Author Sydney Gurewitz Clemens wrote, “Art has the role in education of helping children become like themselves instead of more like everyone else.” That uniqueness is on full display this month at Northern Michigan University’s DeVos Art Museum at its annual Children’s ...

President Donald Trump has identified real problems, but he's abusing his power in trying to correct them. Perhaps the most frustrating thing about being a conservative critic of Trumpism is that you often start by agreeing with Trumpworld about ends while disagreeing about means. This ...

Words matter. When the media points out Trump's "potential conflicts of interest," as it has in recent days when describing Trump's growing crypto enterprise, it doesn't come close to telling the public what's really going on -- unprecedented paybacks and self-dealing by the president of the ...

Will Donald Trump have Chicago to kick around anymore? That question, an update of Richard Nixon's memorable farewell to news reporters as he dropped out of the California governor's race in 1962, came to mind on the heels of some unusually welcome news about violent crime in Chicago. The ...

The White House lawn was festooned for the past week with mug shots of supposed illegal immigrant criminals the administration has arrested or deported. It formed a backdrop for "Border Czar" Tom Homan's threats from the briefing room warning that every illegal immigrant within our borders ...

"It is the policy of the United States to eliminate the use of disparate-impact liability in all contexts to the maximum degree possible to avoid violating the Constitution, Federal civil rights laws, and basic American ideals." Those words, the operative section of "Restoring Equality of ...