All 2026 Publications

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1. An Evening with the Mackinac Center
2. The Power of Ideas: The Overton Window and the American Revolution
3. Freeing Health Care Markets: State Solutions for Coverage, Costs, and Innovation
4. The Power of Ideas: The Overton Window and the American Revolution
6. Water, Watts and Wealth: The Costs and Benefits of Data Centers in Michigan
7. What Michigan Can Learn About Reading From Mississippi
8. Free Market Road Show
9. ‘People bemoan that they can't trust the news’
10. Walter Isaacson to Headline Mackinac Center Event
11. Keep Michigan’s budget sustainable
12. Capping credit card rates unnecessary, harmful
13. Making Drug Policy Work for Patients, Not Institutions
14. Mississippi Learning
15. A Lesson from St. Patrick’s Day Celebrations
16. The ideas that built America still matter
17. How Trump can make homeownership affordable
18. Coalitions Director
19. Limit zoning to make Michigan grow again
20. Michigan lawmakers move to protect reasonable childhood independence
21. Let’s Build Michigan: Why Housing Costs Have Spiked and How to Fix It
22. Right to compute moves forward in other states
23. Michigan taxpayers build it, but nobody comes
24. ‘All of your data has been stolen’
25. IMPACT January/February 2026
26. Cigarette smuggling increase on the docket in Washington State
27. ‘SAFE’ bills are not safe
28. Seven habits of highly civil people
29. Michigan subsidy picks are a short seller’s bonanza
30. Beware of most-favored-nation drug pricing regs
31. Tax hikes and smuggling: Will Michigan tempt scofflaws?
32. Laws have unintended consequences
33. Time to rein in old MEGA gravy train
34. Mackinac Center partners for historic summit
35. Why Michigan needs more housing, despite a flat population
36. ‘We don't wear capes’
37. Make Michigan competitive again
38. Michigan Can’t Subsidize Its Way to Growth — It Must Build Its Way There
39. Setting the record straight on schools of choice
40. Michigan Lawmakers Introduce Housing Reform Bills
41. Lawmakers should reject sales tax holidays
42. Voters can lower their own property taxes under Michigan rules
43. I (heart) freedom, and you should too
44. Michigan only enacted 74 laws in 2025. So what?
45. Senior discount won’t solve Michigan’s property tax problem
46. Interest rates should be left to the private market
47. House bill a shot in the arm for Schools of Choice law
48. ‘A country where opportunity is still possible’
49. Licensing rules make Michigan’s health care problems worse
50. Director of Labor Policy / Staff Attorney
51. All former governors join Mackinac Center civility panel
52. Freedom Notes U.S.A.: Americans want the lights on
53. Rhode Island’s Cigarette Tax Hike Would Fuel Smuggling
54. Rochester Schools Trustee Sues to Protect Her Right to Speak with Constituents
55. Rochester Schools Trustee Sues to Protect Her Right to Speak with Constituents
56. Indiana chokes with new cigarette taxes
57. Advancement/Events Internship
58. Education Policy Internship
59. Mackinac Center Legal Foundation Internship
60. Marketing and Communications Internship
61. Michigan Capitol Confidential Internship
62. Morey Fiscal Policy Internship
63. Research Assistant Internship
64. The meaning of America, 250 years later
65. What’s the real poverty line?
66. Grand Rapids should publish its 311 data
67. The state of housing in Michigan
68. Mackinac Center Announces 2026 Policy Priorities
69. Does Michigan Reconnect get people better paying jobs?
70. Public Policy Recommendations 2026
71. Let interest rates find their market rate
72. ‘Everything exploded in the world of online teaching’
73. Want to boost Michigan? Stop punishing R&D
74. Give credit where due on the roads deal
75. We need real performance metrics for Michigan public universities
76. M.L.K.’s campaign of ideas
77. Michigan hospitals aren’t using charity program for charity
78. Before spending, ask, ‘Is this thing working?’
79. Caregivers pay SEIU dues for no real union benefits
80. It’s time for focus on the debate over subsidies to corporations
81. IMPACT November/December 2025
82. What is the role of a think tank?
83. Matthew Sheldon v. OAPSE
84. Legislature Approved Zero New Business Subsidies in 2025
85. ‘People are very bad at managing their own finances’
86. Mackinac Center Comment to FDA Regarding Modified Risk Tobacco Products
87. Government makes a bad Santa Claus
88. More solar energy is wrong for Michigan
89. 3 ways to rebuild Americans' trust in government
90. America’s flirtation with socialism
91. Whitmer should form a commission to review pandemic response