While growing up this was one of my favorite times of the year – Catalog Season. Sears and Roebuck, Montgomery Wards and Spiegel catalogs arrived. Each a couple of inches thick with all the stuff a young lad could need or desire. Over the next month, I’d search those catalogs and make a ...

In times of national emergency, should the Supreme Court dictate America's grand strategy and international economic policies? This question confronts the justices this week in Learning Resources v. Trump, a case that puts the president's tariff powers to the test. If President Donald Trump ...

Standing in the restored longleaf pine forest of the Nokuse Preserve in northwest Florida, I learned that it borders Eglin Air Force Base. At first glance it felt insignificant, but I soon understood that their close proximity was strategic and collaborative. In the middle of a government ...

When Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth ordered the cancellation of any official observance of "cultural awareness" months in the military service, I immediately wondered what it would mean for the legacy of Milton Olive. In case you didn't know, Milton Lee Olive III was the first Black ...

Donald Trump has trampled on another taboo, and it's a good thing. The president said in a Truth Social post that the United States will begin "immediately" testing our "Nuclear Weapons" on "an equal basis" with Russia and China. It's not clear what this means exactly. Trump could be ...

The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down Of the big lake they called Gitche Gumee In the fourth grade my class learned about thousands of years of Michigan history from the glaciers that carved out the Great Lakes to the Anishinaabe natives navigating the unprecedented introduction to ...