During the all-too-brief one-on-one contest between Nikki Haley and Donald Trump for the Republican presidential nomination, there was a good deal of analysis declaring it the last stand of the Reaganite vision for the GOP versus the MAGA takeover. That was the wishiest of wishful thinking — ...

Who knows if Joe Biden is as “angry and anxious” about his re-election prospects as a new NBC News report portrays him. It could be that it’s ordinary ill-temper from a politician prone to shouting in private (an Axios headline not too long ago dubbed Biden “old yeller”), or ...

Four years ago, government officials told us, “Stay home!” We have “15 days to slow the spread.” Days turned into months and then years, while officials chipped away at our freedoms. I have long been wary of politicians, but even I was surprised at how authoritarian many were eager ...

Nine months is a long time. It’s almost enough time to grow a whole human. It’s 180 early-morning wake-ups and late dinners. And it’s a really long time to be cut off from the lifeblood of your business during the busiest time of year. MDOT’s nine-month, $24.7-million project consists ...

Not a month goes by, it seems, when the country doesn’t have some minor cultural trend to spar over. These “debates” can be fun or not. But in almost every case, fights over these passing fixations are futile. OK. Let’s get specific. There’s that recent skirmish over something ...

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer carved out a clear position on government transparency by proposing to slash the budget for the one office in Lansing that holds lawmakers to account. The governor’s spending plan would cut funding for the Office of the Auditor General (OAG) by $8.3 million, or 28% of ...