compulsory attendance laws are relatively new, yet American literacy rates were exceedingly…
Children are given to parents, not the government. Under the U.S. Constitution’s First and Fourteenth Amendments, the right of parents to choose a unique education for their children should not…
There’s been no hysteria over mysterious drones in the North Dakota skies, unlike other parts of the country. Yet hundreds of Chinese-manufactured drones operated by North Dakota state agencies are…