All 2026 Publications

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1. A Taxing Debate in Michigan: Growth, Fairness and Trade-Offs
2. Planning for Life Workshop
3. When the State Becomes Guardian: Building a Better Foster System for Michigan Children
4. An Evening with the Mackinac Center
5. The Power of Ideas: The Overton Window and the American Revolution
6. Freeing Health Care Markets: State Solutions for Coverage, Costs, and Innovation
7. The Power of Ideas: The Overton Window and the American Revolution
9. Water, Watts and Wealth: The Costs and Benefits of Data Centers in Michigan
10. What Michigan Can Learn About Reading From Mississippi
11. How Civility Strengthens Policy
12. The state of Whitmer’s state
13. Time to make full use of the new earmarks process
14. High gas prices don’t justify emergency powers
15. Free Market Road Show
16. Food trucks, often banned or heavily regulated, may get a chance to thrive
17. ‘If we do meet resistance from elected officials in Detroit, we’ll fund a referendum’
18. Prescription Drug Toolkit Urges States to Take a Bigger Role
19. Yes, other states are building much more housing than Michigan
20. Almost everyone agrees that municipal zoning rules are too strict
21. Where did Michigan’s surplus go?
22. Mackinac Center Applauds Bipartisan Action on Physician Licenses
23. The Free Market Remedy for Drug Pricing Ills
24. Michigan’s tax competitiveness is at risk
25. Judge throws out Mackinac ferry monopoly claim
26. The Economic Spirit of 1776
27. Success of Rx Kids should prompt reevaluation of welfare programs
28. New Report: Michigan Should Follow Mississippi’s Lead on Reading
29. Rhode Island’s Cigarette Tax Hike Would Fuel Smuggling
30. Michigan’s Broadband moment: Time to focus on connections
31. Supreme Court Turns Away Mother’s Free Speech Appeal
32. Let’s fix licensing systems that lock ex-offenders out of work
33. ‘People bemoan that they can't trust the news’
34. Walter Isaacson to Headline Mackinac Center Event
35. Keep Michigan’s budget sustainable
36. Capping credit card rates unnecessary, harmful
37. Making Drug Policy Work for Patients, Not Institutions
38. Mississippi Learning
39. A Lesson from St. Patrick’s Day Celebrations
40. The ideas that built America still matter
41. How Trump can make homeownership affordable
42. Coalitions Director
43. Limit zoning to make Michigan grow again
44. Michigan lawmakers move to protect reasonable childhood independence
45. Let’s Build Michigan: Why Housing Costs Have Spiked and How to Fix It
46. Right to compute moves forward in other states
47. Michigan taxpayers build it, but nobody comes
48. ‘All of your data has been stolen’
49. IMPACT January/February 2026
50. Cigarette smuggling increase on the docket in Washington State
51. ‘SAFE’ bills are not safe
52. Seven habits of highly civil people
53. Michigan subsidy picks are a short seller’s bonanza
54. Beware of most-favored-nation drug pricing regs
55. Tax hikes and smuggling: Will Michigan tempt scofflaws?
56. Laws have unintended consequences
57. Time to rein in old MEGA gravy train
58. Mackinac Center partners for historic summit
59. Why Michigan needs more housing, despite a flat population
60. ‘We don't wear capes’
61. Make Michigan competitive again
62. Michigan Can’t Subsidize Its Way to Growth — It Must Build Its Way There
63. Setting the record straight on schools of choice
64. Michigan Lawmakers Introduce Housing Reform Bills
65. Lawmakers should reject sales tax holidays
66. Voters can lower their own property taxes under Michigan rules
67. I (heart) freedom, and you should too
68. Michigan only enacted 74 laws in 2025. So what?
69. Senior discount won’t solve Michigan’s property tax problem
70. Interest rates should be left to the private market
71. House bill a shot in the arm for Schools of Choice law
72. ‘A country where opportunity is still possible’
73. Licensing rules make Michigan’s health care problems worse
74. Director of Labor Policy / Staff Attorney
75. All former governors join Mackinac Center civility panel
76. Freedom Notes U.S.A.: Americans want the lights on
77. Rhode Island’s Cigarette Tax Hike Would Fuel Smuggling
78. Rochester Schools Trustee Sues to Protect Her Right to Speak with Constituents
79. Rochester Schools Trustee Sues to Protect Her Right to Speak with Constituents
80. Indiana chokes with new cigarette taxes
81. The meaning of America, 250 years later
82. What’s the real poverty line?
83. Grand Rapids should publish its 311 data
84. The state of housing in Michigan
85. Mackinac Center Announces 2026 Policy Priorities
86. Does Michigan Reconnect get people better paying jobs?
87. Public Policy Recommendations 2026
88. Let interest rates find their market rate
89. ‘Everything exploded in the world of online teaching’
90. Want to boost Michigan? Stop punishing R&D
91. Give credit where due on the roads deal
92. We need real performance metrics for Michigan public universities
93. M.L.K.’s campaign of ideas
94. Michigan hospitals aren’t using charity program for charity
95. Before spending, ask, ‘Is this thing working?’
96. Caregivers pay SEIU dues for no real union benefits
97. It’s time for focus on the debate over subsidies to corporations
98. IMPACT November/December 2025
99. What is the role of a think tank?
100. Matthew Sheldon v. OAPSE
101. Legislature Approved Zero New Business Subsidies in 2025
102. ‘People are very bad at managing their own finances’
103. Mackinac Center Comment to FDA Regarding Modified Risk Tobacco Products
104. Government makes a bad Santa Claus
105. More solar energy is wrong for Michigan
106. 3 ways to rebuild Americans' trust in government
107. America’s flirtation with socialism
108. Whitmer should form a commission to review pandemic response