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Editorials and columns

How big is MAGA, really?

As we survey the wreckage of Trump's second term, it is often said that half the country voted for this, or worse, half the country is fine with this. That isn't true. MAGA is a bit of a moving target, but a recent Economist/YouGov poll found that only 27% of all voters described themselves ...

From typewriters to truth: Journalist Betty Baye knows what this moment demands

I had just sat down with my notes for writing this column when the news came through that journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort had been arrested in Minnesota. My notes were from a luncheon I had attended the previous day. National Association of Black Journalists hall of fame columnist Betty ...

Dolly Parton Imagination Library

New groundbreaking research – the largest dataset ever conducted on shared book reading – reaffirms that Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library significantly strengthens early literacy skills for children in Northeast Michigan alongside children across the five other countries, reinforcing ...

Summer camp fire

One summer when I was 12 going on 13, I spent a week at the greatest place in the world: Camp Geneva, on the shores of Lake Michigan. This was my fourth summer, and the first entering Geneva Pines, the middle school side of camp. The first day at camp was always a little tiring. Checking in ...

The First Dad’s laugh

By now you have learned that Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is coping with the loss of her 85 year dad who was more than just her father. She recalls that when she decided to run for governor he was "so supportive" and helped to guide her through that decision and on top of being her trusted political ...

Pollsters don’t ask if Anti-ICE activists have ‘gone too far’

The unrest in Minneapolis has died down, and the Trump administration is pulling 700 immigration-enforcement offers out of the area. But all of the national media scrutiny has obsessed over Team Trump. They have rarely acted to "hold government accountable" when the governing comes from ...