All 2026 Publications

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1. Planning for Life Workshop
2. The Power of Ideas: The Overton Window and the American Revolution
3. A Taxing Debate in Michigan: Growth, Fairness and Trade-Offs
4. Rx Kids, Poverty Solutions and the Social Safety Net
5. Planning for Life Workshop
6. Subsidies and Setbacks
7. Ohio Supreme Court Asked to Review Union Dues Agreement Dispute
8. Zoning reform can increase housing affordability, birth rates
9. When the State Becomes Guardian: Building a Better Foster System for Michigan Children
10. Mackinac Center Hosts Evening Celebrating America’s 250 Years
11. Who watches Grand Rapids City Hall if the watchdog is muzzled?
12. Workers for Opportunity joins the fight against the Faster Labor Contracts Act
13. Matthew Sheldon v. OAPSE
14. Michigan lawmakers need to understand economics
15. An Evening with the Mackinac Center
16. Michigan can easily handle adding data centers
17. The Past is the Present
18. Public Pensions Should Serve Workers, Not Political Movements
19. Electric school bus replacement plan makes you say watt?
20. A look at Michigan’s property tax
21. Director of Education Policy
22. Rx Kids: The Promise and Some Concerns
23. Michigan is catching up on its biggest debts
24. Mackinac Center for Public Policy Public Comment on the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency’s Interim Final Rule on National Bank Non-Interest Charges and Fees and Interim Final Order Preempting the Illinois Interchange Fee Prohibition Act
25. ‘I Realized It Was a Prison Cell’
26. ‘The harsher the childcare regulations, the fewer kids people have’
27. School boards should represent the public, not silence it
28. It’s time to shut down the MEDC
29. The Power of Ideas: The Overton Window and the American Revolution
30. The Real Cost of Affordability
31. Michigan shows how we can make homeownership affordable
32. Is The World Better Off With America?
33. Commonsense Election Reforms in Michigan (And Beyond)
34. Local governments care about government power. We care about freedom
35. Workers for Opportunity celebrates Iowa win
36. Graduation rates rise while student achievement flatlines
37. Detroit: All that glitters might not remain gold
38. Director of Labor Policy
39. Michigan could not be built today
40. Think your electric bill is high?
41. Michigan legalized dental therapists in 2018, but only a few practice
42. ‘Affordable housing: No matter what they say in public, they're terrified of it’
43. Virtue-signaling with state holidays
44. Freeing Health Care Markets: State Solutions for Coverage, Costs, and Innovation
45. Make room for growth
46. Court Freezes Hidden Earmarks in Major Win for Michigan Taxpayers
47. Some Detroiters pay high property taxes, others don’t
48. Whitmer’s budget proposals do not lower costs
49. For once, Michigan said no to new business subsidies
50. Michigan should embrace zoning reform, reject housing subsidies
51. Advancement Data Specialist
52. School choice critics’ glaring double standard
53. A Choice Situation
54. Coalitions Director
55. Film Subsidies are an Expensive Flop
56. States can cure federal pharma fever
57. Detroit’s zoning history offers lessons for today
58. ‘You never talk to the people who lost the lottery, right?’
59. Unions Leverage Retirement Funds for Political Agendas
60. Unions and ESG: From Worker Representation to Shareholder Activism
61. Legislation Could Threaten Popular Small Consumer Loan Programs
62. Whitmer promised transparency and delivered gag orders
63. Oversight is a key role for local officials
64. The Power of Ideas: The Overton Window and the American Revolution
65. It’s Groundhog Day all over again on free trade
66. IMPACT March/April 2026
67. Michigan’s inflated teacher evals are failing students
68. Price hikes tied to wind and solar
70. Union Township receives recognition, but its performance underwhelms
71. Reform Michigan unemployment insurance
72. Water, Watts and Wealth: The Costs and Benefits of Data Centers in Michigan
73. Freedom notes U.S.A.: Nebraska takes over federal environmental reviews
74. ‘Let me pretend this is true, OK?’
75. ‘The difference between having a good idea and having others embrace it’
76. On housing, local vs. state control is the wrong question
77. Trump, Whitmer and the problem of emergency powers
78. What election reforms are actually possible?
79. What Michigan Can Learn About Reading From Mississippi
80. Michigan’s pandemic lockdowns need a full review
81. The False Promise of Film Incentives
82. The billion-dollar idea Detroit should consider
83. How Civility Strengthens Policy
84. The state of Whitmer’s state
85. Time to make full use of the new earmarks process
86. High gas prices don’t justify emergency powers
87. Free Market Road Show
88. Food trucks, often banned or heavily regulated, may get a chance to thrive
89. ‘If we do meet resistance from elected officials in Detroit, we’ll fund a referendum’
