All 2026 Publications

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1. A Taxing Debate in Michigan: Growth, Fairness and Trade-Offs
2. Rx Kids, Poverty Solutions and the Social Safety Net
3. Planning for Life Workshop
4. When the State Becomes Guardian: Building a Better Foster System for Michigan Children
5. An Evening with the Mackinac Center
6. The Power of Ideas: The Overton Window and the American Revolution
7. Is The World Better Off With America?
8. Commonsense Election Reforms in Michigan (And Beyond)
9. Detroit: All that glitters might not remain gold
10. Michigan could not be built today
11. Think your electric bill is high?
12. Michigan legalized dental therapists in 2018, but only a few practice
13. ‘Affordable housing: No matter what they say in public, they're terrified of it’
14. Virtue-signaling with state holidays
15. Freeing Health Care Markets: State Solutions for Coverage, Costs, and Innovation
16. Make room for growth
17. Court freezes hidden earmarks in major win for Michigan taxpayers
18. Some Detroiters pay high property taxes, others don’t
19. Whitmer’s budget proposals do not lower costs
20. For once, Michigan said no to new business subsidies
21. Michigan should embrace zoning reform, reject housing subsidies
22. Advancement Data Specialist
23. School choice critics’ glaring double standard
24. A Choice Situation
25. Coalitions Director
26. Film Subsidies are an Expensive Flop
27. States can cure federal pharma fever
28. Detroit’s zoning history offers lessons for today
29. ‘You never talk to the people who lost the lottery, right?’
30. Unions Leverage Retirement Funds for Political Agendas
31. Unions and ESG: From Worker Representation to Shareholder Activism
32. Legislation Could Threaten Popular Small Consumer Loan Programs
33. Whitmer promised transparency and delivered gag orders
34. Oversight is a key role for local officials
35. The Power of Ideas: The Overton Window and the American Revolution
36. It’s Groundhog Day all over again on free trade
37. IMPACT March/April 2026
38. Michigan’s inflated teacher evals are failing students
39. Price hikes tied to wind and solar
41. Union Township receives recognition, but its performance underwhelms
42. Reform Michigan unemployment insurance
43. Water, Watts and Wealth: The Costs and Benefits of Data Centers in Michigan
44. Freedom notes U.S.A.: Nebraska takes over federal environmental reviews
45. ‘Let me pretend this is true, OK?’
46. ‘The difference between having a good idea and having others embrace it’
47. On housing, local vs. state control is the wrong question
48. Trump, Whitmer and the problem of emergency powers
49. What election reforms are actually possible?
50. What Michigan Can Learn About Reading From Mississippi
51. Michigan’s pandemic lockdowns need a full review
52. The False Promise of Film Incentives
53. The billion-dollar idea Detroit should consider
54. How Civility Strengthens Policy
55. The state of Whitmer’s state
56. Time to make full use of the new earmarks process
57. High gas prices don’t justify emergency powers
58. Free Market Road Show
59. Food trucks, often banned or heavily regulated, may get a chance to thrive
60. ‘If we do meet resistance from elected officials in Detroit, we’ll fund a referendum’
