Sten’s National Articles

Founder and CEO of the RI Center for Freedom & Prosperity and a former big-league baseball player with a degree in economics from Harvard University, Mike Stenhouse has been widely published in recent years by major news organizations:

RI”s Bogus Climate Lawsuit Will Only Cost Consumers – July 2024, Washington Examiner

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Education Supremacists Adopt CRT-laden Social Studies Standards in Rhode Island

National Effort Thwarted, DHS Funds ‘Mary Poppins’-Style ‘Ministry of Truth’ in Rhode Island

Mike Stenhouse / March 08, 2023 : Not to be deterred by its embarrassing failure to carry out its 2022 national “Disinformation Governance Board” plan, the federal Department of Homeland Security has… Read More

Non-Citizen Voting Will Create a Constitutional Crisis in Rhode Island

MIKE STENHOUSE February 24, 2023 ; If some state lawmakers get their wish, Rhode Island could also become a sanctuary state for illegal voters.

No, It’s Not the Economy, Stupid GOP. For Urban Voters, It’s Schools and Parental Rights.

Mike Stenhouse / November 22, 2022; Many conservatives were disappointed by the 2022 midterm election results, both nationally and here in my home state of Rhode Island. It’s important to look… Read More

What Happened When Rhode Island Rushed to Make It Easier to Vote (and Cheat)

Mike Stenhouse / September 07, 2022; Are corrupt election officials attempting to rig elections in Rhode Island? Or are the secretary of state and the Board of Elections utterly incompetent? Either… Read More

How Should Rhode Island Respond to the Great Barrington ‘Awokening’?

Mike Stenhouse / May 13, 2022;In recent years, the woke left has taken control in the affluent small town of Barrington, Rhode Island, dominating the seats of power on both… Read More

The Left’s War on Children

Mike Stenhouse / May 09, 2022; What are we doing to our children? The leaked news that the Supreme Court may be about to overturn its controversial 1973 Roe v. Wade… Read More

States Should Decouple From California’s Oppressive Emissions Policies

Mike Stenhouse / April 08, 2022′In a “let them eat cake”-style speech given last month, President Joe Biden suggested that if motorists switched to electric vehicles, they could spare themselves… Read More

Reparations Won’t Help Providence

MIKE STENHOUSE June 10, 2022; In Rhode Island, the superior alternative is private-school choice in the form of educational-scholarship accounts.

How Rhode Island Stopped a Wrongheaded ‘Universal Vaccine Mandate’

MIKE STENHOUSE April 30, 2022; Parental outcry killed a bill that would have mandated universal Covid vaccination, with monthly fines and doubled income tax as punishment.

Pro Baseball Players Rejected ‘Political Supremacists.’ Voters Should, Too.

Mike Stenhouse / March 18, 2022;The lyrics from Bruce Springsteen’s song “Badlands” have seldom been more relevant: “Poor man wanna be rich, rich man wanna be king, and the king… Read More

A Blatant, Corrupt Power Grab by Rhode Island’s Governor

MIKE STENHOUSE September 1, 2021; After it looked like the legislature was finally about to reclaim its authority, Governor McKee plunged the state back into unilateral rule.

A ‘Reparations’ Plan Designed to Help the Activist Left, Not Minorities

MIKE STENHOUSE July 31, 2021; Providence’s municipal-reparations scheme helps left-wing activist groups, not students trapped in Rhode Island’s union-dominated schools.

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