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Opinion

AG warns tax filing time can spur identity theft

Editorial

With the April 15 tax filing deadline less than a week away, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel is reissuing her consumer alert on tax-related identity theft and urging residents to protect themselves. Tax-related identity theft occurs when someone uses stolen personal information to file a ...

Budget request excessive

Letters To The Editor

To the Journal editor: President Trump has sent Congress a request for $1.5 trillion for the Defense Department budget for the fiscal year 2027. This is more than a 50 percent increase over this year’s budget. The United States currently spends four times more than China, which has the next ...

Why Trump’s antics don’t work on our allies

Columns

It is among the most familiar patterns of the Trump era. First, the president says or does something weird, rude or otherwise norm-defying. Some elected Republicans object and the response from Trump and his minions is to shoot the messenger. The dynamic holds constant whether it's big (Jan. 6 ...

Trump tells US Postal Service to create a federal voter list

Editorial

Can the President order the U.S. Postal Service not to deliver mail he doesn’t like? Add this to the list of, er, innovative questions that President Donald Trump is posing to the courts. On March 31, he signed an executive action to create a federal list of people pre-approved to vote by ...

Did you really think Trump would lower prices?

Columns

Donald Trump's assault on our democratic institutions did not stop voters from giving him a second term. The top reason they cited for reelecting him was the economy, notably their unhappiness over high prices. During the campaign, Trump promised to "bring prices down, starting on Day One." ...

Pope Leo’s flawed war doctrine

Columns

Pope Leo XIV used part of his Palm Sunday message to castigate the United States for attempting to stop Iran from becoming a nuclear power and threatening the world with mass destruction. In doing so, the "American Pope" confused the real enemy in the war. Addressing thousands in St. Peter's ...