Michigan lawmakers have consistently failed to address our state’s structural revenue problem for decades. Michigan simply does not raise enough in taxes, and lawmakers as a whole have been apprehensive to adequately address it. While more could be done on the revenue side, Michigan has some ...
Right before the midterm elections, President Donald Trump announced that the United States would stop providing military aid to Israel, forcing the most dedicated Israel-obsessed antisemites to declare that this, too, was evidence of nothing more than Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's latest scheme. However, as debate swirls over what this means for America and one of its most consequential foreign policy relationships in the world, it's worth pushing back on the underlying premise of all military aid: that America has been manipulated into giving up the goods. Nothing could be ...
American voters have spoken. And in our 250th anniversary year, it's encouraging to know that our Constitutional order has survived another election. Yes, we finalize our political battles in the private voting booth. It appears yet again that the majority of American voters prefer a ...
Politics has high enough stakes without the losers being sent to prison -- or losing their heads. Jailing opponents or condemning them to death is what dictatorships do, not democracies. But times are changing, rapidly, and democracy isn't what it used to be, thanks to a vengeful spirit that's taken hold from Brazil to South Korea, and we've had a taste of it as well. As Americans think about what's in store for the next two years after a new Congress is sworn in next January, with the 2028 presidential election now on the horizon, we should take heed of just how far "lawfare" is ...
On a recent afternoon, April Polk was driving to a doctor's appointment when her assistant flagged something in her business inbox: a grant application, the kind of funding opportunity a small retailer cannot afford to miss. The assistant offered to fill it out while she drove."She's like, ...
After former President John F. Kennedy's assassination, the new president, Lyndon Johnson, was being urged by Democrats to name Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy as his vice-presidential running mate in the 1964 election. Problem was, Johnson despised Kennedy, and was going to make him his ...
