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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
It was almost six years ago -- during the COVID-19 pandemic -- that then-Attorney General Bill Barr called a "virtual press conference" to announce that the Justice Department was taking action against Nicolas Maduro of Venezuela. "Today, I am here to talk about the former Maduro regime and ...