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Opinion

Choice to not drink becoming more socially acceptable

Columns

By FROMA HARROP Syndicated columnist For anyone aiming to cut back drinking, January’s arrival times perfectly. Some may have simply overdone it through the long holiday stretch, when alcohol seemed piped into any vaguely celebratory event. Some may worry that they’re beginning to ...

Trump’s reaction to the Reiners’ deaths disturbing

Editorial

It’s time to ask the question plainly: Has Donald Trump finally, fully lost it? The latest indication that Trump is no longer just instinctively belligerent and cruel, but perhaps is experiencing something even more psychologically alarming, came on Dec. 15, in the form of (what else?) a ...

Give the classics another chance now that you’ve grown up

Columns

By MICHAEL BARONE Syndicated columnist After Christmas is over, and the sunrises start getting earlier and the sunsets later, there are still two months of scarce daylight and lowering skies ahead. Here’s a suggestion for how to fill the gloomy hours with uplift: read. Read some great ...

Scarf-hat war at least produces one winner

Columns

By TRACY BECKERMAN Syndicated columnist I am a scarf person, but I am married to a non-scarf person. Conversely, my husband is a hat person, and I am not a hat person. He says scarves are itchy and make him look like he has no chin. I say hats ruin my hair and make my head look like Charlie ...

State stresses ‘critical role’ of children’s vaccines

Editorial

Michigan’s chief medical executive, Dr. Natasha Bagdasarian, has issued a standing recommendation regarding children’s vaccines, advising health care providers and families to follow the child and adolescent immunization schedule produced by the American Academy of Pediatrics or the ...

Let there be light because we need Him

Columns

By ERICK ERICKSON Syndicated columnist “Let there be light,” said the voice opening scripture eons before he cried out, pushed out of his mother’s womb. The light bringer brought light into the world in the middle of the dark of night and on the day he died, in the middle of the day, ...