In her response to the murder of Iryna Zarutska on a light-rail train in Charlotte, North Carolina, the city's mayor demonstrated the mindset that allowed the heinous act to happen in the first place. Mayor Vi Lyles called the murder of the young Ukraine refugee woman, "a tragic situation ...
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. does not deserve his initials, as he showed in a Senate hearing that revealed a Shakespearean streak of villainy in the health and human services secretary. Senator after senator asked straight questions about his broken promises on vaccine policy. Two are Republican ...
An age-old conundrum regarding raising children is the issue of nature versus nurture. That is, do genes determine a child's success in life, or is it the environment in which that child is raised? Or, even more fundamentally, is intelligence genetic, or can education increase IQ? James J. ...
As I am organizing and decluttering with people, I find myself moving items from “throw away” to “donate." If something can be used by someone else, why not donate it instead of throwing it in a landfill? I also think it makes people happy to think someone else will use things they no ...
Michigan has always been a working-class state, and much of our story can be told in terms of labor, business, and economics. Today, Michigan is at a crossroads. The auto industry is not what it was, unions are weaker, the top 10% is wealthier, inequality among class, race and gender persists, ...
The autopen has been around in one form or another since Thomas Jefferson was president. According to shapell.org, "In 2005, George W. Bush was the first president to enquire with the Department of Justice if it was constitutional for the president to sign a bill using the autopen." He was told ...