And so some angry, mentally ill person decides to shoot random human beings for no particular reason. Although mass killings have become commonplace -- the one at Michigan State University was the 67th this year, and we’re only in February -- something feels different this time. It’s not ...

Some people suspect that Donald Trump’s “Make America Great Again” camp is barely a step away from “Make America White Again.” They found a lot of food for that thought in the MAGA world’s reaction to this year’s Super Bowl pregame show. The show included Sheryl Lee Ralph of ...

Democrats in Lansing should not take shortcuts around regular order lawmaking simply because they hold a majority of the Legislature and control of the governor’s office. They are inappropriately interpreting their micro advantages in the legislative chambers as a mandate to ram through ...

A forthcoming biography of Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) reportedly includes the former presidential candidate’s view that his party is sliding toward “authoritarianism.” The book, “Romney: A Reckoning,” is scheduled for publication in October. The Guardian has published a story about its ...

“February is the border between winter and spring.” - Terri Guillemets “Go to the winter woods: listen there, look, watch, and ‘the dead months’ will give you a subtler secret than any you have yet found in the forest.” - William Sharp (writing as Fiona Macleod), Where the Forest ...

“Let me ride, ride, ride I got to feel free inside,” – Kevin Cronin I saw some footprints in the snow, where they went, I did not know. I decided I would follow them – up the hill ahead and down the other side. Underneath the mighty maples I proceeded, beneath the more delicate ...