90. Prescription Drug Toolkit Urges States to Take a Bigger Role
91. Yes, other states are building much more housing than Michigan
92. Almost everyone agrees that municipal zoning rules are too strict
93. Where did Michigan’s surplus go?
94. Mackinac Center Applauds Bipartisan Action on Physician Licenses
95. The Free Market Remedy for Drug Pricing Ills
96. The Economic Spirit of 1776
97. Michigan’s tax competitiveness is at risk
98. Judge throws out Mackinac ferry monopoly claim
99. The Economic Spirit of 1776
100. Success of Rx Kids should prompt reevaluation of welfare programs
101. New Report: Michigan Should Follow Mississippi’s Lead on Reading
102. Rhode Island’s Cigarette Tax Hike Would Fuel Smuggling
103. Michigan’s Broadband moment: Time to focus on connections
104. Supreme Court Turns Away Mother’s Free Speech Appeal
105. Let’s fix licensing systems that lock ex-offenders out of work
106. ‘People bemoan that they can't trust the news’
107. Walter Isaacson to Headline Mackinac Center Event
108. Keep Michigan’s budget sustainable
109. Capping credit card rates unnecessary, harmful
110. Making Drug Policy Work for Patients, Not Institutions
111. Mississippi Learning
112. Michigan Must Have Affordable Reliable Electricity
113. A Lesson from St. Patrick’s Day Celebrations
114. The ideas that built America still matter
115. How Trump can make homeownership affordable
116. Limit zoning to make Michigan grow again
117. Michigan lawmakers move to protect reasonable childhood independence
118. Let’s Build Michigan: Why Housing Costs Have Spiked and How to Fix It
119. Right to compute moves forward in other states
120. Michigan taxpayers build it, but nobody comes
121. ‘All of your data has been stolen’
122. IMPACT January/February 2026
123. Cigarette smuggling increase on the docket in Washington State
124. ‘SAFE’ bills are not safe
125. Seven habits of highly civil people
126. Michigan subsidy picks are a short seller’s bonanza
127. Beware of most-favored-nation drug pricing regs
128. Tax hikes and smuggling: Will Michigan tempt scofflaws?
129. Laws have unintended consequences
130. Time to rein in old MEGA gravy train
131. The state of housing in Michigan
132. Mackinac Center partners for historic summit
133. Why Michigan needs more housing, despite a flat population
134. ‘We don't wear capes’
135. Make Michigan competitive again
136. Michigan Can’t Subsidize Its Way to Growth — It Must Build Its Way There
137. Setting the record straight on schools of choice
138. Michigan Lawmakers Introduce Housing Reform Bills
139. Lawmakers should reject sales tax holidays
140. Voters can lower their own property taxes under Michigan rules
141. I (heart) freedom, and you should too
142. Michigan only enacted 74 laws in 2025. So what?
143. Senior discount won’t solve Michigan’s property tax problem
144. Interest rates should be left to the private market
145. House bill a shot in the arm for Schools of Choice law
146. ‘A country where opportunity is still possible’
147. Licensing rules make Michigan’s health care problems worse
148. All former governors join Mackinac Center civility panel
149. Freedom Notes U.S.A.: Americans want the lights on
150. A Defining Moment for Civility
151. Rhode Island’s Cigarette Tax Hike Would Fuel Smuggling
152. Rochester Schools Trustee Sues to Protect Her Right to Speak with Constituents
153. Rochester Schools Trustee Sues to Protect Her Right to Speak with Constituents
154. Indiana chokes with new cigarette taxes
155. The meaning of America, 250 years later
156. What’s the real poverty line?
157. Grand Rapids should publish its 311 data
158. The state of housing in Michigan
159. Mackinac Center Announces 2026 Policy Priorities
160. Does Michigan Reconnect get people better paying jobs?
161. Public Policy Recommendations 2026
162. Does Michigan Reconnect get people better paying jobs?
163. Give credit where due on the roads deal
164. More solar energy is wrong for Michigan
165. Let interest rates find their market rate
166. ‘Everything exploded in the world of online teaching’
167. Want to boost Michigan? Stop punishing R&D
168. Give credit where due on the roads deal
169. We need real performance metrics for Michigan public universities
170. M.L.K.’s campaign of ideas
171. Michigan hospitals aren’t using charity program for charity
172. Before spending, ask, ‘Is this thing working?’
173. Caregivers pay SEIU dues for no real union benefits
174. It’s time for focus on the debate over subsidies to corporations
175. IMPACT November/December 2025
176. What is the role of a think tank?
177. Matthew Sheldon v. OAPSE
178. Legislature Approved Zero New Business Subsidies in 2025
179. ‘People are very bad at managing their own finances’
180. Mackinac Center Comment to FDA Regarding Modified Risk Tobacco Products
181. Government makes a bad Santa Claus
182. More solar energy is wrong for Michigan
183. 3 ways to rebuild Americans' trust in government
184. America’s flirtation with socialism
185. Whitmer should form a commission to review pandemic response