61. Prescription Drug Toolkit Urges States to Take a Bigger Role
62. Yes, other states are building much more housing than Michigan
63. Almost everyone agrees that municipal zoning rules are too strict
64. Where did Michigan’s surplus go?
65. Mackinac Center Applauds Bipartisan Action on Physician Licenses
66. The Free Market Remedy for Drug Pricing Ills
67. Michigan’s tax competitiveness is at risk
68. Judge throws out Mackinac ferry monopoly claim
69. The Economic Spirit of 1776
70. Success of Rx Kids should prompt reevaluation of welfare programs
71. New Report: Michigan Should Follow Mississippi’s Lead on Reading
72. Rhode Island’s Cigarette Tax Hike Would Fuel Smuggling
73. Michigan’s Broadband moment: Time to focus on connections
74. Supreme Court Turns Away Mother’s Free Speech Appeal
75. Let’s fix licensing systems that lock ex-offenders out of work
76. ‘People bemoan that they can't trust the news’
77. Walter Isaacson to Headline Mackinac Center Event
78. Keep Michigan’s budget sustainable
79. Capping credit card rates unnecessary, harmful
80. Making Drug Policy Work for Patients, Not Institutions
81. Mississippi Learning
82. Michigan Must Have Affordable Reliable Electricity
83. A Lesson from St. Patrick’s Day Celebrations
84. The ideas that built America still matter
85. How Trump can make homeownership affordable
86. Limit zoning to make Michigan grow again
87. Michigan lawmakers move to protect reasonable childhood independence
88. Let’s Build Michigan: Why Housing Costs Have Spiked and How to Fix It
89. Right to compute moves forward in other states
90. Michigan taxpayers build it, but nobody comes
91. ‘All of your data has been stolen’
92. IMPACT January/February 2026
93. Cigarette smuggling increase on the docket in Washington State
94. ‘SAFE’ bills are not safe
95. Seven habits of highly civil people
96. Michigan subsidy picks are a short seller’s bonanza
97. Beware of most-favored-nation drug pricing regs
98. Tax hikes and smuggling: Will Michigan tempt scofflaws?
99. Laws have unintended consequences
100. Time to rein in old MEGA gravy train
101. The state of housing in Michigan
102. Mackinac Center partners for historic summit
103. Why Michigan needs more housing, despite a flat population
104. ‘We don't wear capes’
105. Make Michigan competitive again
106. Michigan Can’t Subsidize Its Way to Growth — It Must Build Its Way There
107. Setting the record straight on schools of choice
108. Michigan Lawmakers Introduce Housing Reform Bills
109. Lawmakers should reject sales tax holidays
110. Voters can lower their own property taxes under Michigan rules
111. I (heart) freedom, and you should too
112. Michigan only enacted 74 laws in 2025. So what?
113. Senior discount won’t solve Michigan’s property tax problem
114. Interest rates should be left to the private market
115. House bill a shot in the arm for Schools of Choice law
116. ‘A country where opportunity is still possible’
117. Licensing rules make Michigan’s health care problems worse
118. All former governors join Mackinac Center civility panel
119. Freedom Notes U.S.A.: Americans want the lights on
120. A Defining Moment for Civility
121. Rhode Island’s Cigarette Tax Hike Would Fuel Smuggling
122. Rochester Schools Trustee Sues to Protect Her Right to Speak with Constituents
123. Rochester Schools Trustee Sues to Protect Her Right to Speak with Constituents
124. Indiana chokes with new cigarette taxes
125. The meaning of America, 250 years later
126. What’s the real poverty line?
127. Grand Rapids should publish its 311 data
128. The state of housing in Michigan
129. Mackinac Center Announces 2026 Policy Priorities
130. Does Michigan Reconnect get people better paying jobs?
131. Public Policy Recommendations 2026
132. Does Michigan Reconnect get people better paying jobs?
133. Give credit where due on the roads deal
134. More solar energy is wrong for Michigan
135. Let interest rates find their market rate
136. ‘Everything exploded in the world of online teaching’
137. Want to boost Michigan? Stop punishing R&D
138. Give credit where due on the roads deal
139. We need real performance metrics for Michigan public universities
140. M.L.K.’s campaign of ideas
141. Michigan hospitals aren’t using charity program for charity
142. Before spending, ask, ‘Is this thing working?’
143. Caregivers pay SEIU dues for no real union benefits
144. It’s time for focus on the debate over subsidies to corporations
145. IMPACT November/December 2025
146. What is the role of a think tank?
147. Matthew Sheldon v. OAPSE
148. Legislature Approved Zero New Business Subsidies in 2025
149. ‘People are very bad at managing their own finances’
150. Mackinac Center Comment to FDA Regarding Modified Risk Tobacco Products
151. Government makes a bad Santa Claus
152. More solar energy is wrong for Michigan
153. 3 ways to rebuild Americans' trust in government
154. America’s flirtation with socialism
155. Whitmer should form a commission to review pandemic response