A new state budget season has begun and here at the Michigan League for Public Policy, we'e urging the Michigan Legislature to make sure students in our state have the support they need to thrive in their classrooms. That starts with stronger investments in our K-12 education system. While ...
To help celebrate my recent birthday, a small group of friends asked me what I’d like to do to mark the milestone. There are a couple of quietly beautiful things about that question. First, they wanted to take time out of their lives to celebrate me. That alone feels overwhelming and ...
Here's a recent story from the Chicago Tribune that jumped off the page when I read it. Northwestern University is finishing up the construction of a new $800 million football stadium. This is supposedly a nonprofit "educational" entity. Uh-huh. Northwestern -- an "institution of higher learning" located outside of Chicago -- is flush with cash. It has an endowment of nearly $15 billion, and the tax-free donations keep flowing in. Almost all the $800 million -- which rivals the cost of professional sports arenas with luxury skyboxes and opulent decor -- for the lavish Taj Mahal ...
Americans who remember how an incident in Minneapolis six years ago plunged the whole country into a summer of rioting -- then years of elevated criminal violence -- should think carefully about where the protests over the death of Renee Good are leading. Like the killing of George Floyd, Good's tragedy is being exploited for a political purpose, with the radical activists who then called for defunding the police now demanding an end to Immigration and Customs Enforcement -- not only the agency, ICE, but the enforcement of the nation's democratically enacted immigration laws. It's the ...
Finally, the United States will follow through on its NATO commitments. That'd be the cheeky interpretation of President Donald Trump's announcement, via Truth Social, that he wants the U.S. defense budget to be $1.5 trillion. This would represent a stunning 50% increase over the current ...
Surely, I have plenty of company in wanting to jump off the Donald Trump distraction express. Rage is its fuel. A weekend isn't short enough to contain the demands on attention. Just this last two-day break encountered: The cinematic ICE raids in Minneapolis. Threats against Exxon for its ...
